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, prosperity, and happiness. The word eiro in Greek means to join or bind together that which has been separated. EIRO’s peacebuilding and problemsolving technology—the Matrix of Peace Whole Systems Model™— does this by bringing together historically siloed and sometimes hostile sectors, finding shared values, and using systems solutions to generate widespread flourishing for all life. This model and the Matrix of Peace theory of peacebuilding are the creative gifts of EIRO and its family of peacebuilding programs.

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

Matrix of Peace Theory and Model: our peacebuilding technology and value-add to the world

The Matrix of Peace Whole Systems Model is a robust, multi-sector, consciousness model of society.  Its purpose is to create an ecosystem of societal peace.  Its goal is widespread flourishing of all life.  The parameters of the model assume society is a conscious, dynamic, chaordic^®, intelligent, and progressive ecosystem, open to evolution, experimentation, creative growth, and decay.

The creation of the Matrix of Peace Whole Systems Model led to two key developments for society building. One is a whole-systems theory for peacebuilding, and one is a multi-faceted technology for applying the theory to peacebuilding and problem-solving.

The theory behind the Matrix model is that an ecosystem of societal peace ensues from public, private, and civil society sectors co-operating (not merely operating) from a field of shared values to generate justice, prosperity, and sustainability–with sustainability referring to environmental, economic, and social long-term well-being.  It leads people to understand problems like poverty, war, inequality, and climate change from both human consciousness and best practices viewpoints.  It 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.

Matrix theory outlines the biology and cosmology of peace, and, we believe, goes a long way to helping humanity unlock the source code for long-term peace.  It describes EIRO’s theory of change for achieving societal peace.

Matrix technology operationalizes Matrix theory in two disciplines:  peacebuilding education and training, and a nine-step methodology for peacebuilding and problemsolving.

The definition of societal peace in Matrix terminology is that time when society is generating sufficient outcomes of justice, prosperity, and sustainability to maintain an ecosystem of societal peace and flourishing.  In this framework, peace is not a static goal but rather a means to an end leading to widespread flourishing for all life. 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.  It is fed by peace-optimizing values and virtues such as love, compassion, and empathy.

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