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100 Ideas
for Creating a More Peaceful World
Creating world peace takes many forms, but surely it begins
with individuals. It continues
to be the most significant challenge of humankind and requires the
efforts of each of us. Here are 100 ideas for creating a more peaceful
world.
- Be generous with your smiles.
- Commit daily acts of kindness.
- Respect the Earth.
- Walk in a forest.
- Plant a tree.
- Contemplate a mountain.
- Don't pollute.
- Live
simply.
- Skip
a meal each week, and send $5.00 to an organization helping the
hungry.
- Erase a border in your mind.
- Teach peace to children.
- Read
Chief Seattle's
Letter to the President.
- Be
honest.
- Demand honesty from your government.
- Think about consequences.
- Commit yourself to nonviolence.
- Support nonviolent solutions to global problems.
- Speak up for a healthy planet.
- Demand reductions in military expenditures.
- Be
fair.
- Pledge allegiance to the Earth and to its varied life forms.
- Think for yourself.
- Ask
questions.
- Recognize your unique potential.
- Join
an organization working for peace.
- Be
less materialistic.
- Be
more loving.
- Support an Arms
Trade Code of Conduct.
- Oppose all weapons of mass destruction.
- Sign
the Abolition
2000 International Petition.
- Work
for an international ban on land mines.
- Use
your special talents for a more harmonious world.
- Don't eat animals.
- Help
the poor.
- Fight against militarism.
- Study the lives of peace heroes.
- Help
create a community peace park or garden.
- Commemorate the International
Day of Peace in your community (the third Tuesday in September).
- Help
strengthen the United Nations.
- Support the creation of an International Criminal Court hold
individual leaders accountable for crimes against peace, crimes
against humanity, war crimes, and genocide.
- Read
the Universal Declaration
of Human Rights, and demand that your government live by it.
- Be
aware of the rights of future generations.
- Sign
the Cousteau
Society Bill of Rights for Future Generations.
- Make
decisions as though all life truly matters. It does!
- Join
an action alert network.
- Make
your voice heard by speaking out for peace.
- Laugh more.
- Play
with a child.
- Support health, education and the arts over more weapons.
- Help
educate the next generation to be compassionate and responsible.
- Accept personal responsibility for creating a better world.
- Sing.
- Write a poem.
- Organize a church service on the theme of peace.
- Learn about another culture.
- Help
someone.
- Support the UN
Children's Fund (UNICEF).
- Climb a mountain.
- Clear your mind.
- Breathe deeply.
- Sip
tea.
- Express your views to government officials.
- Fight for the environment.
- Celebrate Earth Day.
- Think like an astronaut, recognizing that we have only one
Earth.
- Be
constructive.
- Ring
a bell for peace.
- Plant seeds of peace. Work in a garden.
- Change a potential enemy into a friend.
- Watch the movie Amazing
Grace and Chuck.
- Share.
- Be
more peaceful.
- Send
a note of appreciation.
- Tell
your friends how much they matter.
- Say
"I love you" more.
- Don't tolerate prejudice.
- Demand more from your elected officials.
- Walk
by the ocean, a river, or a lake.
- Recognize that all humans have the right to life.
- Respect the dignity of each person.
- Be
a leader in the struggle for human decency.
- Watch the movie King
of Hearts.
- Send
sunflowers to world leaders, and call for a world free of nuclear
weapons.
- Oppose technologies that harm the environment.
- Lose
an argument to a loved one.
- Read
Hiroshima
by John Hersey.
- Walk
softly on the Earth.
- Appreciate the power of the sun.
- Speak out for global disarmament.
- Support a stronger world order.
- Teach nonviolence by example.
- Remember that "No man is an Island."
- Spend time in nature.
- Boycott war toys.
- Be
thankful for the miracle of life.
- Read
All
Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque.
- Remind your leaders that peace matters.
- Oppose violence in television programming for children.
- Listen to Beethoven's Ode to Joy.
- Celebrate peace.
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