Elsewhere on this site various writers make the case that Peacebuilders need the companionship of fellow Peacebuilders in order to become empowered to study, reflect and act for peace.
There is an interactive website that promotes that kind of companionship around a definition of peace that combines our intellectual understandings with an unseen (spiritual but real) appreciation of what it means to express what the Dali Lama calls loving kindness.
The website is www.propeace.net. It is not a polemical partisan broadcasting station. It is basically a bulletin board for communication among those who hold, or are exploring, a profound commitment to peace, far deeper than simply being opposed to war.
One of the glories of this website is the chance to read the musings of the worldwide propeace community and to stay up to date on Susan’s campaign throughout South Carolina to help establish a US Department of Peace. See www.thepeacealliance.org.
Susan’s postings help us to get our heads around a profound and revolutionary understanding of what it means to evolve from antiwar to propeace. Her views on society and public affairs are mind-boggling enough to stir us from apathy and free us from the inherited unconscious belief that violence is the ultimate solution to life’s problems.
Yes, we need the companionship that we find in small groups, and we need to tap into the reservoir of fresh insights and new friends that can come to us by participating in www.propeace.net.
