The first rule was to make three attempts to call on anyone who is engaging in violence to ask him to stop. After the third request, the combined strength of all the people who believe in the Great Peace would be used to end the violence. The nations require people to stop fighting and then they withdraw their forces and invite them to join the Confederacy. At one time there were about 63 other Indian nations gathered around the Five Nations as one unit. The Peacemaker described human nature as embodied more in treaty-making than in the Great Law.
Negative emotions diminish the ability to think clearly.
We have to pay attention to how our emotions invade our thinking. When the Iroquois sit down to do business with a person, the first thing they do is send wampum belts over to him one at a time, each one bearing a message. The first wampum greets the people who have come, symbolically brushing and cleaning them off from their journey. With this one, I rub the blood off of your clothing and with this one I brush off your seat. I take the pain out of your heart.