About P:5Y

Peace in 5 Years (P:5Y) is a global collaboration to create world peace in five years.

Starting with our launch on Februay 14, 2009 until the deadline of February 14, 2014, P:5Y collaborators will work in the areas of media, marketing, global project management software, grassroots organizing, and a Global Peace Treaty to effectively and measurably put an end to politically organized violence.

The world has the knowledge, resources, and tools--including global communications networks--to create peace. If we continue to tolerate war as a legitimate means of conflict resolution, we risk continued misery, global problems, and even total destruction of our species (and many others).

The co-founders of P:5Y, Amber Lupton and Nathan Otto, conceived giving peace a deadline on February 10, 2008.

In the past year they have introduced P:5Y at an international peace conference in Prague and traveled around the world to speak with global leaders and dignitaries--such as F. W. de Klerk, Václav Havel, and the Dalai Lama--and groups of philanthropists about the best contribution they could make to the world.

This resulted in their book, Give Peace a Deadline: What Ordinary People Can Do To Cause World Peace in Five Years, as well as the formation of P:5Y. (You can download a free ebook copy of the book here.)

There are four cornerstones to creating peace in five years. These are R-I-C-E:

• Reposition “world peace” in the mainstream as achievable, clear, simple, and necessary. Take it out of the doveish wimpy political trap: war is limp, peace is sexy.
• Include Everyone: right, left, peacemakers, politicians, global leaders, locals, warlords, hairdressers, rednecks, farmers, pilots, intellectuals--everyone. Generate intense interest and momentum.
• Collaborate: increase collaboration among individuals, NGO’s, governments, agencies, universities, corporations, and the military to coordinate and complement peace efforts.
• Ease of Use: make the practices of peace safety user-friendly and easy to understand, and create global peace management tools that answer the question for anyone “what can I do for world peace?” Help people make meaningful, measurable, and accountable commitments with deadlines.

P:5Y demands world peace by February 14th, 2014. We have developed a non-profit concept, effort, cause, and movement inspiring all citizens of the world, in all facets of life, to commit action towards an innovative, planned peace "epidemic."

P:5Y officially launches February 14, 2009 and is committed to the deadline for world peace safety of February 14, 2014 as measured by The Economist newspaper.

P:5Y is a social movement dedicated to changing perceptions globally and inspiring a new and bold way of thinking about what peace is and how to attain it.

Welcome to P:5Y!