During a discussion at the height of the Iraq & Afghanistan wars in ‘03 about the grassroots word of mouth awareness for CHALK4PEACE that was causing it to grow into an event on more than one continent, the question arose- how will this bring peace? In a perfect world, if everyone is given a piece of chalk and asked to express “what does Peace look like to you?”....three things happen-                          

1) -as everyone goes out to draw on their sidewalk, playground or parking lot, strangers meet as they draw and write, and then...they are no longer strangers; 

2) -since the effort it takes to make one’s mark with chalk on the ground makes holding any sort of weapon quite awkward, to engage in this activity, one must put down all weapons and be physically focused completely away from warlike behavior;

3) -and the collective consciousness of millions of people simultaneously creating gestures with chalk about Peace in public during a global ceasefire (like Peace Day) could possibly have create an energy on world peace tantamount to the annual million youth Buddhist meditations at Wat Phra Dhammakaya Temple in Thailand. We want arrange for at least one million people simultaneously chalking 4 peace worldwide. We'd like to think it would, at least temporarily, change humanity's essential vibe.

But we won’t know until we do it.