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Peter DuMont

Peter Bruce DuMont • Profile of A Visionary

Peter Bruce DuMont is Founding President of the STAR ALLIANCE™ • GOOD WILL EDUCATION FOUNDATION FOR ALL™. In this role, he serves as integrative author of the STAR ALLIANCE Declaration and Pledge sets proclaiming Highest Civic Ideals for our humanity.

DuMont holds a B.A. in Peace and Conflict Studies from the University of California at Berkeley, and certificates in Nonprofit Management and Small Studio Production from U.C. Extension. In the 1970’s, he studied with the late, great Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, founder of Maharishi University of Management and the Transcendental Meditation (T.M.) program. He trained and coached thousands of people in the T.M. technique and administered courses in its theoretical aspect: The Science of Creative Intelligence. DuMont’s T.M. teaching career emphasized government, business, and professional outreach in San Francisco and Alameda Counties. From 1978 to 1979 he generated pioneering proposals aimed at initial public funding for T.M. via the Alameda Regional Criminal Justice Planning Board.

In 1978, DuMont traveled to Tehran and Abadan, Iran, with the T.M. organization as part of a special World Peace Project of the time.

In the early-to-mid 1980s, he worked for Lighthouse Properties in residential real estate and for the American Network long-distance phone company.

In 1984-’85, faced with the terrible, global, existential threat of the Cold War Nuclear Arms Race — yet filled with hope from his T.M. training and experience — DuMont responded creatively. Over a period of nine months, he crafted a founding Citizen’s Philosophy Statement for Peace. (Please see the Founding Documents page at www.STARALLIANCE.org.) In the Spring of 1985, in San Francisco he succeeded in personally handing off his work to U.S. Secretary of State George P. Shultz and the Soviet Union’s Dr. Georgi Arbatov, founder of the U.S.-Canadian Studies Institute (ISKRAN), after their respective speaking engagements. [Secretary Shultz spoke before the United Nations Association; and Arbatov, who was a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, The Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R., and senior advisor to Head of State Mikhail Gorbachev, spoke before the Commonwealth Club.]

That summer, DuMont teamed up with U.C. Berkeley alum Ernest Daniel Siravo to co-found Stars for Peace International. The following year, in 1986, DuMont conceived of a strong new trademark name for the nonprofit organization: STAR ALLIANCE; and the founding partners registered their new corporate name with the California Secretary of State.

The pair led their organization’s multiple activities through the successful conclusion of the Cold War, and prior to a significant period of organizational retrenchment starting in 1991. During this time, DuMont returned to U.C. Berkeley to complete his degree in Peace and Conflict Studies, and the pair personally visited seven missions at United Nations Headquarters in New York City in the Spring of 1992.

From the mid 1990s, DuMont survived a daunting series of experiences which he later came to understand had one connecting principle: Economic Discrimination Before the Law. He continued persistently to evolve his concepts for peace, nevertheless.

DuMont’s body of lifetime creative concept work includes:

The Star Citizens’ DECLARATION and PLEDGE sets. These public documents outline behavioral principles toward humanity’s Highest Civic Ideals, and serve as instruments of education, inspiration, and commitment for populations from locality to globe.

The STAR ALLIANCE SHOW — a series of TV and Radio interviews on Quality-of-Life Media™ topics. (Weekly from 1987—1990, and periodically from 1997—2002.)

The STAR OF PEACE™ Award: celebrating lifetime contributions to sustainable peace and love. Supplemented by STAR ALLIANCE Certificates of Appreciation.

The VOCABULARY OF PEACE™: an innovative approach to Civic Peace Values education employing key words and derivation-enhanced insights; the colorful, symbolic STAR ALLIANCE logo (The Arc of Rainbow Stars™); and the universal human hand. (The approach can easily be integrated into standard language classes.)

THE STAR ALLIANCE FRIENDSHIP HANDSHAKE™: a fun, positive, and powerfully- bonding educational affirmation for adults and children.

THE RING OF ALL NATIONS™ [With pro-bono architect William Fisher]: a concept to create interconnected peace-academy facilities worldwide. Peace Ring™ structures will host democratic assemblies, celebrations of life and the arts, sports, and entertainment, and provide inspiring museum and retreat spaces. (A monument atop Angel Island is envisioned to accompany the prototype, city-block diameter, round floating museum-theater on San Francisco Bay. For further details: Please see www.STARALLIANCE.org.

STAR ALLIANCE ACADEMY: A practical retreat-training program for civil servants including educators, first responders, military professionals and veterans; business leaders, other professionals and the public. Programs will combine teaching skills for promoting STAR ALLIANCE Civic Principles and training in the most researched and verified techniques for stress-reduction, human development, and good health.

In August of 2019, DuMont represented the STAR ALLIANCE Foundation for All to the historic 68th United Nations Civil Society Conference held in Salt Lake City, Utah.

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Note: DuMont’s evolving Declarations and Pledges have been endorsed by a wide range of distinguished citizens in the course of their 34-year evolution. Please see a partial listing on the People page at: STARALLIANCE.org.


Contact information:

P.O. Box 11125 • Berkeley • California 94712
www.STARALLIANCE.org

Priority Email: [email protected]

• M. (Best): 510-220-7464 • Landline: 510-848-1818


Addenda:

Everyone Can Be A Star, says DuMont, by trying their best to learn, honor, and practice all the declared "Highest Civic Ideals" (www.STARALLIANCE.org) in good balance and proportion to each practical life situation.

The biggest and most reliable "stars" of STAR ALLIANCE, though, are the points of civic principle themselves — the declared "natural laws" of healthy, sustainable relationship that transcend the world’s divisions of culture and fair interest.

DuMont sees that these principles, properly expressed and promoted, can help the people of the world come together more quickly and safely to survive and thrive together in genuine, holistic peace and love.

He feels these civic principles should be taught systematically in public schools and other tax-supported programs and facilities, including corrections; and applied widely in business and public policy. Consistent with his favorite slogan: Teamwork Makes the Dream Work!™ he hopes to see widespread adoption of the proposed STAR ALLIANCE Highest Civic Ideals for humanity.

DuMont has written to every United States President since the Reagan era, including select leaders of Russia, China, and other nations. At a critical juncture in 2017, he wrote to Chairman Kim Jong Un of the DPRK (and copied President Trump), with seemingly remarkable initial results. (Please see the DPRK Policy Advisory page at STARALLIANCE.org.) To followup properly, and to share the declared ideals with every nation and population, private and public support is needed.

DuMont and STAR ALLIANCE appeal to a greater sense of civic responsibility and teamwork generally, and specifically: toward a Universal Right to Civil Counsel.

STAR ALLIANCE can be a powerful coalition of sister institutions, businesses, and government agencies: endorsing and promoting Humanity’s Highest Civic Ideals and projecting them to U.S. and world populations. CAMPAIGN GOOD WILL can increase public safety — and ultimately quality of life for all — in a catalytic manner. Each reader can be a part of achieving these honorable goals.

A Star Alliance People’s Lasting Peace Fund is envisioned as an endowment with widespread participation from citizens, VIP’s, institutions, and governments: towards Universal Education for Civic Peace Values — Awareness, Inspiration, and Participation, generation after generation.

Would you like to consider being a founding contributor or volunteer?

Together, let us Achieve the Honorable!

Please call or text Peter directly at 510-220-7464 to discuss the possibilities!


Public Address:

P.O. Box 11125 • Berkeley • California 94712
www.STARALLIANCE.org

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