Ask Your Representative to Cosponsor H.R. 808, the Department of Peace Act

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Background

Social work members of Congress, Reps. Barbara Lee, Susan Davis, Ed Towns and Luis Gutierrez are original co-sponsors of the Department of Peace Act H.R. 808. The act would establish a Department of Peace headed by a Secretary of Peace. The mission of the department is to (1) cultivate peace as a national policy objective; and (2) develop policies that promote national and international conflict prevention, nonviolent intervention, mediation, peaceful conflict resolution, and structured conflict mediation.

While previous iterations of the act ran into trouble citing duplication with the State Department responsibilities, the current version was revised to have an emphasis on domestic rather than international conflict.

Action Requested

Contact your member of Congress and ask them to become a cosponsor of H.R. 808 and work towards its passage. If your member of Congress is already a cosponsor we have a letter thanking them for their cosponsorship.

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One Response to “Ask Your Representative to Cosponsor H.R. 808, the Department of Peace Act”

  1. tednunn Says:
    March 27th, 2009 at 9:11 am

    Thanks for encouraging your readers to write to their Representatives to support H. R. 808 - the Department of Peace act! Change.org also has a simple tool for doing this as part of the DOP action:
    http://www.change.org/ideas/2028/view_action/ask_your_congressional_representative_to_support_hr_808_-_the_department_of_peace_act

    The benefit of Change.org is that you can participate in the on-line community that is helping make the Department of Peace a reality.

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