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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.

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Peace Through Commerce Partners

Peace Through Commerce is produced and presented through the collaboration of various organizations, and new partners are welcome to join the Peace Through Commerce Alliance. Following are the initial partners. Please contact Jeff Klein for information about joining the Peace Through Commerce Alliance.

FLOW is a non-profit corporation, founded by innovative educator Michael Strong and John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods, dedicated to “liberating the entrepreneurial spirit for good,” promoting entrepreneurial initiative and focusing it on the goals of sustainable peace, prosperity, and happiness for all, in the next 50 years.

AIESEC is a sixty-year-old organization that serves as “the international platform for young people to discover and develop their potential.” AIESEC was founded after World War II by French and German college students who wanted to foster cross-cultural understanding, through dialogue and commerce, to preempt future conflict.

GlobalGiving connects individual and institutional donors directly to social and economic development projects, as well as environmental causes, arond the world, to unleash the potential of people around the world to make positive change happen.

Globond is a company which serves a community of global entrepreneurs, executives, investors, politicians, journalists, artists and other professionals as they live and work around the world, providing them with access to the right people and the right information at the right time.

Zaadz is a conscious social networking site and a company merging spirituality, capitalism and technology to change the world by inspiring and empowering people to live at their highest potential.

Peace Cereal, (a brand of Golden Temple of Oregon, Inc..), is dedicated to promoting peace through business and breakfast.

 

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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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