Common Cause And Vision Lifecycle (CCVL)
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A Generic Mezzanine-Down Internet-Based Peacebuilding Process
CCVL is a flexible and customizable framework designed to bridge cultural, social, religious, and political divides at the grassroots level. It equips community leaders—such as mayors, pastors, and heads of organizations—with the tools to build trust between communities, even when participants are geographically distant. By leveraging internet technologies and modern project management methods, CCVL enables measurable, trackable outcomes.
Important Limitation:
CCVL is not suited for resolving military conflicts and should not be used in contexts involving active aggression, such as riots, wars, military invasions, or occupations.
CCVL addresses the three core challenges of global grassroots peacebuilding: distance, communication, and trust. It empowers leaders from diverse linguistic and national backgrounds to collaborate effectively, align on shared goals, and foster mutual trust.
Deployment Formats:
1. Covenant Writing:
A low-profile format with limited grassroots involvement—ideal as an entry point.
2. Competitions:
A high-visibility format that maximizes grassroots engagement and participation.
3. Media Alignment:
A discreet approach that achieves significant grassroots impact through strategic messaging.
For each format, the lifecycle process must undergo continuous testing, revision, and refinement. Automation should only be introduced once the customized process has reached a mature and stable state.
VISION
An avalanche of grassroots peacebuilding initiatives implemented through various CCVL formats and coordinated via new social media platforms and applications
Limitations
- Because CCVL Internet applications are not available yet, the process can only be applied manually.
- Does not resolve military conflicts in-progress
There is a need for a peacebuilding process that satisfies the stringent requirements many faith communities impose. These requirements are often the very reason trust-building across communities fails. A successful approach must:
- Align with both conservative and liberal interpretations across different faiths.
- Preserve community boundaries—no joint public gatherings, congregations, rituals, or interfaith services.
- Remain strictly nonpolitical.
- Be grassroots-driven.
- Shall not restrict missionary or outreach efforts.
- Be scalable—starting at the local level and capable of expanding globally.
Sections Below are Not Complete
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. 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. 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)
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Submitted By: Visions International, Inc.
Creator: Ayman Alhasan
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