Guardians of Peace

Community

Everyone who responds to the surge of energy they feel when they hear that conflict itself can be an art of peace. 

Circle

Everyone who contributes directly to the governance and development of the Guardians of Peace as an entity.

Partnership

Everyone who chooses the public role "Guardian" and trains with others in specific physical, emotional, and intellectual process arts through which their guardianship is realized.

Idea

"Peace is conflict done well"

... is being carefully practiced, learned, and modeled in our training. Rather than sell a fantasy of Safety we guard the literal and metaphorical places where peace is a practice, lives, and thrives.

Through martial non-violence (sm) we work to thaw the cold-hearted and fearful machinations that clutch for Security at the expense of others. Fears about attack, victimization, failure, and dying are often quite reasonable. Locating them in an abstract "enemy" or "evil" most often results in being less rather than more prepared to respond well.

There are shadows for sale today, possibly more so than ever before. They whispers that human beings can have relationships free of conflict by crushing literal enemies, suppressing terror and dissent, and avoiding friction. People who practice peace know that the resistance felt when the door of conflict is pushed open comes from the creative friction that can power hope, illuminate dreams for the future, and drive the adaptation necessary for our survival as a species.

We will be a training partnership of individuals committed to working well with conflict no matter its root or character.

Working well with conflict will reliably lead to mysterious difficulties. Often we will lack the expertise to create a useful response in a specific situation. Awareness of this certainty makes us more rather than less able to function. It can and will also lead to:

• building community on purpose to have the support we need to practice this work authentically,
• learning to tell (speak) the differences that makes human beings work,
• readiness to make a difference (needed departures from business as usual) to improve the felt quality of life,
• a growing awareness that best practices in all dealings need movement in the directions of sustainability that is profoundly relational (ecological, psychological, mythological)
  
• and much more as the popular imagination takes up the ideas involved...
  

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