Who we are

Peace Through Commerce is a program of EIRO™– a strategic, global, and educational nonprofit corporation dedicated to creating a world where all people enjoy peace and prosperity. The word eiro in Greek means to join or bind together that which has been separated. EIRO’s peacebuilding technology—the Matrix of Peace Whole Systems Model™— does this by bringing together historically siloed and sometimes hostile sectors, honoring the consciousness forces at work within them, and creating a systems model to understand them. This model is the creative gift of EIRO and its family of peacebuilding programs.

EIRO powers its proprietary programs Peace Through Commerce® and Accelerating Women Entrepreneurs® along with its incubated programs Shakti Leadership™, Future Frontiers™, and Radical Social Entrepreneurs™ using Matrix whole-systems solutions to problemsolving and peacebuilding.

The Matrix of Peace Whole Systems Model–our peacebuilding technology and value-add to the world

The Matrix of Peace Whole Systems Model is a robust, multi-sector, living systems and consciousness model for designing and actualizing peaceful societies.  Its parameters assume society is conscious, dynamic, living, chaordic, and intelligent ecosystem, open to evolution, experimentation, and creative growth.

The Matrix illuminates the core values, virtues, beliefs, worldviews, and best practices for peacebuilding within and among the key societal sectors–public, private, and civil society.  It leads people to understand problems like poverty, war, inequality, and climate change from both human consciousness and best practices viewpoints.  The Matrix methodology points out areas of values-agreement and guides stakeholders to create new solutions to age-old problems from a different level of consciousness than that which created them.

The purpose of the Matrix is to create an ecosystem of societal peace.  The definition of societal peace in Matrix terminology is that time when society is generating justice, prosperity, and sustainability with peace-optimizing values and virtues such as love, compassion, and empathy sufficiently to become a self-organizing, self-balancing, self-correcting, flourishing ecosystem of societal peace.

In this framework, peace is not a static goal but rather a means to an end leading to peace and human flourishing. Communities do not achieve a “state of peace”, they achieve an “ecosystem of peace” where peace is the ongoing outcome of a healthy, well-functioning society.

In short, EIRO is  a dedicated team of peace-thinkers and peacebuilders in the “mind-changing” business.