They will need to make lifestyle changes if they are to return more to the systems than they take. World Peace One volunteer peacemakers help people make lifestyle changes by first having them choose goals and create plans to make changes in a certain amount of time, usually about four months. These goals and plans are the person's peace pact. They represent a reasonable stretch toward a peaceful lifestyle. Then, at the end of a period of four months or so, the pact is reviewed and another is made, representing a further stretch.
Organizations can follow a similar process.
These skills give people increased time and energy to fashion more peaceful lifestyles. Of course the volunteers themselves undergo an intensive skills training, in order to teach and support others. Ongoing change requires ongoing support. So the people who are living out peace pacts need some ongoing support to make steady progress. By correspondence or by meeting one to one, the volunteers help people develop the ongoing motivation and support systems they need through their immediate families, their churches or schools, or through other already existing support groups.