PEP: Throw a PEP party

PEP: Throw a PEP Party

Throw A PEP Peace Petition Party

This page offers some suggestions for OPTION B – Hosting a PEP Peace Petition Party.
These can take place in your home, or at some public venue: a church hall, your neighborhood rec center, a peace or civic organization meeting room, a library meeting room.

A PEP party needs to be a happy, even joyful celebration.
PEP is a campaign to deliver great good news to the global community: ending warfare between neighboring societies is something humans have repeatedly done, and if we summon the will to do it, we have models to guide us in how to end warfare between all nations, and even how we might fashion an Earth Peace System.

Think first of hosting an intimate event in your home, even for a small group of less than ten. Intimate maybe is best so everyone can engage and ask questions. But somewhat larger groups can work through the same items and discussion in a slightly larger venue than your home.

When you invite folks to the party, tell them to please bring their cell phones or another digital device because they may want to use it to follow along with the presentation or sign something using it.

You’ll need to be able to access the Internet on a decent size screen so you can show PEP's YouTube video, "Ending War is Possible. Here's Why and How," and explore features of the PEP website. The video was produced by the PEP Team and is based on the work of anthropologist Doug Fry et. al. [https://youtu.be/OhvUVTg2Pns?si=UMOxHIXbYAPnZMWD]

As people arrive, consider setting the mood by having some great peace songs playing in the background.

After introductions and perhaps getting some refreshments in hand, you can introduce why you've invited them, explaining how you're connected to PEP. And then take them to the website: www.projectenduringpeace.org. Show them how to get there by having them type in projectenduringpeace.org in their device's browser.

By way of introduction, you might want to scroll down the homepage [and have them do so] and read to them out loud the quotation from the son of the founder of the Baha'i faith. It stresses the role of women....a hindrance to war. Point out that PEP's campaign is women-inspired and women-led and works in partnership with like-minded men, like the author of the quote.

Now watch the 17 min. video together. Afterward, take time for questions and discussion about the video. Then explore the PEP website a bit. For example, point out the page that explains how a treaty would work.

Then go to the link to Change.org that is found right under the link to the video. Explain that the party has two goals: to show a video and to offer the chance to sign a petition. Explain that showing the PEP video is the heart of PEP's 's educational commitment, and that offering a petition that people can sign is the heart of PEP's first action offering.

Have everyone click on the link so that all are able to see the petition on their device. They will also be able to see how many people have signed to date , since the petition's launch in August 2024.

Read the whole petition out loud as they follow along. It will explain that once a year the signatures will be sent to heads of nation states and to the relevant person at the United Nations who can introduce a resolution to the UN General Assembly to initiate treaty negotiations . The three-year petition effort is to secure enough signatures--at minimum 100,000--to get the attention of those leaders who can set up peace negotiations for a treaty to end international wars.

After reading the petition, take a bit of time to point out a few ways ending such wars would change life for the better AND ask them to think of and share other things we could do, things that organizations they belong to could benefit from, with money no longer being spent supporting what has become a war industry.

And after reading the petition, give them time to sign it, and perhaps get renewed refreshments. Make sure to avoid making them feel at all pressured to do so. They should feel free to take time to think about it…although caution them that if they put it off, they may forget to come back to do it.

Please note how many sign the petition so you can send useful feedback to the PEP Team with the form below.

Something to take Away

After they've had a chance to sign the petition, think of an activity the group can do, something they can take away, that will serve as a reminder of PEP and its goal:

Something as simple as supplying them with a 3X5 card and some pens. At the top they can write out Project Enduring Peace with a colorful pen, and then list the names of 5-10 people they plan to tell about PEP -or-
Something more complicated and more time consuming...making a beaded friendship-type bracelet! Walk them through making one that incorporates the initials PEP. They can wear the bracelet and when people ask what PEP stands for, explain about PEP and its goal. If you can't afford to pay for the supplies, you could ask them to make a donation to you for the refreshments and the bracelet supplies. Or, they may donate the bracelet to you and you can use a bracelet as a gift to other people you introduce to PEP who sign the petition.
If they like t-shirts, direct them to a place where they and other PEP mech can be purchased. (coming soon).

You've never made a bead bracelet? You'll have to do some research on making bead bracelet for beginners. :-)
The key is to have it be a bead bracelet that many women would wear that incorporates beads that spell out PEP.

It's your party. Be creative. Have fun and fellowship as you work together for a great cause.

Please let us know the following about your party.

PEP: Throw a PEP Party

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