Programs

Our Programs

Peace Through Action® USA inspires and equips everyday people to increase safety, belonging, and peace in their relationships and communities by cultivating their compassion and increasing their constructive communication and conflict resolution skills.

We accomplish our mission by producing events and resources for exploring civic and social concerns, promoting examples of inspiring community peacebuilders, encouraging spiritual self-care and anchoring, teaching practical peace skills, supporting personal and small group action planning for peace, bolstering community peacebuilding efforts, and advocating for a socially just society.

We implement these actions through our programs. Our programs change norms of acceptable behavior among the public, uplift spirits of community members, increase competence of community members in peace practices, improve capacity of community organizations to deliver peace practices to their community members, and increase social capital within communities.

Peace Accelerators Program—strengthens people’s ability to increase peace in their relationships and communities. Participants build peace skills together, make action plans for change, and discover resources that support social well-being.

• Peace Through Action Meet-Ups—gatherings that bring small groups together to create simple, personal action plans for increasing peace in their relationships and communities.
• Practical Peace Solutions Sessions—brief workshops that show people how to apply constructive communication and conflict resolution skills in real-life situations.
• Essential Peace Skills Trainings—intensive learning experiences that teach core communication and conflict resolution skills.

Peace Advisors Program—matches skills-based peacebuilding volunteers with groups and organizations in communities experiencing social distress.

Peace Agents—provides compensated servant leaders to geographic communities to bolster their capacity to deliver peacebuilding activities.

• Community Peace Projects—collective impact alliances through which community members, guided by a Peace Through Action servant leader, select, organize, and deliver peacebuilding activities in their geographic areas.

Peace Explorers—provides opportunities for people to learn about diverse populations, current events affecting social distress, forms of aggression and violence, and types of peace practices.

• Peace Through Action Events—virtual gatherings of adults to learn about civic and social topics with a focus on peace. Using delivery methods of subject expert lecture, skills training, film discussion, artistic presentation, reflection, and experiential activities, participants gain knowledge on compassionate living, peace practices, and social justice concerns.
• Do Something About Social Distress Series—webpages and information sheets on social distress subjects.
• Choose Peace Practices Series—webpages and information sheets on peace practices types.

Peace Promoters—provides opportunities for people to encourage peaceful behavior and reject aggression and violence.

• Featured Peacebuilders—interviews with ordinary people doing extraordinary things to increase peace in their communities.

Peace Uplifters—provides opportunities for people with faith beliefs or healing capabilities to direct prayer, meditation, energy, and support toward the achievement of interpersonal peace.

• Prayer for Peace Through Action
• Meditation on Peace Through Action

Peaceful Kids Program—provides peace skills education for elementary-aged children, integrating play-based activities, storytelling, and guided practice to strengthen emotional awareness, constructive conflict resolution, and prosocial communication skills.

Peaceful Youth Leaders Program—cultivates servant leadership skills, nurtures social and emotional growth, and fosters civic engagement with an emphasis on peace among youth.

Public Policy—advocates for public policies, programs, and resources to prevent crime, violence, and victimization and promote safety, belonging, and peace.