Taking Steps To Create A Peace Department

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http://www.longislandpress.com/?cp=162&show=article&a_id=9703

April Jimenez

From Miss America contestants to people blowing out birthday candles to observers of shooting stars, there are many who wish for world peace—and then chalk it up to just that, a wish. Now, a Sea Cliff-based organization, Long Islanders for a Department of Peace (LIFDP), is taking that hope to the next level and doing what it can to make that wish a reality.

LIFDP is part of The Peace Alliance, a national nonprofit bipartisan citizen lobbying effort to create a U.S. Department of Peace (DoP). The concept, one which well-respected former newscaster Walter Cronkite says has "considerable appeal," was first proposed by Ohio congressman and presidential hopeful Dennis Kucinich in 2003. A bill now before both houses of Congress (House Resolution 3760 and Senate 1756) would expand current problem-solving techniques and provide nonviolent solutions to domestic and international discord. The bill has 75 sponsors in the House and two in the Senate.
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