We are a growing network of people and organizations in over 20 countries. By signing the pledge, you will lend your voice to a campaign that seeks to empower the voiceless in a focused effort to influence policy makers to pursue negotiation, mediation, and principled dialogue as necessary alternatives to war and violence.

We will add your name to a growing network capable of moving together in a growing number of countries. By signing the pledge, you will add legitimacy and force to future appeals, strengthen network-building activities, and be registered as one of the global majority. (We affirm that your name and contact information will NOT be shared with any other organization and that we will provide only periodic updates and will not flood your email!)

As you join us with your name and email address as a signatory to the Global Pledge, please consider forwarding our web link or a copy of the pledge to your friends, family, and co-workers. As 10 becomes 100, 100 becomes 1,000, 1,000 becomes 10,000... Global Majority will be able to raise a voice that will resonate with the will and aspirations of the true global majority! Thank you for signing the Global Pledge and affirming your commitment to peace and non-violent conflict resolution.

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THE GLOBAL PLEDGE

Declaration of Principles
Promoting Dialogue: Giving Voice to the Global Majority

Preamble: Recognizing that violence is too often the preferred option for resolving conflict and that the spiral of violence continues to impact innocents; considering the need to convert global military budgets to investment in programs that will uplift the human condition; recognizing the multi-faceted nature of violence rooted in political marginalization, poverty, racial and gender discrimination, environmental degradation, population displacement, and inadequate healthcare (especially as manifest in HIV/AIDS crisis), and believing that the global majority want peace but too often lack a voice in the decisions affecting our lives, I endorse the following principles as part of the Global Majority Pledge with the goal of developing a global network to pressure governments and others resorting to violence to sit down and negotiate:

• Peace can be achieved through the active participation of the global majority;
• Non-violent conflict resolution (NVCR) must be adopted and practiced by all;
• Constructive dialogue, negotiation, mediation, and other forms of non violent conflict resolution can replace military and armed conflict;
• Gender, racial, and ethnic equality must be respected as critical to the achievement of effective cooperation and dialogue among people and should be prioritized in education, government relations, business, and diplomacy;
• Inclusion of diverse stakeholders and interest groups in constructive dialogue is critical to the achievement of durable and non-violent alternatives to violence;
• To be human is to respect the humanity of others. Respect can be cultivated, earned, and modeled;
• Social responsibility must be practiced and promoted by all sectors of the global community including civil society, governments, businesses, labor, religious organizations, academia, the media, and the military;
• Non-violent direct action that is creative and supportive of dialogue should be supported at the local, regional, and global level among individuals, organizations, and networks;
• The practice of peace will build the path to peace.

I _______________, a member of the global majority, endorse the nine point path to peace, commit to practice non-violence while joining the global movement to promote non-violent conflict resolution at all levels of human engagement.

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