Why a Board of Peace?
There has been much recent hype about an exclusive billion dollar club of globetrotting elites doing big things on the world stage to promote peace. But we at Board of Peace believe there should be a readily accessible club, open to all, to provide information, education, and advice for regular people and small groups interested in promoting peace in small ways in their communities.
Peace comes not through top down edicts but bottom up, through small, daily actions by people in their communities, by talking instead of fighting, by changing attitudes through peaceful, respectful discourse.
Our Board of Peace is not a board; it is a small organization trying to help people think about how they can promote peace and non-violence in their everyday lives, including by contributing to or partnering with organizations that promote peace, engaging with their communities, and participating in civil activities, demonstrations, and peaceful protests.
"Let me say as I've always said, and I will always continue to say, that riots are socially destructive and self-defeating. I'm still convinced that nonviolence is the most potent weapon available to oppressed people in their struggle for freedom and justice. I feel that violence will only create more social problems than they will solve."
Martin Luther King, Jr., "The Other America" at Stanford University, April 14, 1967