Sample letter in support: Advocate for PROPOSED U.S. DEPART OF PEACEBUILDING (HR 1111), please: Hello. "We need to make reducing and preventing violence a national priority. In these challenging economic times, we must find new and innovative ways to save money and maximize the effectiveness of every dollar spent. Reducing and preventing violence and expanding our capacity for nonviolent conflict resolution has the potential to save the nation hundreds of billions of dollars each year, increase our national security, and build a greater base of responsible citizenship.
The legislation holds peace as a strategic policy objective, elevating domestic and international peace policies to the highest levels of the federal government.
Current levels of violence in our nation and around the world are fiscally, environmentally and ethically unsustainable.
Scientific and medical experts from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have said, “Violence is not an insurmountable problem; it can be prevented through a thoughtful, systematic approach.” A Department of Peacebuilding gives us the platform and resources from which to launch such an approach, thus saving billions of dollars and millions of lives each year.
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has said that the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have taught us that military might is insufficient to win; that we must expand our capacity to build civil society structures (e.g., rule of law, jobs, responsible and accountable government, police and fire, basic services, etc.); and that our government is still mostly structured to deal with a post-Cold War world rather than a post-9/11 world.
Domestically, we suffer from a plague of school shootings and bullying, domestic violence, sexual assault, and gang violence. In the U.S., youth homicide rates are more than 10 times that of other first-world countries, and a World Health Organization report estimates the cost of interpersonal violence in the U.S. is in excess of $300 billion a year. We must apply new skills and practices to dealing with violence if we are to save money and lives.
Internationally, we are experiencing terrorist attacks, along with more than 20 major armed conflicts around the globe. The threat of nuclear war looms over the planet and grows with each passing year.
According to U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), an average of 16 young people are murdered every day in America—they didn’t die in a car crash, they didn’t die of a drug overdose, they were murdered. That’s more American young-people dying every day due to violence in the so-called safety of their own neighborhoods than we have service men and women dying in Iraq due to a war." Thanks for your time and attention. Truly Yours,
Sample letter in support: Advocate for PROPOSED U.S. DEPART OF PEACEBUILDING (HR 1111), please:
ReplyDeleteHello. "We need to make reducing and preventing violence a national priority. In these challenging economic times, we must find new and innovative ways to save money and maximize the effectiveness of every dollar spent. Reducing and preventing violence and expanding our capacity for nonviolent conflict resolution has the potential to save the nation hundreds of billions of dollars each year, increase our national security, and build a greater base of responsible citizenship.
The legislation holds peace as a strategic policy objective, elevating domestic and international peace policies to the highest levels of the federal government.
Current levels of violence in our nation and around the world are fiscally, environmentally and ethically unsustainable.
Scientific and medical experts from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have said, “Violence is not an insurmountable problem; it can be prevented through a thoughtful, systematic approach.” A Department of Peacebuilding gives us the platform and resources from which to launch such an approach, thus saving billions of dollars and millions of lives each year.
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has said that the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have taught us that military might is insufficient to win; that we must expand our capacity to build civil society structures (e.g., rule of law, jobs, responsible and accountable government, police and fire, basic services, etc.); and that our government is still mostly structured to deal with a post-Cold War world rather than a post-9/11 world.
Domestically, we suffer from a plague of school shootings and bullying, domestic violence, sexual assault, and gang violence. In the U.S., youth homicide rates are more than 10 times that of other first-world countries, and a World Health Organization report estimates the cost of interpersonal violence in the U.S. is in excess of $300 billion a year. We must apply new skills and practices to dealing with violence if we are to save money and lives.
Internationally, we are experiencing terrorist attacks, along with more than 20 major armed conflicts around the globe. The threat of nuclear war looms over the planet and grows with each passing year.
According to U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), an average of 16 young people are murdered every day in America—they didn’t die in a car crash, they didn’t die of a drug overdose, they were murdered. That’s more American young-people dying every day due to violence in the so-called safety of their own neighborhoods than we have service men and women dying in Iraq due to a war." Thanks for your time and attention. Truly Yours,
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