1. Recognize how you have been sucked into the War Economy The War Economy forces addictions on everyone in order to survive within it. What addictions are preventing you from truly connecting with your community, and what steps can you do today to pivot to peace economy habits?
2. Cultivate Community Find, join or create a place to build trust. Make commitments together to create a future rooted in people, community, and caring for each other and the planet.
3. Pivot to a Peace Economy Participate in economic and community-focused systems that support people: Cooperatives, mutual aid, alternative currencies, timebanks, reciprocity. Don’t know where to begin? The Local Peace Economy website can help direct you to information and resources that will help you find your next step.
4. Practice and Support Cultivating a Culture of Peace Create, make, cultivate as a way to replace the anxiety, fretting, and torture of self and soul that fills the news cycle every day. Cultivate a local peace economy to take the ground out from under hate, division, lies, and fear-mongering xenophobia. What we create is the future we need for people and planet.
5. Be a part of the Cycle of Reconnection Speak truth, grieve, care, celebrate and share your joy with members of your community.
6. Rinse and Repeat Remember, healing from the thinking and habits that are the basis of the War Economy takes time, and no one in our cultures is immune or outside of its grips. You may need to revisit the tenets of the Peace Economy and recommit yourself many times before you see it transforming your life. The Local Peace Economy Workbook is a way to meditate on pivoting to Peace Economy thinking.
