Inside peace, the documentary film


The Inside Peace documentary follows a group of inmates doing hard time in a Texas prison as they embark on a journey of personal discovery while struggling with society’s roadblocks and dangers.

“These stories bleed through Inside Peace, and they are crucial to it, but they’re only part of what the film is about. The men manage to take the message to heart that they have value as people – no simple lesson… This is where, for the viewer, the awe comes in.”
—Peace Behind Barbed Wire by Robert Koehler, Huffington Post.

About Inside Peace

Criminal offenders with lives marked by generations of violence, addiction, and poor social conditions attend the Peace Class in a Texas prison where they struggle to discover their humanity, improve their outlook on life and rebuild their lives from the inside out. Four years in the making, Inside Peace is a feature documentary that focuses on several compelling characters who were incarcerated at Dominguez State Jail in San Antonio, Texas. There, they embarked on a journey of change by enrolling in the Peace Class, one of the few self-improvement programs offered in prisons across the country that are not faith-based, but instead concentrates on the individual’s inner strength and self-worth.

Read more on the Inside Peace documentary website.

Invest in an NGO Peace Bond

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Invest in Peace has the idea to create a prototype crowdfunding platform. The service is at concept phase. You you can get an idea of how it is intended to work from this video.

https://youtu.be/RRVeYo2hzgk

The purpose of the platform is for people to invest their money in helping NGOs working for peace. The money Invest in Peace collects will be lent to NGOs to help them build up their operations.

The loans are interest-free, but bond holders will get bonus points, which can be redeemed in the points store. Participating NGOs offer their products and services for redeemable points.

To try the system out, go to our test site by  following this link

Sign in using the name: test

Password: test

Your test account has an overdraft facility so you can go to the catalogue to browse items and redeem them against Peace Points. Search the classified Ads section. You can enter advertisements for your own things as well.

Contact us if you would like to help out with developing this investment platform.

Beneficiaries will be Peace Bank Members. Contact us if you would like your organisation to join.

 

 

FILM: The Economics of Happiness

Watch a short excerpt for free

The Economics of Happiness describes a world moving simultaneously in two opposing directions. On the one hand, government and big business continue to promote globalization and the consolidation of corporate power. At the same time, all around the world people are resisting those policies, demanding a re-regulation of trade and finance—and, far from the old institutions of power, they’re starting to forge a very different future. Communities are coming together to re-build more human scale, ecological economies based on a new paradigm – an economics of localization. Continue reading FILM: The Economics of Happiness

How the system has failed, not us

In this extremely educative video from the BBC, economics professor Steve Keen explains how the system we live under has failed us. If we have have bad debts, they should be forgiven because they come more from the system rather than a lack of prudence on the part of the borrowers.

Steve also explains how rising violence comes from systemic faults that need to be addressed.

Read more on Steve’s website Debunking Economics

Beta version of our Peace Bank released

We have set up a Peace Bank facility to help fulfill our mission of encouraging and supporting more activities to promote peace in the world . We have just released a beta version of our Peace Bank. The Bank holds details of organizations working to promote peace, and is under continuous development and update.

The Peace Bank also collects stories to inspire and inform us how people and their organisations came to build foundations for peace in different ways. In a short while we will publish stories you will be able to retrieve using a search function. In the meantime we have some demonstration stories here.

 

Visit our Peace Bank Page.

Addressing Inner Transition

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Photo: Maj-Lis Koivisto

Inner transition represents the spiritual and mental side of the necessary technical move from fossil fuels (partly motivated by the climate threat) to a more planet and people-friendly lifestyle. The change is often framed as meaning we need to give things up, make do with less, face harder times etc. Because of this, change to sustainability and promotion of peace that comes with sustainability, meet resistance.

We need to better understand the emotional response to these changes as well as the context in which we are trying to operate. This is one of the aims of Inner Transition.

Stephen Hinton recently gave a short introduction to Inner Transition at a garden workshop in Sweden.

Read the account of Stephen’s workshop here.
Read Transition Town co-founder Rob Hopkins’ view of inner transition.