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To help support this website, you may place an order for ten Peace Prayer bookmarks. Please mail check for $10. which
includes shipping and handling to La Paix Herb Farm, 3052 Crooked Run Rd., Alum Bridge, West Virginia 26321. You may
specify the Prayers you would like. Each bookmark is individually laminated.

Here are suggested issues in your personal life and in governments whose result can be a matter of choice. Pick one to work on as you take this journey into the Interactive Peace Museum.

An Economic Issue

1. Big corporations have influenced your Governing Body to make regulations which small businesses cannot possibly adhere to. How do you save your business?

2. Big corporations are being allowed to export jobs to other countries because the labor is cheaper there (including child labor) and the environmental controls are less.

Choose one:
a) What can the citizens of the country exporting jobs do? or......

b) What can the citizens of the other countries do to stop the exploitation of their people and their environment?

3. A large energy corporation is planning to drill gas wells all around your farm, which is your home and business and you don't want this to happen. What can you do to make them stop?

or choose your own issue. Make sure to state the issue clearly. Write it out on a piece of paper.
In fact, you might want to jot down the various paths you have taken as you venture through the Museum.

After you have picked one issue to work on, scroll down and pick three things you could do to resolve this issue. If you would like to read a prayer before going on, click here. If you would like to walk a labyrinth to meditate on your issue before starting, click here. http://www.lessons4living.com/finger_labyrinth.htm One way to walk the labyrinth which you might like: First circle: state your issue, Second Circle: state the emotions around the issue. Third Circle: State the physical and economic ramifications of your issue. Fourth Circle: How does this issue effect you personally and spiritually? Fifth Circle: Ask whoever is your highest power to help you. Sixth Circle: You get a manifestation. It may be what you already thought, but it may be something completely different. Seventh Circle: You get the first step. Middle: Relax-don't think. As you come out of the labyrinth, in each circle think about what you learned. Peace!

Economic Techniques and Steps

1. Below are various techniques & steps you may choose to take to address your Economic Issue.
Click on the three which you think would be most helpful.

2. After picking the three techniques/steps you think would be most helpful, research each by
     a) Clicking on the suggested web links and
     b) Research each technique/step on the web; in your library; with an expert of your choice.

3. If you would like to clarify your learning:
    a. List your issue.
    b. List the three choices you made and detail the research you have done on each.
    c. State why you think that step or technique will work or not work. You might want to consider some of the questions
         below in your analysis:
         1. Is the step pro-active or reactive?
         2. Can the step be done by yourself or do you need to create or join an organization?
         3. Does the step mean that the culture in which you live has to change? In what way?
         4. Does the step mean that the structure of your government has to change? In what way?
         5. Is this a step to be taken world-wide, country-wide or on a smaller basis?
         6. If this is a step you can take by yourself, what are the risks involved?
    d. State what you think the results of your intervention will be.
    e. State what you might want to do next, if anything. (form a discussion group through email or in your geographic
         area) do further research?

4. If you would like send your summary in an email to the author of the Interactive Peace Museum. I would be happy to
     learn from you what you think of the Interactive Peace Museum, what you liked about it, and what could be improved.
     Thanks for thinking Peace!

If you have techniques or steps and links you think would be useful in this website, please send them to me. Thanks!
email us

1. Ask an expert in Conflict
Resolution to work with you and
the other party. For information
about Conflict Resolution.

http://www.transcend.org/pctrcluj2004/
TRANSCEND_manual.pdf

http://www.colorado.edu/conflict/

http://www.sit.edu/contact/

http://www.transformative
mediation.org/

http://www.peacemakers.ca/
bibliography/

http://www.transcend.org/tpu/courses
.shtmlAA_SL_Session=e3cf35ccbefa
252b00856fbb49d32cef&x=139

2. Sign up to join the Army, Navy or Marines. That way you don't have to
worry about your finances. You can get
an education after your stint in the
service - leading to a better job.

http://www.wired.com/news/games/
0,2101,53663,00.html?tw=wn_story_
related

http://www.wired.com/news/space
/0,2697,65151,00.html

http://www.ehow.com/how_8683_join-army.html

http://www.simsbury.k12.ct.us/shs/
guidance/military.htm

http://www.veteransadvantage.com/
coverstory/PatrickDaley.htm

3. Learn about sustainable
development and create a
project using the principles. For
information about sustainable development:

http://www.ulb.ac.be/ceese/
meta/sustvl.html

http://www.wbcsd.ch/templates/
TemplateWBCSD5/layout.asp?MenuID=1

http://www.earthinstitute.
columbia.edu/

http://www.iisd.org/

http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/

http://www.ulb.ac.be/ceese
/meta/sustvl.html

4. Use a name (e.g. PeaceWorks)
for certifying equitable produce. Whoever buys the PeaceWorks
can be sure that the product was
purchased at a fair price, covering production expenses as well as
meeting the basic needs
of grower's families in terms of food, health and education. Development bonuses are invested in economic
and social community projects.

http://www.fairtrade.net/

http://www.greenbiz.com/toolbox/
printer.cfm?LinkAdvID=4157

5. Vote to finance a war against the countries which are producing products
that are made with child labor, without decent working conditions and harming
the environment.

http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/isclgoh/ST-14mar03.htm

http://www.frontpagemag.com/
Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=9319

6. Establish groups which are
committed to exposing practices
of multi-national big corporations.
Practices such as: giving priority
to economic considerations over social responsibility, decent
working conditions, basic environmental concern.
Exposing such practices
and making consumers aware
that what they buy often has a
cost in environmental or human
terms.

http://www.nyenvirolaw.org/PDF
/DHHS112003ToxicsReduction
PrecautionaryPrinciple.pdf

http://www.cleanclothes.org/

http://www.sweatshopwatch.org/

7. Call, visit or email your elected
representatives on issues of concern:
join groups which watchdog current legislation, corporation and
government practices sothat you are
up to date on the issues.

http://www.wvecouncil.org/

http://www.moveon.org/front/

8. Discuss with your friends,
colleagues, families what is happening
and things that can be done for peace.
http://www.ancestry.com/learn/
library/article.aspx?article=8272

http://repository.upenn.edu/
dissertationsAAI3073056/

9. Create a Peace Festival. Invite
small businesses which are
producing products in an environmentally friendly
way. Have music for peace.
Include Illustrations of peaceful
ways to negotiate disagreements; examples of sustainable development: water, energy,
housing, transportation.

http://www.worldpeace.org/
rffestival.html

http://www.mcc.org/bc/peace/

10. Establish an association which
builds public awareness in matters of global finance; an association which champions human and
social values against the profit-
making logic of the markets and multinational corporations.
Campaign for democratic regulators
to be set up which allow people to
have their say when decisions
are made that will effect
their future.

http://www.g77.org/marrakech/
Marrakech-Declaration.htm

http://www.fao.org/english/newsroom
/news/2003/26639-en.html

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/
csgr/research/abstracts/abwp8802/

http://action.web.ca/home/clcpolcy/
en_issues.shtml?x=15193&AA_EX_Session=
afec704fdeea713fa74a19ee9372e483

11. Lower your prices. Cut out fringe benefits for your employees so you
can compete.

http://businessmajors.about.com/od/
bizmajors101/g/FringeBenefits.htm
http://www.admin.mtu.edu/hro/
fringe/forum2.html

http://www.adviceguide.org.uk/index
/life/tax/fringe_benefits.htm

http://www.smirkingchimp.
com/article.php?sid=19719

http://www.smbiz.com/sbrl005.html

http://www.toolkit.cch.com/text/P05
_4811.asp

http://www.dol.gov/dol/topic/benefits
-other/

12. Abolish economic systems
which structurally produce hunger.
Establish international regulators
for the safety of the environment
everywhere.

http://www.eurosur.org/wide/
UN/Hanak_Report_FfD02.htm

http://www.inmotionmagazine.

com/shiva.html

http://www.fao.org/english/
newsroom/news/2003/26639-en.html

http://capwiz.com/pdamerica/
callalert/index.tt?alertid=7383776

http://www.citizen.org/trade/cafta/

http://www.april2005.org/

13. Develop a Peace & Social Forum to
discuss ways to a peaceful economy and environmentally friendly small
businesses.
http://www.wispeace.org/

http://umcp.org/index.php/
PeaceForum

http://www.peace.ca/worldpeace
forumvancouver.htm

14. Encourage retail shops here and
abroad to sell third world handicraft
and food whose environmentally
friendly production is in compliance
with Human Rights requirements.
Establish cooperatives in third
world countries to produce these
goods.

http://www.cafecampesino.com/
fairgrounds/0412/mexico.html

http://www.g77.org/marrakech/Marrakech-Declaration.htm

15. Encourage the development of
solar energy, fuel cell energy, and conservation of energy in the United
States and Europe. Establish an
international regulatory committee
for the encouragement of renewable
energy sources and conservation of
energy.
http://www.cc.utah.edu/~ptt25660/
tran.html
and
http://www.hubbertpeak.com/
youngquist/altenergy.htm

http://www.culturechange.org/e-letter-24.html

16. Promote, call for and develop peace education in schools.

http://www.ppu.org.uk/learn/
peaceed/pe_ednetcurriculum.html

http://www.peacefulschools
international.org/links.htm

17. Study and find out how to make environmentally friendly housing for
poor people. Show how to mix
cement, clay and water to make adobe blocks. Families living in shantytown dwellings will have healthy permanent houses. In return they just have to
fulfill one condition: making others
able to avail themselves of this
opportunity.
http://www.sida.se/Sida/jsp/polopoly.
jsp?d=693
http://www.tchabitat.org/default.asp

http://www.unesco.org/courier/
2000_01/uk/dossier/txt05.htm

http://www.worldvision.org.uk/world
viewarchive/worldview44.html

18. Get a list of products made with
child labor and publish it. Picket in
front of stores selling such products,
telling customers which of the
products sold there are made with
child labor. Don't buy anything
made with child labor.

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/
Life_Death_ThirdWorld/Free
Children_MNM.html

http://www.laborstandards.org/
show.asp?subjectId=4

19. Promote, call for and develop
peace education in our communities, organizations and media.

http://www.usaid.gov/our_work/cross-cutting_programs/transition_initiatives/
country/liberia/topic1204.html
and

http://www.peacejusticestudies.org/
conference/program.php

http://cbae.nmsu.edu/~dboje/
leaders.html

20. Create a petition and get people to sign it.

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/?ltl=1111416620

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/
petition/internet.htm

21. Grow Your Own Candidates:
Fed up with the conduct of your
elected representatives? Form a
group and Grow Your Own
Candidates. Get the issues you
want discussed out there. And
Vote!

http://www.gp.org/
http://www.votenader.org/
http://www.greenparty.org.uk/
http://www.greens.org/

22. Realize that boycotting products made
by child labor and low paid workers in third
world countries can be damaging to the
developing country. Instead, protest to
targeting corporate images, inviting
companies to abide by socially responsible
codes.
http://www.burmalibrary.org/reg.burma
/archives/199902/msg00496.html

http://www.ustr.gov/assets/Document_
Library/Reports_Publications/2001/2001_
NTE_Report/asset_upload_file117_
6552.pdf

23. Develop a bank which loans money
to economically disadvantaged
people who do not have assets.

http://www.oikocredit.org/microcredit
/doc.phtml?p=Television

http://www.opportunity.org.uk/
homepage/microfinance%20report.pdf

http://web.idrc.ca/es/ev-3276-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html

http://www.grameen-info.org/

24. Read all the rules and
regulations pertaining to the
subject. Document and
photograph the non-compliance
with the law. Put the results on your website. Go to the Press.

http://www.lapaixherbfarm
products.com/End%20of%20La%20
Paix.html

25.. Find a third person who is friendly with both of you and ask them to intervene.

http://www.colorado.edu/conflict/
peace/treatment/3ptyint.htm

http://www.lrims.com/FAQthird
party.htm

http://bcsia.ksg.harvard.edu/
publication.cfm?ctype=paper&item_id=355

26. Do nothing.

http://www.bartleby.com/62/25/
D0472500.html

http://www.well.com/user/jct/Sreedhav's_
Poems_2/In_Torment.htm

http://biology.queensu.ca/~scb/041104.htm

http://www.debtworkout.com/notfaq.html

27. Social Investments were
initiated in the U.S. in the 1920's. Europeans had to wait until the
1980's before they could invest in
morally, socially, and
environmentally correct companies.
A socially controlled economy
allows investors to live up to their principles. Instead of giving their support to companies that turn out weapons,
pollute the environment or have something to do with tobacco,
alcohol, gambling or child labor
in third world sweatshops.

http://www.calvert.com/

http://hbswk.hbs.edu/pubitem.jhtml?id=3774&t=nonprofit

http://www.nwrel.org/nwedu/09-02/social.asp

28. Create an Association for the Development of Rural Communities. Supervise small-sized, low-cost
projects adapted to farmer's financial possibilities rather than abide by
the far too ambitious and
intervention prone international
expert's development schemes.

http://www.spinnenwerk.de/ara/
ara2.htm

http://www.4ni.co.uk/listing.asp?cat=575&style=0&company=2677&
level1=32

http://www.fao.org/english/
newsroom/news/2003/26639-en.html

29. Work for people who are in charge
of the economy and do whatever they
say to do.

http://www.nhrdbangalore.com/Library/
why-downsize.htm

http://isc.bke.hu/htm/course/iec684.htm

http://www.pitt.edu/~nsp3/jobs.html

30. Work together for a "socially
correct" certification in order to
promote Human Rights among
exploited workers. Build consumer awareness about purchasing goods produced under degrading
conditions. Consumers are invited
to bring pressure to bear on retailers. "Socially Correct" certificates are
printed on goods produced without
child-labor, for decent wages and
working conditions.

http://www.financialexpress.
com/fe/daily/20000912/fco10025.html

31. Establish a Credit Cooperative for Small Scale Productions in
connection with micro banking.
For more information:

http://www.microbanker.org/

http://www.i4donline.net/issue
/jan04/leveraging.htm

http://www.ruralfinance.org/servlet/
CDSServlet?status=ND01NT
cyLjczOTAm
Nj1lbiYzMz12aX
NpdG9yX3Byb2dyYW1tZS
YzNz1pbmZv

32. Develop equitable trade markets with other countries.

http://www.acdi-cida.gc.ca/cida_ind.nsf/0/6D0279B929
D7450A85256A11005478FF?
OpenDocument

http://www.fairtrade.net/

http://www.ipsnews.net/focus/tv_g77/
viewstory.asp?idn=276

http://www.ficci.com/ficci/media-room/speeches-presentations/2002/
nov/nov-cop-8.htm

http://www.transfairusa.org/

http://www.fairtrade.org.uk/

33. Grant loans to the disadvantaged
only at normal market rates and
without insisting on security. Small
loans funding small-scale projects.
This is the micro credit system,
recognized by the World Bank.

http://www.myrada.org/

h ttp://www.icrcharity.com/
microcredit.html

http://www.gdrc.org/icm/

34 Make sure the third world country
has fixed wages below the
subsistence level and imposes backbreaking production rates.

http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/mnc.htm

http://www.adviceguide.org.uk/index
/life/tax/fringe_benefits.htm

http://www.law.monash.edu.au/
castancentre/projects/mchr/

http://www.victorianweb.org/
technology/porter5.html

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.
cfm?abstract_id=518786

http://www.henrygeorge.
org/chp15&16.htm

35. Have your government pass a
resolution stating a set of standards
that must be applied for
companies relocating in
developing countries. This is the first
step in establishing a "socially correct"
certification.

For more information:

http://www.financialexpress.com/
fe/daily/20000912/fco10025.html

http://www.wcit.org/topics/imports/
outsourcing_2-04.htm

http://www.johnlocke.org/news_
columns/display_story.html?id=1344

http://www.shrm.org/nahrma/
maquila2.asp

http://www.puertorico-herald.org/issues/2004/vol8n20/
WashUpdate0820-en.shtml

36. Tired? Visit one of the many
peaceful gardens around the world.

Peace Museum Garden Photo 1.
Feng Shui Gate

Peace Museum Garden Photo 2.
Pavilion and herbs

Peace Museum Garden Photo 3.
Buddha, San Francisco Botanical Garden
Peace Museum Garden Photo 4.
Sunshine Farm& Garden, Renick,
WV
Peace Museum Garden Photo 5.
Bathtub in the Garden, W.V.
Peace Museum Garden Photo 6.
The Asian Garden, San
Francisco,CA.
Peace Museum Garden Photo 7.
Road through Lavender Fields,
France

http://academic.bowdoin.edu/zen/