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Congressman Dennis Kucinich of the House of Representatives has proposed legislation to form a new U.S. Department of Peace. The mission for the new U.S. Department of Peace includes:

1. Hold peace as an organizing principle in our society
   
2. Endeavor to promote justice and democratic principles to expand human rights
   
3. Strengthen non-military means of peacemaking
   
4. Work to create peace, prevent violence, divert from armed conflict, use field-tested programs, and develop new structures in non-violent intervention, mediation, peaceful resolution of conflict, and structured mediation of conflict
   
5. Address matters both domestic and international in scope
   
6. Submit to the President recommendations for reductions in weapons of mass destruction, and make annual reports to the President on the sale of arms from the United States to other nations, with analysis of the impact of such sales on the defense of the United States and how such sales effect peace
   
7. Encourage the development of initiatives from local communities, religious groups, and nongovernmental organizations
   
8. Facilitate the development of peace summits at which parties to a conflict may gather under carefully prepared conditions to promote non-violent communication and mutually beneficial solutions
   
9. Develop new programs that relate to the societal challenges of school violence, guns, racial or ethnic violence, violence against gays and lesbians, and police-community relations disputes
   
10. Sponsor country and regional conflict prevention and dispute resolution initiatives, create special task forces, and draw on local, regional, and national expertise to develop plans and programs for addressing the root sources of conflict in troubled areas
    
11. Provide for the training of all United States personnel who administer postconflict reconstruction and demobilization in war-torn societies
    
12. Sponsor country and regional conflict prevention and dispute resolution initiatives, create special task forces, and draw on local, regional, and national expertise to develop plans and programs for addressing the root sources of conflict in troubled areas
    A campaign has started to create a U.S. Department of Peace.
    
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