Being an organization which is collaborative in nature and incorporates a wide range of disciplines, our mission has elements in three key component areas, described individually.

Cultural Arts
PeaceTroupe seeks to:

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1) integrate the cultural arts into the continuing search for community;

2) support the work of visual, literary and performing artists and organizations and to provide skills and resources which enrich the relationships between these artists and their communities;

3) publish and produce material which furthers an understanding of the role of the arts, culture and community in local, regional, national and international contexts;

4) increase access and encourage exposure to the cultural arts for each member of those communities in which we work;

5) encourage young people to participate in the process and product of artistic creation and to develop a respect for the role of the artist in the evolution of human culture;

Community Building
Peace Troupe seeks to:

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6) aid individuals and organizations in their efforts to activate and animate their communities;

7) provide an access to tools for use in the school, family, workplace and other environments which allow a broad use of the cultural arts as social experience;

8) examine the components of culture and develop ways to bring these components into greater focus in community life;

9) create educational opportunities which enhance the academic experience through exposure to, and study of, issues of the human condition;

10) empower young people to take an active role as functioning members of their communities;

Nonviolent Peacemaking
Peace seeks to:

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11) offer alternatives for those who wish to discover nonviolent ways of making social change and affecting social justice;

12) foster collaboration between, and support the efforts of, those individuals and organizations engaged in the struggle for nonviolence;

13) encourage and provide tools to individuals and groups who are engaged in actual or immanent social conflict to look to methods of resolution other than violence;

14) interpose art, artists and peacemakers between individuals and groups who are engaged in actual or immanent social conflict.

Synthesis
In that these 14 elements are inherently linked within our mission, Peace Troupe seeks to:

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o design, implement and evaluate methods, models and structures whose purpose is to synthesize all, or subsets of, the elements of this mission; and to

o initiate and maintain collaborative relationships with those individuals and organizations whose purpose is related to all, or subsets of, the elements of this mission.