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My changes include updated details about the Department of Peace(building) legislation from 2001 to 2021. Nancy Merritt, National Department of Peacebuilding Campaign, nancy@peacealliance.org
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* 1969: Senator [[Vance Hartke]] (D-Indiana) and Representative [[Seymour Halpern]] (R-New York) re-introduced bills to create a U.S. Department of Peace in the House of Representatives and the Senate. The 14 Senate cosponsors of S. 953, the "Peace Act",<ref>115 Cong. Rec. 3154 (1969)</ref> included [[Birch Bayh]] (D-IN), [[Robert Byrd]] (D-WV), [[Alan Cranston]] (D-CA), [[Daniel Inouye]] (D-HI) and [[Edmund Muskie]] (D-ME). The 67 House cosponsors included [[Ed Koch]] of New York, [[Donald M. Fraser|Donald Fraser]] of Minnesota, and [[Abner Mikva]] of Illinois, as well as Republican [[Pete McCloskey]] of California.
* 1979: Senator [[Spark Matsunaga]] (D-Hawaii) re-introduced a bill, S. 2103, "Department of Peace Organization Act of 1979" to create a U.S. Department of Peace.<ref>125 Cong. Rec. 35111 (1979)</ref>
* 2001 - 2011: Representative [[Dennis Kucinich]] (D-Ohio) introduced a bill to create a U.S. Department of Peace. It was the first such bill to address both domestic and international peacebuilding and violence prevention. A version of this bill was introduced in each session of Congress from 2001 to 2011. The 2005 and 2007 bills were
* 2005: Senator [[Mark Dayton]] (D-Minnesota) introduced legislation in the Senate to create a cabinet-level Department of Peace a week after Dennis Kucinich introduced a similar bill in the House.
* 2013 - 2021: Representative Barbara Lee (D-California) introduced a substantially similar bill to the Kucinich bill and called it the Department of Peacebuilding. She has introduced updated versions in each session of Congress since then, now H.R. 1111, and is currently supported by 19+ cosponsors. The Department of Peacebuilding Act of 2021 (DoP 2021) recognizes that systemic racism is a significant driver of violence and a key obstacle to peace. It addresses the interconnection of all life and the intersectionality of peace, justice, equality, planetary survival and other aspects of life. DoP 2021 calls for the following offices within the DoP: 1) Peace Education & Training; 2) Domestic Peacebuilding Activities; 3) International Peacebuilding Activities; 4) Technology for Peace; 5) Arms Control & Disarmament; 6) Peacebuilding Information & Research; and 7) Human Rights & Economic Rights. It
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