I 
109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3760 
To establish a Department of Peace and Nonviolence. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 14, 2005 
Mr. KUCINICH (for himself, Mr. ABERCROMBIE, Ms. BALDWIN, Mr. BOSWELL, 
Ms. CORRINE BROWN of Florida, Mr. BROWN of Ohio, Ms. CARSON, Mr. 
CLAY, Mr. CONYERS, Mr. CUMMINGS, Mr. DAVIS of Illinois, Mrs. DAVIS 
of California, Mr. DEFAZIO, Mr. EVANS, Mr. FALEOMAVAEGA, Mr. FARR, 
Mr. FILNER, Mr. GRIJALVA, Mr. GUTIERREZ, Mr. HINCHEY, Mr. HOLT, 
Mr. HONDA, Mr. JACKSON of Illinois, Ms. JACKSON-LEE of Texas, Ms. 
EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON of Texas, Mrs. JONES of Ohio, Ms. KAPTUR, 
Ms. KILPATRICK of Michigan, Ms. LEE, Mr. LEWIS of Georgia, Mrs. 
MALONEY, Ms. MCCOLLUM
of Minnesota, Mr. MCDERMOTT, Mr. 
MCGOVERN, Ms. MCKINNEY, Mr. MEEKS of New York, Mr. GEORGE 
MILLER of California, Ms. MOORE of Wisconsin, Mr. NADLER, Mr. 
OBERSTAR, Mr. OLVER, Mr. OWENS, Mr. PAYNE, Mr. RAHALL, Mr. RAN-
GEL, Mr. RYAN of Ohio, Mr. SABO, Mr. SANDERS, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, 
Mr. SERRANO, Mr. SHERMAN, Ms. SOLIS, Mr. STARK, Mr. THOMPSON 
of Mississippi, Mr. TOWNS, Ms. WATERS, Ms. WATSON, and Ms. WOOL-
SEY) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 
on Government Reform, and in addition to the Committees on Inter-
national Relations, Judiciary, and Education and the Workforce, for a pe-
riod to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for con-
sideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the com-
mittee concerned 
A BILL 
To establish a Department of Peace and Nonviolence. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 
‘‘Department of Peace and Nonviolence Act’’. 
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for 
this Act is as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. 
Sec. 2. Findings. 
TITLE I—ESTABLISHMENT OF DEPARTMENT OF PEACE AND 
NONVIOLENCE 
Sec. 101. Establishment of Department of Peace and Nonviolence. 
Sec. 102. Responsibilities and powers. 
Sec. 103. Principal officers. 
Sec. 104. Office of Peace Education and Training. 
Sec. 105. Office of Domestic Peace Activities. 
Sec. 106. Office of International Peace Activities. 
Sec. 107. Office of Technology for Peace. 
Sec. 108. Office of Arms Control and Disarmament. 
Sec. 109. Office of Peaceful Coexistence and Nonviolent Conflict Resolution. 
Sec. 110. Office of Human Rights and Economic Rights. 
Sec. 111. Intergovernmental Advisory Council on Peace and Nonviolence. 
Sec. 112. Consultation required. 
Sec. 113. Authorization of appropriations. 
TITLE II—ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS AND TRANSFERS OF 
AGENCY FUNCTIONS 
Sec. 201. Staff. 
Sec. 202. Transfers. 
Sec. 203. Conforming amendments. 
TITLE III—FEDERAL INTERAGENCY COMMITTEE ON PEACE AND 
NONVIOLENCE 
Sec. 301. Federal Interagency Committee on Peace and Nonviolence. 
TITLE IV—ESTABLISHMENT OF PEACE DAY 
Sec. 401. Peace Day. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) On July 4, 1776, the Second Continental 
Congress unanimously declared the independence of 
the 13 colonies, and the achievement of peace was
recognized as one of the highest duties of the new 
organization of free and independent States. 
(2) In declaring, ‘‘We hold these truths to be 
self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that 
they are endowed by their Creator with certain 
unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Lib-
erty and the Pursuit of Happiness’’, the drafters of 
the Declaration of Independence, appealing to the 
Supreme Judge of the World, derived the creative 
cause of nationhood from ‘‘the Laws of Nature’’ and 
the entitlements of ‘‘Nature’s God’’, such literal re-
ferrals in the Declaration of Independence thereby 
serving to celebrate the unity of human thought, 
natural law, and spiritual causation. 
(3) The architects of the Declaration of Inde-
pendence ‘‘with a firm reliance on the protection of 
divine providence’’ spoke to the connection between 
the original work infusing principle into the struc-
ture of a democratic government seeking to elevate 
the condition of humanity, and the activity of a 
higher power which moves to guide the Nation’s for-
tune. 
(4) The Constitution of the United States of 
America, in its Preamble, further sets forth the in-
surance of the cause of peace in stating: ‘‘We the
People of the United States, in Order to Form a 
more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domes-
tic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, pro-
mote the general welfare, and secure the Blessings 
of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.’’ 
(5) The Founders of this country gave America 
a vision of freedom for the ages and provided people 
with a document which gave this Nation the ability 
to adapt to an undreamed of future. 
(6) It is the sacred duty of the people of the 
United States to receive the living truths of our 
founding documents and to think anew to develop 
institutions that permit the unfolding of the highest 
moral principles in this Nation and around the 
world. 
(7) During the course of the 20th century, 
more than 100,000,000 people perished in wars, and 
now, at the dawn of the 21st century, violence seems 
to be an overarching theme in the world, encom-
passing personal, group, national, and international 
conflict, extending to the production of nuclear, bio-
logical, and chemical weapons of mass destruction 
which have been developed for use on land, air, sea, 
and in space.