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Dear Visitor,

Governments For Peace was set up so city, county, state, national or other governments that are actively engaged in the only proven peace-creating program could inform the public of their involvement and their ongoing commitment to helping create a peaceful world. For a government to become a member, 1% of the top level governing officials must be participating in the program. They can be counted in the total for the government.

Since you may not have read the home page of For Peace, that program is Transcendental Meditation. Hundreds of studies have been done on the TM program and the findings published in major scientific journals as well as various magazines. The research shows that the TM programs create a “peace effect.”

“Maharishi predicted in 1960 that if just one percent of the world’s population practiced the Transcendental Meditation technique, there would be an end to war. In 1974, scientists noted a growing number of cities where one percent of the population had learned the Transcendental Meditation technique. They looked at crime statistics in these “one percent” cities, they found that when a city reached the one percent level there was a decrease in the crime rate. At the same time, matched control cities maintained an increase in crime rate—as did the United States as a whole. They named this phenomenon the Maharishi Effect.” (From www.tm.org) More research can be found at http://www.istpp.org/crime_prevention/.

To find programs that can help your state, look at www.gfcny.net and www.uspeacegovernment.org.

If you would like to talk to a government official involved in the program, click on the government name on the left. Doing so will take you to the page with contact information.

If you have any problems, please contact the For Peace office.