PEACE-DOT

What is the domain of peace?
—Help build an awareness that peace is possible

The Foundation’s mission is to support the development of our shared global capacity for ethics and peace.

If you're a blogger, webmaster, have a Facebook page or own a domain, you can help increase global awareness of peace and peace-related activities and metrics by creating a Peace-dot page (or site) within your domain. The Peace-dot project at Stanford University focuses on measuring and promoting peace, and we subscribe to their goal of creating a large community engaging in massive collaboration to spread the news about peace and score its quantifications & progress all over the world.

To this end, we encourage you to create a page or site in your own domain and add your voice, and that of your organization, to this process. The goal is that wherever there’s an organization that has a www.dot.com presence you would also find a site peace.dot.com that describes your committment to measurable steps to maintain and create peace in our world.

But even if you don’t have your own domain, you can still help by adding a Peace-dot page within your website.

We hope to be able to give you a boost by introducing you to some online resources that might give you a head start.

How geeky do you have to be to install these on your site? We have rated them on a “hotness” scale (like chili or curry in the stew) from mild through spicy hot.^{*[see note below]}

Embed an online database search in your page

CR Info - the Conflict Resolution Information Sourceprovides access to thousands of online resources in 600 topic areas. You can create a My CRInfo search box on your own website. Find out how to add CRInfo to your Peace-dot page. (sample search below). Search CRInfo For: In: All Web Resources Print/AV Resources Organizations Events

The Dalai Lama Foundation Peace and Ethics knowledgebase contains thousands of references to online sources in ethics and peace. You can put a search box in your web page or in the sidebar of your blog. Find out how to add a knowledgebase search to your page. (sample search below). Search the peace and ethics knowledgebase

Add an inspirational message

Daily Good by CharityFocus.org provides you with ways to embed an inspirational message in a website or for you to resyndicate the Daily Good message of the dayor add it to your website. Find out how to add Daily Good to your Peace-dot page!

Help visitors find ways to build community

Care2 is a place where people can organize around the causes they care about. Find out how to add Care2 to your Peace-dot page.

WiserEarth is a free online community space that lets people find others working on similar issues, connect, share ideas and build networks and create groups for communities of action. Find out how to add OpenWiser/WiserEarth to your Peace-dot page.

Learn more about Peace-dot

News— Roll-out announcement at Castilleja School in Palo Alto, CA [USA] on October 27, 2009. The meeting was webcast, and was picked up by a couple of newswriters. Article in Tikkun Daily (online). Article in The Guardian (UK, online). Huffington Post Can Facebook Promote World Peace?

Webcast from Castilleja School, Palo Alto (you can also view this on UStream)

*How tech-savvy do you have to be to make these work?
(In other words “How spicy is the food?”)

Mild— To add widgets or code at this level you don’t need to be techy at all. You should be able to put these into your WordPress (or other) blog without knowing anything about HTML or scripting. Moderately spicy— For tech tips in this category, we will provide some examples that you can copy and paste into your site or blog. Knowing some HTML, PHP, Perl or other “scripting” will be useful if you want to modify things.

Spicy hot— You’d better know PHP, Perl, Java or system administration because you’ll probably have to write your own code. We’ll give you lots of hints and details, but you’ll have to do the work. In some cases, there may be developer communities that you can contact for help.