Welcome to Peace Through Commerce
Our Mission: PTC advances prosperity and peace by creating, teaching, and facilitating solutions to complex challenges that raise consciousness.
Who We Are
Peace Through Commerce is a global nonprofit organization with a unique method of peacebuilding that unites civil society, government and business — large and small — as collaborators. We seek to advance peace and solve complex global issues such as conflict, poverty, and inequality by using multi-sector consciousness and values technology called the Matrix of Peace Systems Model.
PTC Engages
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PTC launches the #IAmAPeaceBuilder Campaign
PTC’s Accelerating Women Entrepreneurs’ Fellowship Program brings together women in the Middle East to showcase how entrepreneurship can transform conflict into healing and prosperity.
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PTC at the Nobel Peace Prize Forum Oslo, December 2017
PTC is honored to be title event partner of the Forum, where we utilized our model to analyze issues related to indigenous people’s rights and environmental protection.
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Philomena Blees, CEO, presenting the Matrix of Peace Systems Model
PTC premiered its peacebuilding model at the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize Forum, Minneapolis, to amplify the work of Nobel Laureate Kailash Satyarthi and his mission to end child trafficking.
How We Work in the World
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CONVENE & EDUCATE
We bring together leaders, organizations, businesses and ideas to catalyze new, multi-sector approaches to accelerate peacebuilding.
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PARTNER & CONSULT
We collaborate with partners in peace-building and work with clients from different sectors to create context-specific solutions for advancing peace and prosperity.
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ON THE GROUND PROGRAMS
In Accelerating Women Entrepreneurs’ program, we focus on and demonstrate how women can make their own communities more conscious, peaceful and prosperous through partnerships and trade.
Endorsements
Supporters of PTC’s mission to spread peace and prosperity
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I believe business leaders can liberate the extraordinary power of business and commerce to create a world in which all people live lives full of purpose, love, and creativity- a world of compassion, freedom, and prosperity. I endorse Peace Through Commerce because it is dedicated to teaching the principles that animate how commerce, consciousness, and law can work inter-dependently to achieve sustainable peace. I wholeheartedly endorse PTC and encourage others to give PTC their support.
John Mackey, Co-CEO and Co-Founder
Whole Foods Market
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I am deeply inspired by the wonderful work being done by the deeply committed
and visionary leaders of Peace Through Commerce
Raj Sisodiya, FW Olin Distinguished Professor
Global Business, Babson College
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We couldn’t have been better supported by Peace Through Commerce’s creative and strategic team and the
ground breaking ideas they advance through the Matrix of Peace Systems Model.
Gina Torry, Executive Director
2016 Nobel Peace Prize Forum