Make Media Make Peace

If anyone reading this is willing to create a contest for the best P5Y video, please email info@p5y.org.

Creating art and media that supports co-creating a future of political conflict free of aggression is incredibly important. I wrote this for a young friend of mine, Shan, who wants to make humorous 60-second videos promoting P:5Y.

Here is the basic media message of P:5Y:

1. Peace is possible: peace is safety from war. Everyone wants to be safe. Buckle your peace belt--peace is the active practice worldwide of safety from war. War is politically organized violence--war happens predictably when conflict turns into aggression. World peace is not everyone being nice, or an end to violence. It is an end to political violent aggression.
There is a past, present and future to war and peace. If we continue as we have, our almost certain future is disastrous-anyone can look into the future and see that. So we can put the past of war and peace in the past and co-create the future of conflict.

The #1 Myth of War is that it is fought between trained soldiers. War is fought with moms, dads, children, young girls, business people, churches, temples, factories, schools, hospitals, power plants and roads. War is the NUMBER ONE humanitarian distaster.
2. Peace has a deadline: by February 14, 2014, we can co-create a world in which war a thing of the past. Five years is the right amount of time because big change happens quickly, and there is great urgency and danger. P:5Y has a plan for creating world peace in five years, it is in the book.

3. You can help: we need everyone: ordinary people, kids, moms, athletes, Republicans, church groups, corporations, activists. Peace is post-partisan. Shan--your generation gets to say "enough with the partisan bickering, let's focus on what really matters--a world with war, with advancing technology, endangers me and the children I hope to have." Sign up at p5y.org, get the book, and get to work.

Here are some message angles you can take:
Tell a story about what will happen if we do nothing. Say what is so today, and what will happen if we do nothing.

Paint a picture of what is possible in a peaceful world, and how much we want that--"what is possible for you in a world where we no longer have war?"

Tell the story of the desperation of your generation and what you are willing to do to have world peace "I'm willing to eat a frog!" "I'm willing to hop up and down on one foot for five hours!" things that are really hard--then say that although ending war is hard, it's not that hard, just register at p5y.com. Just one idea.

Anything you do should mention the book--get a copy, read it today! Available for free download at p5y.org, or in bookstores. Also mention p5y.org and registering to contribute.

Be humorous, have fun, be creative. Tell a story with a beginning, middle and end.