Common Cause And Vision Lifecycle (CCVL)
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A generic mezzanine-down internet-based peacebuilding process. CCVL can be tailored and customized across various formats to bridge cultural, social, religious, or political divides at the grassroots level. It equips community leaders—such as mayors, pastors, and organizational heads—with the tools to foster trust between communities, even as their members remain physically apart. Utilizing internet applications and modern project management techniques, CCVL ensures measurable outcomes. CCVL has an important limitation: It is not suited for military conflict resolution and is inapplicable during active aggression (e.g., riots, wars, military invasions or occupation).
CCVL resolves the three fundamental challenges of global grassroots peacebuilding: Distance, Communication, and Trust. It empowers leaders from diverse linguistic and national backgrounds to collaborate effectively, set common objectives, and cultivate trust.
CCVL can be deployed in various formats, including:
Covenant Writing: Offers a low-profile approach with limited grassroots involvement, excellent starting point.
Competitions: Ensures high visibility and maximizes grassroots participation.
Media Alignment: Maintains a low profile while achieving maximum grassroots impact.
For each format, the lifecycle process must undergo continuous testing, revisions, and enhancements. Automation is introduced once the customized process has matured
VISION
An avalanche of grassroots peacebuilding initiatives across the world applied in various CCVL formats and managed by a new social media websites and applications
Limitations
- Because CCVL Internet applications are not available yet, the process can only be applied manually.
- Does not resolve military conflicts
A peace building process that meets stringement peacebuilding requirements many faiths impose is needed. These requirements are the main reason many communities are unable to build trust. The requirements include:
- Must be consistent with conservative and liberal views of all faiths.
- Must keep communities segregated. No joint public assemblies, congregations, rituals, etc.,
- No interfaith services.
- Must be nonpolitical.
- Must be grassroots.
- Must not limit missionary work.
- Must be scalable: start local and grow global.
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Phase I
Establish common ground (black blocks or the foundation in diagram below) by:
Articulate common values, principles, virtues, beliefs, etc., in a new covenant. Give the new covenant a name.All participating community leaders sign the Covenant in a public ceremony.Publish Covenant.Hold PR campaign Publicize and Promote:The Covenant.The signatories and their communities.What is next: Phase II
Establish common ground (black blocks or the foundation in diagram below) by:
Articulate common values, principles, virtues, beliefs, etc., in a new covenant. Give the new covenant a name.All participating community leaders sign the Covenant in a public ceremony.Publish Covenant.Hold PR campaign Publicize and Promote:The Covenant.The signatories and their communities.What is next: Phase II
Phase IIInspire the objectives of this initiative one Common Cause at a time (i.e., add one block on top of the Common Ground - diagram above). To build or inspire a single Common Cause, community leaders must apply a single CCVL cycle (below). Cycle duration might extend to a few years.
- Community leaders jointly select one common cause to address the most critical challenge facing their communities.
- Community leaders jointly develop a five years vision based on the selected common cause. This is accomplished during a professionally managed vision-planning workshop. The workshop must be attended by community leadership or their representatives.
- The selected common cause and pledges to fulfill the common cause are articulated, signed by all participating leaders, and added as articles to the Covenant.
- To realize the vision, each represented community will develop their own plans and propose SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, Time Bound) objectives to be achieved only within their own community.
- These SMART objectives will then be negotiated and approved by representatives of the other community leaders in a virtual Peacemakers SMART Conference.
- Leaders will independently work within their communities in their own way to fulfill these SMART goals.
- An independent professional organization will measure achievements and publish results.
- Community leaders meet again at the conclusion of CCVL cycle in the Peacemaker Champions Conference to:
- Review, Evaluation, Reporting, and Recommendations:
- Review and approve accomplishment reports
- Review reports of current challenges
- Recommend a common cause for the next CCVL cycle, and
- Recognize the new peace champions (community leaders)