Our Vision

Peace Through Action® USA strives toward a nation abundant with peaceful people choosing peaceful practices and creating peaceful places. Be Peace. Choose Peace. Create Peace.

Our Values

Peace Through Action® USA maintains that interpersonal peace is achieved when…

• Accountability—people make and honor commitments to demonstrate consistent positive behavior toward others. We pledge to be accountable and transparent to our stakeholders, including operating according to the law and our corporation documents and policies and wisely stewarding the time, talent, and resources gifted to us.
• Belonging—people feel safe in, connected to, and valued by their social groups. We will nurture an organization culture in which our people bond around our mission, enjoy collegiality, and hold an equal right to recommend changes for our improvement and growth. We will encourage the people, organizations, and communities we reach to adopt broad-minded attitudes and cultivate welcoming climates.
• Community-Centrism—people claim a responsibility for overcoming the aggression and violence that are most proximate to them. There is no single solution to social distress. We will support the people, organizations, and communities we reach in identifying, practicing, and sustaining peaceful solutions that are best suited to their unique circumstances.
• Collaboration—people work together toward the intention of peace for all. We will avail ourselves of knowledge generated by other peacebuilders, share our own expertise and lived experiences with others, and amplify the efforts of people, organizations, and communities with common purpose to ours.
• Compassion—people hold empathy for others who suffer from or have been harmed by aggression and violence and then take action to help them alleviate their suffering and repair the harm. We will practice compassion toward our own people and encourage its exercise by the people, organizations, and communities we reach.
• Equity—people enjoy equally safe environments and harmonious relationships regardless of their identity, status, or life circumstance. Some people and communities experience aggression and violence more than others. Others face unequal access to violence prevention and peace promotion resources and services. We will prioritize in our mission delivery the people, organizations, and communities most lacking in peace and access to peace practices so that all may benefit from the safety, belonging, and justice which peace affords.
• Excellence—people set expectations of consistent positive and healthy behaviors for themselves and others and live those expectations with integrity. We will promote peace practices with known success, apply our best effort toward achieving high performance, and encourage the same vigor from the people, organizations, and communities we reach.
• Inclusion—people are valued for their unique identities, life circumstances, and gifts and acknowledged for having diverse motivations behind their action-taking. We will welcome all people, organizations, and communities to join us in accomplishing our mission.
• Learning—people possess both the motivation to improve their knowledge, attitudes, and peace skills and the capability to make such improvements. We will establish a culture that inspires curiosity and creativity, supports the continued development of our own people, insists upon continuous improvement in our effectiveness, and encourages growth in the people, organizations, and communities we reach.
• Persistence—people hold firm in the quest for peace. We will build our organization for endurance. We will help the people, organizations, and communities we reach sustain their peace practices and community peacebuilding efforts.
• Safety—people are protected from individuals, organizations, communities, policies, and systems that inflict aggression and violence. We will achieve and maintain an organization culture and practice of safety and of freedom from aggression and violence. We will urge the people, organizations, and communities we reach to ensure physical and psychological safety in their private relationships and public places.
• Social Justice—people receive equal economic, environmental, legal, political, and social rights and opportunities. We will advocate for and will encourage the people, organizations, and communities we reach to press for a society in which all people enjoy a set of universal rights, accept a set of universal responsibilities, and are enabled and propelled to pursue their full aspirations.
• Trust—people have confidence that others with whom they interact hold the intention of treating them with care, dignity, and fairness. We will prove our own dependability to the people, organizations, and communities we reach and encourage them to behave reliably in their relationships.

Peace Through Action® Our Principles Information Sheet