2026 · Peacebuilders
Fundamental Peace: The Source Book
The state beneath the peace of treaties and the peace of justice
The source book of Fundamental Peace. Twenty-seven chapters and twenty-two figures: the coining, the perennial testimony across traditions, the FP20 scale, the Ground Route method, the six wounds and their virtues — and the arithmetic that carries peace from one person to ten billion.
Inside the book
- The third peace
Not the absence of conflict, not the presence of justice — the inner ground from which a person responds instead of reacts.
- The FP20 scale
Twenty statements, four components, five minutes. Appendix A of the book, live on this site as a free assessment.
- The Ground Route
Ground. Transmute. Choose. Return. The daily engine that turns a glimpse into a stage.
- Six wounds, six virtues
Abandonment, rejection, humiliation, betrayal, injustice, insignificance — and the five-step alchemy that carries each toward what it was hiding.
“Peace that depends on the arrangement holding is not peace. It is a truce with good manners.”
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