Ten Practices of Just Peacemaking

• 1. Support nonviolent direct action.
• 2. Take independent initiatives to reduce threat.
• 3. Use cooperative conflict resolution.
• 4. Acknowledge responsibility for conflict and injustice and seek repentance and forgiveness.
• 5. Advance democracy, human rights, and religious liberty.
• 6. Foster just and sustainable economic development.
• 7. Work with emerging cooperative forces in the international system.
• 8. Strengthen the United Nations and international efforts for cooperation and human rights.
• 9. Reduce offensive weapons and weapons trade.
• 10. Encourage grassroots peacemaking groups and voluntary associations.

From Just Peacemaking, edited by Glen Stassen (Pilgrim Press, 1998)