Dear Peacebuilders,

For many years Pathways To Peace and the Culture of Peace Initiative have supported, and served as co-sponsors, of the Summer of Peace lead by Philip Hellmich and The Shift Network. This summer they invite us to participate in, "Finding Common Ground: A Summer of Peace Summit!" Please take a look and see if this calls to you?

With Peace,

Avon Mattison,

Tezikiah Gabriel,

David Wick,

Pathways To Peace

Dear Friends,

Are you disheartened by the increasing division showing up around the world?

Are you concerned for our future - and for the future of generations to come?

As troubling and overwhelming as the events filling our news feeds are, as a human race, we actually have within us what it takes to transform our world....

We have the will, the intelligence, the resources, the heart, and the leaders to address and heal the areas of our planet that need it most...

In fact, there are brilliant changemakers all over the globe making meaningful progress on critical issues - the environment, health, human rights, women's issues, economic justice, and peace, to name a few.

Now we're being called to work in collaboration and partnership like never before, to create the comprehensive changes we need... for a world that works for all .

A nd Finding Common Ground , taking place August 7-9 ,  offers a path forward...

Free Online Event

Finding Common Ground

August 7-9, 2018

We're honored to invite you to join 30+ of the world's leading peacebuilders and changemakers - including Caroline Myss, Marla Maples, Sister Jenna, Shariff Abdullah, Chief Phil Lane, Jr., Robert Thurman, Xiuhtezcatl Martinez, Deborah Greene, Shamil Idriss, Khalida Brohi, Daryl Davis and so many more - sharing cutting-edge peace practices for building bridges, closing gaps, and connecting and promoting agents for change who are working to create a comprehensive blueprint for global transformation.

This 3-day event will highlight changemakers and their personal stories of transformations that led them to authentic and powerful action. These stories include a Palestinian living in Bethlehem who turned to the ancient wisdom of Jesus (love your enemy) to learn how to love Israelis; a former CIA counterintelligence agent working with the U.S. military in the Iraq war who has created a global movement, "others into brothers," turning enemies into allies; and an African American musician who befriended KKK leaders and engaged them in the work to end racism in America - and so many more.

I hope you'll join us for this extraordinary FREE online event presented by The Shift Network .  

• Day One: Personal Transformation How to prepare yourself to find common ground with others
• Day Two: Interpersonal Transformation How to find common ground with anyone you're looking at as "other"
• Day Three: Collective Transformation How to find common ground in your community and our world

• Caroline Myss speaks to the importance of every one of our choice s... because one clear choice, no matter how insignificant you might think it is, can redirect the course of your life in the blink of an eye.

• Marla Maples and Dot Maver will highlight the key principles necessary to create "right human relations" in a time of great polarization and fear.

• Robert Thurman will explore nonviolence and love as a pathway to common ground - focusing on the vital role of women in creating harmony and building a more sustainable future.

• Shamil Idriss will provide the three steps in finding common ground with an adversary: choosing hope, building trust, and changing the underlying system.

Incorporated in 1983, Pathways to Peace (PTP) is an international organization dedicated to making Peace a lived reality in our world today. PTP is an official Peace Messenger Organization of the United Nations and has Consultative Status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council. PTP works locally and globally, inter-generationally and multi-culturally, to promote Peacebuilding, Peace education, and to collaborate with other organizations in initiatives that help further the Culture of Peace Initiative (CPI). 

With participants from around the world, the Culture of Peace Initiative (CPI ) is a cooperative local-global Peacebuilding Initiative uniting the strengths of organizations, networks, projects and people to realize a Culture of Peace for the Common Good. The  CPI also serves as a vehicle for bringing to light many previously unseen and unheard Peacebuilders working along diverse paths, who are embodying the emerging Culture of Peace within Humanity.  The annual highlight of the  Culture of Peace Initiative is the International Day of Peace, which provides an opportunity for individuals, organizations, and nations to work together, on a shared date, to create practical acts of Peace with a year-round impact. For more information about Pathways To Peace, please visit our website: www.pathwaystopeace.org  or contact: [email protected]