The Passion for Peace Pledge
The TAKE 5 Peace Pass Protocol employs the strategy of message saturation as a vehicle to shift the common community focus towards practices of peacefulness. While this is a tactic most traditionally utilized in the arenas of product and political advertising, we aim to mobilize that effect to promote messages of Non-violent Tolerance, Peacemaking, and Peacekeeping.
The rapid increase in the emotional temperature of our day-to-day living continues to intensify, while our political polarization cultivates a fertile, festering ground for impatient and disenfranchised entitlement to blossom into flare-ups that flammably explode into violence. Because a significant percentage of violent crimes (via guns or any other means) occur during the escalation of ‘everyday personal-conflict encounters’, a key element in the effort to reduce violence is making de-escalation tools accessible and available.
The Take 5 Peace Pass Protocol was developed as an active response to the need for de-escalation resources. It is a de-escalation method that brings an intentional focus on Self Control to the conversations about Gun Control and Violence Prevention. It operates as a sequence of concerted practices that are designed to saturate communities with messages that promote Personal Pause and Tangible Tolerance, as it curates a simple hands-on way of transforming ‘entitled reactivity’ into ‘pro-active peacekeeping’…one person at a time…one situation at a time…one community at a time. conflict resolution.
THE MESSAGE OF PEACE
Reducing The Violence Without The Police