Our approach is simple but demanding – always remember that within you, you have and are the key for peace.

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Be The Peace Community :

 

Be The peace community is when at least 10 people living in one country or ‘independent’ territory agree to be members of Be The Peace and abide by its Vision and Mission.

 

Within a Be The Peace Community, there can be Team. To start  Be The Peace Community requires a member to be an active member for at least 2 months and have done a Be The Peace Initiative for at least a month.

 

How to be a member of Be The Peace?

 

When you believe in our mission and vision,  you are a member! We kindly ask you to sign Be The Peace membership pledge. A member should be 18years old. Those who want to join or are beneficiaries of Be The Peace before 18years are called Be The Peace mentees. If you want to be a member of Be The Peace, kindly reach out to us at info@bethepeaceglobal.org

 

Peace begins with you

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• This is the time for you to consistently remind yourself that you were born good like any other human in the world.

• Consistently, remember  that your existence in the world is important and precious

• Consistently, try to seek positivity in and from all the experiences of life,

• Consistently, try and do something you like something that gives you joy

• Consistently, try and avoid things that hurt your body, mind, spirit, and those of other humans. When it happens, remember joy can come from confession and forgiveness.

• Keep a daily memory  of the moments, experiences, and people that bring peace throughout your day

• Remember to step up and step back

• Consistently, take some time to meditate on peace: 1minute, 5 minutes, an hour…. a day is all that is needed

• Find moments to  stop and breathe and focus on peace throughout your day

• Find some times to be in nature

• Remember to overcome hate with love, suffering with kindness, hurt with compassion, mistakes with confession, and trauma with empathy

• Remember to be joyful

 

Extend peace to your family and friends

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• Treat every human as a human like you. Thus, give what you wish to be given.

• Train yourself to live by giving: Give some of your time, possessions, wealth, kindness,

• Train yourself to listen to understand other humans rather than always listen to respond.

• Remember to find ways to display kindness

• Give more to those who need  your support the most (less advantaged people)

• Encourage open, honest, and compassionate dialogue

• Explore differing opinions/viewpoints with empathy and understanding

• Communicate to find a connection and common ground

• Consistently, try to see the good in everyone

• Share from the heart

• Accept differing opinions/viewpoints without judgment

• Spend quality time together e.g. listening, learning, and loving each other

• Start now and do something that you think is an act of kindness

 

Extend peace within your local community

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• Start  Be The Peace Community, Initiative, Event.

• Learn from serving for peace not from influencing

• Ask for support if you need to

• Encourage open, honest, and compassionate dialogue about how to be the peace

• Identify projects and initiatives within your community that supports collaboration, growth and peace

• Seek to learn about other’s cultures and avoid judgments, generalization, and appropriation.

• Look to find ways of modeling what peace means to you; look to extend peace to others

• Extend peace by serving

 

   Extend peace beyond your world

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• Workshops that support open, conscious, compassionate dialogue to seek understanding and common ground.

• Art projects that extend past your local community and/or circle of friends to include others

• Projects that support others in need e.g. food pantries, walk-a-thons, gardens of peace, etc.