The Principle of Peace
Dr. Robert Yoho, MD, physician and author, from his editorial review of The Principle of Peace
One formula, every scale of conflict
Personal conflict. Online arguments that go nowhere. Communities that can't find common ground. Countries at war. A world kept in constant conflict by the news outlets and social feeds that profit from the fight.
What if there was another way? A single, simple formula that can untangle even the most entrenched disputes, from the argument at your kitchen table to a war between nations. The book asks no one to change their mind or to take a side. Only to understand. Understanding, not agreement, is what real peace is made of. The book shows you how it’s built: a simple formula and a twelve-step process that walk Fear back into Understanding, one step at a time.
Fear in. Understanding out.
The order of operations is intentional. It mirrors how peace is actually built: Understanding has to outweigh Fear before a Solution can emerge, and a Solution becomes Peace only when it is carried by Wisdom.
New to the Principle? Walk it in order.
The problem is Fear
Why every argument, from the kitchen table to the Capitol, is the same argument.
The Principle
The formula, defined. Six variables and the one that subtracts.
How it works
The Twelve-Step Peace Process, from recognizing Fear to acting with Wisdom.
Apply it
Politics, family, work. The same mechanism in different rooms.
The ideas, applied
Every essay is read aloud by the author. Read it, or listen.
The Stoics and the Variable Inside the Judgment
They split the world into what is up to you and what is not. Simple to recite, and brutal the instant something you love is at stake.
Carl Jung and the Variable Inside the Shadow
He said what we won't face in ourselves we hand to others to carry. Easy to nod at, and brutal the instant you see your face on your enemy.
Thich Nhat Hanh and the Variable Beneath the Breath
He told us to hold our anger the way a mother holds a crying baby. Gentle to say, and staggering to do the moment a real fight starts.
P.N. Yaya
P.N. Yaya is a problem solver. On a spring morning in 2009, he was given the idea this book is built on, and it pointed him toward the largest problem there is: the conflict that runs from a kitchen table to a war between nations.
He has spent the years since watching the formula work, at every scale, and refining the method that carries it. He lives in Los Angeles.
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