Starting with “docs” in their most literal sense: as documents (books, articles, archives), this site includes documents of various traditions of peacemaking from antiquity into the late twentieth century. These include narratives, original sources, bibliographies, and other reference materials, some hosted on this site, some linked to e-book sites or online stores like Amazon.com, and others to library catalogs like WorldCat and to online archives of peace and justice.

We’re also adding other types of “documents,” visual (images, maps, filmographies and film clips, YouTube links and other files) and verbal (music catalogs, audio and sound files), as well as interactive maps, timelines, and pages on peacemaking in theater, dance, architecture, sculpture, painting, and the other arts.

We’ll also examine how peace and justice emerge from our most basic needs and daily life: our food, clothing, shelter, transportation and leisure.

Finally, PeaceDocs is a play on two of the other meanings of “doc” the first, a teaching, as in “doctrines,” and the second on “doctors” both as teachers and healers: docs teach, learn and make the world whole as they act. We hope that we’ll all learn, enjoy, teach and contribute to this site as it continues to grow and joins other resources in the online community.

We think we’ll find that peace is all around us, if we want it.

Last revised 7.22.08