Keynote words:

1. The Missing Peace in Our Federal Government Keynote words: Efficiency, Effectiveness, Economical Professional, Predictive, Proactive Creative, Confident, Compassionate

2. Preliminary Consensus Building • Do you think there are existing government offices dedicated to promoting peace and reducing violence? • Do you think it’s possible for government to operate efficiently?

3. Preliminary Consensus Building • Do you think people in general and Congress members in particular are concerned about creating more government bureaucracy and wasting our financial resources? • Would you like to see a Department of Peace created that is a model of efficiency and effective-ness for promoting peace and reducing violence domestically and internationally?

4. Cautionary Note • Don’t get attached to the wording of the bill because it could change within committees or in future reintroductions. • Possible personal, political and organizational turfdoms could obstruct an optimal Department of Peace as we would like it to be.

5. Cautionary Note • We don’t always get what we want when we want it... but our conversation, actions, intentions, and thoughts do have great impact personally and collectively.

6. What Have I Done? • Went to the websites of all of our existing Federal departments (State, Justice, Defense, etc.) and collected their current organizational structure of offices, agencies, etc.

7. What Have I Done? • Read our existing 110th Congressional bill proposing the Department of Peace and Non-Violence.

8. What Have I Done? • Made the obvious match-ups of existing offices and agencies to the DoP bill’s seven new proposed offices.

9. Seven New DoP Offices Proposed • Office of Peace Education and Training. • Office of Domestic Peace Activities. • Office of International Peace Activities. • Office of Technology for Peace. • Office of Arms Control and Disarmament. • Office of Peaceful Coexistence and Nonviolent Conflict Resolution. • Office of Human Rights and Economic Rights.

10. Office of Domestic Peace Activities • (a) In General- There shall be in the Department an Office of Domestic Peace Activities, the head of which shall be the Assistant Secretary for Domestic Peace Activities. The Assistant Secretary for Domestic Peace Activities shall carry out those functions in the Department affecting domestic peace activities, including the development of policies that increase awareness about intervention and counseling on domestic violence and conflict. • (b) Responsibilities- The Assistant Secretary for Domestic Peace Activities shall--(1) develop policy alternatives for the treatment of drug and alcohol abuse;            (2) develop new policies and build on existing programs responsive to the prevention of crime, including the development of community policing strategies and peaceful settlement skills among police and other public safety officers; and            (3) develop community-based strategies for celebrating diversity and promoting tolerance.

11. High-Level DoP Matchups • Office of Peace Education and Training - Nothing obvious, but plenty of collaboration opportunities with existing agencies • Office of Domestic Peace Activities. Dept of Justice Gold Mine: • Office of Community Oriented Policing Services • Gang Resistance Education and Training program • National Gang Intelligence Center • National Gang Targeting, Enforcement & Coordination Center • National Gang Center • National Youth Gang Center • Project Safe Neighborhood • Community Capacity Development Office • Office on Violence Against Women • School-Based Partnership (SBP) grant • Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools (Dept of Education)

12. High-Level DoP Matchups • Office of International Peace Activities. • Office of the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization (Dept of State) • Global Peace Operations Initiative Team (Dept of State) • Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (Dept of State) • Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (Dept of State) • Office of Child Labor, Forced Labor, and Human Trafficking (Dept of Labor) • Peace Corps (Executive Branch Independent Agency) • Institute of Peace (Congressional Independent Agency)

13. High-Level DoP Matchups • Office of Technology for Peace. - Nothing obvious, but plenty of collaboration opportunities with existing agencies • Office of Arms Control and Disarmament. Dept of State Gold Mine: • Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security • Bureau of Political-Military Affairs • Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation • Bureau of Verification, Compliance and Implementation • Office of Regional Security and Arms Transfers • Office of International Security Operations • Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement • Office of Nonproliferation and Treaty Compliance (Dept of Commerce)

14. High-Level DoP Matchups • Office of Peaceful Coexistence and Nonviolent Conflict Resolution. - Community Relations Service (Dept of Justice) • Office of Human Rights and Economic Rights. • Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (Dept of State) Just the Human Rights portion of the Department gets transferred over to the Dept of Peace. • Office of the Special Envoy for Human Rights in North Korea (Dept of State) • Office of the Special Envoy To Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism (Dept of State)

15. Collaboration Opportunities • Office of Peace Education and Training. • Administration for Children and Families (ACF) within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) • Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention • Child Welfare Services and Promoting Safe and Stable Families • Family Violence Prevention and Services Formula Grants • Trafficking in Persons Program • Administration on Aging within HHS • Empower older persons and their family members to detect and prevent elder abuse

16. Collaboration Opportunities • Office of Peace Education and Training. • Centers for Disease Control & Preventionwithin HHS • The Public Health Approach to Violence Prevention • The Social Ecological Model: A Framework for Prevention • Child Maltreatment • Intimate Partner Violence • Sexual Violence • Youth Violence • International Violence Prevention • National Institute on Drug Abuse (HHS) • National Institute of Mental Health (HHS) • Office of Global Mental Health • Office of Prevention • Adult Psychopathology and Psychosocial Intervention Research Branch • Psychosocial Stress and Related Disorders Branch • On and On and On.......

17. What Can You Do With This Info? • Take Action – Refer to the handout, “How to Establish a Dept of Peace” for a list of actions that you can take as an individual to make the Dept of Peace a reality. (The handout can be found at www.afdop.org/involved) • Let’s get started tonight by writing to our Senators! • You can now address the “Don’t Want More Bureaucracy” objection to a Dept of Peace with your newfound knowledge of how a Dept of Peace can be created efficiently and effectively using existing Federal offices and agencies.

18. Contact Me Email me at bgibbs@san.rr.com if you want any of the below: • copies of this presentation. • 70+ pages of documentation that contains the comprehensive analysis that is the foundation of which this presentation is just a tiny tip of the iceberg. • a link to the YouTube videos of this presentation to engage in conversation with others.

21. Collaboration Opportunities • Office of Domestic Peace Activities. • Article b-1. Develop policy alternatives for the treatmentof drug and alcohol abuse • Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration(HHS) • Article b-2. Develop new policies and build on existing programs responsive to the prevention of crime... - Dept of Justice • Criminal Division • Federal Bureau of Investigation • Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives • Office of Justice Programs • On and On and On.......

22. What I Did and What I’m Doing • Making this information and presentation available to whoever wants via email and YouTube so the discussion can continue and deepen. • Sent this information to Congresswoman Susan Davis (CD 53) at her request. Cover letter highlights that provide a context for this discussion. • Incorporate feedback I receive into updated version to send to all DoP bill Co-Sponsors so they’re aware of this conversation to efficiently and effectively create a Department of Peace modeling appropriate stewardship of our national resources (people and financial).