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Purpose

Peace Through Commerce is an integrated outreach, education, and engagement platform designed to promote peace through commerce and to celebrate the powerful role commerce plays in promoting peace.

Join the Peace Through Commerce
on-line discussions at Zaadz.com
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Action

 

Actions you can take to promote Peace Through Commerce:

 

Learn & Participate

  • Learn more about how economic freedom, prosperity, and trade promote peace and engage in the online Peace Through Commerce community.

  • Promote awareness of the powerful role of commerce and prosperity in promoting peace. Invite people to the Peace Through Commerce events and refer them to other PTC activities.

  • Participate in the Peace Entrepreneurship competition at http://www.Changemakers.net by submitting your own plan or weighing in on the submissions of others.

    Support

  • Support greater economic freedom in the developing world.

  • Support the unilateral reduction of agricultural subsidies and trade barriers in the developed world

  • Support Oxfam’s campaign to end U.S. agricultural subsidies and give poor African farmers an opportunity to play in the global market

  • Direct your volunteer efforts and charitable contributions to support organizations and projects that foster economic opportunity for people and businesses in underdeveloped communities and those affected by violence.

  • Visit http://www.globalgiving.com/ptc for specific programs you can support

  • Support local and national businesses that promote peace through commerce


Do Good Business

  • Engage in ethical, cross-cultural, global commerce. You can explore the following and other tools and guidelines for support:

  • Collaborate with and provide opportunities for people in underdeveloped communities and those affected by violence.

    Sign up for the Peace Through Commerce online community at Zaadz.com

    Contribute to FLOW and Peace Through Commerce


    We would love to hear stories about how your work promotes peace, so we can spread the word. Please email stories to alina@flowidealism.org

    Please email
    us with any comments, suggestions, etc., as we are committed to continually elevating the quality of the program and increasing its effectiveness as a platform for promoting peace through commerce. You can also post your comments at the online community discussion space, to share with others and continue the dialogue and exploration.

 

Resources-Box

Peace Through Commerce Resources

Following are links to articles, organizations, and other resources with information to deepen understanding of the power of economic freedom, prosperity, entrepreneurial initiative, and trade to advance peace. Please let us know if you are aware of other significant sources.

 

A Million Paths to Peace, by Michael Strong, CEO & Chief Visionary Officer, FLOW

Combating Terrorism: A Socio-Economic Strategy, by Major Miemie Winn Byrd, US Pacific Command

Paths Towerd Peace: A Sri Lankan Example by Mark Frazier, CEO, Openworld, Inc.

Publications by Erik A. Gartzke, Associate Professor of Political Science, Columbia University

Economic Freedom of the World: 2006 Annual Report, published by the Fraser Institute

Hernando De Soto's Institute for Liberty & Democracy

AACSB International's Peace Through Commerce survey and conference

Economic Freedom & Growth: The Case of the Celtic Tiger, by Benjamin Powell, published in the Cato Journal, Winter 2003

Business Council for Peace supports women entrepreneurs in creating sustainable businesses.

International Alert is an independent peacebuilding organisation working in over 20 countries and territories around the world.

 

 
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last update: December 9, 2006