Deep peace is:

• More than a move to the middle ground of compromise; it is a transformation of sight, understanding, will, and love.
• Spiritual in essence, supporting us and having the power to profoundly shift social, cultural, religious, economic, and political trajectories.
• Fluid, reflective, self-examining, timely, and responsive to both historic and present contexts (even religious ones) that must remain fluid, even if fragile.
• Inclusive, non-warring, first ground and sacred ground that opens space where defenses of fear and division are progressively released and a new field is seeded with what is most essentially sought – those things that hold familiar resonance and hope
• Created in the seeking by those seeking it.
• A phenomenological-hermeneutic process – re-examining and exploring new interpretations of language that has been usurped (e.g., “homeland,” “identity,” “justice,” “peace”).
• Painful, freeing, disturbing, courageous, and powerful – seeding into places opened by acts of sacrifice and military valour sensibilities of soul that breed hope and cause a deeper sense of personal, racial, cultural, religious, and national purpose to be born.