Allison, Author at The Peace Alliance https://peacealliance.org/author/allison/ Educate, advocate, and mobilize for Peace! Tue, 03 Jul 2018 16:36:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://peacealliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/TPA-logo-favicon.ico Allison, Author at The Peace Alliance https://peacealliance.org/author/allison/ 32 32 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and The Peace Alliance Five Cornerstones of Peace https://peacealliance.org/united-nations-sustainable-development-goals-and-the-peace-alliance-five-cornerstones-of-peace/ Tue, 26 Dec 2017 05:37:13 +0000 https://peacealliance.org/?p=6233 The 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s) range from no poverty, clean water, and gender equality. They serve as a framework for partnership for all citizens of this planet. 

Outlined here are the 5 SDG’s which align with The Peace Alliance Five Cornerstones of Peacebuilding and set an ambitious agenda for change: to develop powerful partnerships between individuals, organizations and governments who are adopting shared values and principles that relate to something bigger than ourselves to safeguard a global culture of peace. 

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]]> DoP Accomplishments in 2017 https://peacealliance.org/dop-accomplishments-in-2017/ Sat, 23 Dec 2017 03:50:11 +0000 https://peacealliance.org/?p=6230 Peacebuilding is to make real our vision for peace.  Despite a national climate of divisiveness, doubt and fear, the Department of Peacebuilding (DoP) Campaign continued in 2017 to work for a DoP and a culture of compassion, inclusion, respect and peace.

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]]> Staying Woke, Getting Civic, & Building Peace at the CA Dem Statewide Meeting Nov. 17-19 https://peacealliance.org/staying-woke-getting-civic-building-peace-at-the-ca-dem-statewide-meeting-nov-17-19/ Thu, 07 Dec 2017 00:24:26 +0000 https://peacealliance.org/?p=6221 The CA Department of Peacebuilding Campaign (DoP) and the Martin Luther King Jr. Freedom Center “got civic” together at the CA Democratic Party (CDP) Executive Board meeting in Millbrae from November 17-19, 2017.

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]]> Connecting To Know Peace During DC Advocacy Days & New Cosponsors to Peace Legislation https://peacealliance.org/connecting-to-know-peace-during-dc-advocacy-days-new-cosponsors-to-peace-legislation/ Sun, 03 Dec 2017 15:21:51 +0000 https://peacealliance.org/?p=6218 We take peacebuilding to Washington each year because, as one San Diego high school student said, “We have never known peace in our lives.”

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]]> Letters to DC: San Diego Community Implores Legislators to Make Peace a National Priority https://peacealliance.org/san-diego-community-implores-legislators-to-make-peace-a-national-priority/ Sun, 03 Dec 2017 15:17:35 +0000 https://peacealliance.org/?p=6214 Leading up to the Department of Peacebuilding Campaign’s Advocacy Days in Washington, DC, San Diego students and community leaders, and a student from Los Angeles wrote heartfelt letters to members of Congress imploring them to prioritize peace and establish a cabinet-level Department of Peacebuilding (DoP) now.  We delivered those messages to over one hundred Representatives and Senators in October.

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]]> Peace Alliance September 2017 Newsletter https://peacealliance.org/peace-alliance-september-2017-newsletter/ Thu, 21 Sep 2017 03:10:38 +0000 https://peacealliance.org/?p=6135 Welcome to our monthly e Newsletter with updates from The Peace Alliance's Leadership Council! Catch up on what is happening in each of our Peacebuilding Cornerstones and Advocacy efforts in September 2017!

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]]> CA Dem. Party Endorses DoP 2017 Act https://peacealliance.org/cdp-endorses-dop-2017-act/ Tue, 12 Sep 2017 03:18:28 +0000 https://peacealliance.org/?p=6116 The California Democratic Party (CDP) endorsed the Department of Peacebuilding Act of 2017 (HR 1111) and adopted the CA Department of Peacebuilding’s “Resolution to Budget for Peacebuilding for People and the Environment” as we took our message of peace and compassion to the CDP statewide Executive Board meeting in Anaheim from 8/25 – 8/27/17, where the CDP also celebrated the 97th anniversary of women securing the right to vote.

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]]> Registration open for DC Lobby Days 2017. Tell Congress to make peacebuilding a priority! https://peacealliance.org/registration-open-for-dc-lobby-days-2017-tell-congress-to-make-peacebuilding-a-priority/ Sun, 06 Aug 2017 23:51:10 +0000 https://peacealliance.org/?p=6080 Lobby Days 2017: A Washington D.C. experience focused on lobbying for H. R. 1111, the Department of Peacebuilding Act of 2017. Please gather your family, friends and neighbors and join us as a significant citizen peacebuilding and nonviolence presence in DC this year.

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]]> Peacebuilding and Pie Go Together https://peacealliance.org/peacebuilding-and-pie-go-together/ Fri, 28 Jul 2017 02:03:01 +0000 https://peacealliance.org/?p=6061 During an extended 2017 Mother’s Day celebration, we advocated for a U.S. Department of Peacebuilding (HR 1111) and other peacebuilding initiatives with legislators throughout the country with Mother’s Day “Peace wants a piece of the federal budget pie” meetings, letters and pie drop-offs with members of Congress and Senators in at least CA, GA, IL, MA, ME and OH. 

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]]> Oakland Gets a Dept. of Violence Prevention https://peacealliance.org/oakland-gets-a-dept-of-violence-prevention/ Wed, 28 Jun 2017 04:37:02 +0000 https://peacealliance.org/?p=6011 The City of Oakland did a good thing on June 20, 2017. It created a Department of Violence Prevention (DVP), with a Chief of Violence Prevention reporting directly to the city administration and a mandate to work directly with victims of violent crime -- and those who are most likely to be future victims or perpetrators of violent crime – by pursuing a public health approach to dramatically reduce violent crime and end the cycle of trauma in impacted communities.

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