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Riane Eisler, Center for Partnership Systems

@rianeeisler-cps.bsky.social
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Author of The Chalice & the Blade, Founder of Center for Partnership Systems. Pioneering social scientist shaping the parthership-somination paradigm.

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Riane Eisler, Center for Partnership Systems @rianeeisler-cps.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
"At least one-quarter of all home care workers will lose their right to minimum wage and overtime under the Trump administration proposal because they live in states that have no additional wage protections for home care workers."
newsfromthestates.com
Home care workers in Pa. and other states are losing minimum wage protections — and fighting back
This story was originally published by Capital & Main. For more than two decades, Denise Lugo has worked as a home care worker in Fayetteville, North Carolina, caring for elderly clients in their…
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Riane Eisler, Center for Partnership Systems @rianeeisler-cps.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
This is precisely correct!! An infrastructure of care is essential. "Far from being a private favour to mothers, care services are public infrastructure, like transport or electricity - essential to functioning societies."
undp.org
Who cares? Making Care Everyone’s Work
By Isabelle Tschan and Sneha Pathak
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Riane Eisler, Center for Partnership Systems @rianeeisler-cps.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
How does Riane Eisler’s partnership model of women’s and men’s shared leadership reframe politics, economics, and social change in a world shaped by trauma, technology, and resurgent authoritarianism?
goodmenproject.com
Partnership Studies 16: Women’s Leadership, Partnership Power, and Caring Economies
“Getting more women into leadership is not about replacing men. We are talking about enlightened men and enlightened women working together in a new model of leadership, a partnership leadership…
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Riane Eisler, Center for Partnership Systems @rianeeisler-cps.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
"Riane says the goal is not to go back in time, but to move forward with a new narrative for sex and intimate relating - beyond the domination model ... to reimagine the new way forward for women and men together." podscan.fm/podcasts/bey... d
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24: Remything Intimate Partnership with Dr. Riane Eisler - Beyond Patriarchal S*x - Podcast Episode - Podscan.fm
Listen to 24: Remything Intimate Partnership with Dr. Riane Eisler from Beyond Patriarchal S*x (0 sec) • Published Nov 14, 2025. In this conversation wit...
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Riane Eisler, Center for Partnership Systems @rianeeisler-cps.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
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Riane Eisler, Center for Partnership Systems @rianeeisler-cps.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics is now available directly from Berrett-Koehler Publishers at a 40% discount with code HOLIDAY40. Great for gift-giving, stocking-stuffing, and spreading the joy of partnership around the globe.
bkconnection.com
The Real Wealth of Nations
Bestselling author Riane Eisler (The Chalice and the Blade, which has sold more than 500,000 copies sold) shows that at the root of all of society's big problems is the fact that we don't value what…
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Riane Eisler, Center for Partnership Systems @rianeeisler-cps.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
"We have a caregiving crisis in this country, where millions are waiting on lists to get the care they need or they can’t afford it, meanwhile, those who work as caregivers are not being paid fairly for their critical role."
democraticwomenscaucus.house.gov
Democratic Women’s Caucus Launches Caregiving Task Force to Protect & Strengthen America’s Care Economy
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Friday, November 21, the Democratic Women’s Caucus (DWC) officially launched its new Caregiving Task Force.
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Riane Eisler, Center for Partnership Systems @rianeeisler-cps.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
"Women perform 76.2% of total unpaid care work globally, more than three times as much as men. W20 delegates recognised that this represents a massive, unvalued economic contribution from women, who are also left with less time to do paid work."
theconversation.com
Women’s voices at the G20: action urged on economic empowerment, care work, health, climate justice and forced labour
The G20’s Women 20 group agreed that action is needed to stop unpaid care work and forced labour, and improve women’s health and climate leadership.
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Riane Eisler, Center for Partnership Systems @rianeeisler-cps.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
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Riane Eisler, Center for Partnership Systems @rianeeisler-cps.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
"Meanwhile, men today face their own crisis. They’re flooded with propaganda urging them to reclaim dominance. Many boys and young men mistake that for strength, forgetting they’re simply part of a larger hierarchy of domination."
goodmenproject.com
Partnership Studies 15: Riane Eisler on Politics: Partnership Leadership vs. Domination
“We’re living through a period of transition from domination toward partnership. There’s a strong global movement in that direction—but it’s also being countered by a robust regression.”
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Riane Eisler, Center for Partnership Systems @rianeeisler-cps.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
What does care have to do with the poverty rate of women and children? Everything!
nwlc.org
National Snapshot: Poverty Among Women & Families in 2024 - National Women's Law Center
Between 2020 and 2021, poverty rates as measured by the Census Bureau’s Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) fell dramatically—even in the midst of a pandemic wreaking havoc on the U.S. economy—because…
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Riane Eisler, Center for Partnership Systems @rianeeisler-cps.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
"The cost burden of care that currently stifles economic stability for American families and hinders economic growth will be lifted by prioritizing public care investments and policies that support the ease of providing and caring for each other."
tcf.org
The Care Imperative: Why Investing In Care Grows America’s Economy
Executive Summary A better, more affordable country for all of us is possible, within reach, and necessary if we are to secure a brighter future for
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Riane Eisler, Center for Partnership Systems @rianeeisler-cps.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
"This vision would allow legislative and public policy developments in the field of care and migration to take into account the particular needs of migrant women and guarantee the conditions for them to be able to care for others in dignified conditions"
dejusticia.org
Care as a human right: a bi-regional agenda for the sustainability of life
The bi-regional pact on care will be key at the CELAC-EU Summit. We analyze how it seeks to recognize care as a right and reduce gender inequality.
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Riane Eisler, Center for Partnership Systems @rianeeisler-cps.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
"The domination model, which seeks to return to more rigid hierarchies, is actually causing many of the mental health issues we see today.:"
goodmenproject.com
Partnership Studies 14: Moving From Domination to Partnership in Mental Health
“Our true nature is one of care. We empathize; we cooperate.”
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Riane Eisler, Center for Partnership Systems @rianeeisler-cps.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
OUR BIGGEST DEAL - Pathways to Planetary Prosperity A pioneering Tour de Force with Foreword by John Fullerton and a historic guest essay by Dr. Riane Eisler and others. Available for pre-order now!
yonearth.org
Our Biggest Deal – Y on Earth Community
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Riane Eisler, Center for Partnership Systems @rianeeisler-cps.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
"We have a gendered system of values in economics: there’s always money for weapons, for wars, for the hero as killer—but somehow never enough for feeding, nurturing, and caring for children. It’s a very irrational system, what I call “reality stood on its head.”
goodmenproject.com
Partnership Studies 12: 'The Odyssey' Reviewed
What would a partnership-centered retelling of "The Odyssey" reveal about gender, care, and power?
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Riane Eisler, Center for Partnership Systems @rianeeisler-cps.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
"...women most often pay the heaviest price for our infrastructure failures. They lose income when they have to take unpaid time from work to provide care, they face more health risks when their health providers shut down, and they face unfair treatment ..."
nationalpartnership.org
NPWF President Jocelyn C. Frye: “Health care cuts hurt women workers — and weaken our entire economy” | National Partnership for Women & Families
NPWF President Jocelyn C. Frye testified before the House of Representatives’ Democratic Steering and Policy Committee, the Democratic Women’s Caucus and other House leaders at a hearing on “The Cost…
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Riane Eisler, Center for Partnership Systems @rianeeisler-cps.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
"Viewed through the partnership–domination continuum, today’s global resurgence of authoritarianism represents a backlash against social progress toward partnership."
goodmenproject.com
Partnership Studies 13: Domination vs Partnership: Rethinking Power
Binary oppositions such as hot and cold, night and day, do exist in nature, yet they operate on gradients. We should not discard the concept of duality altogether, but we must move beyond rigid…
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Riane Eisler, Center for Partnership Systems @rianeeisler-cps.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
"In this special podcast interview, Riane shares the four cornerstone issues with us, which she also wrote about in an essay written exclusively for our forthcoming book: Our Biggest Deal: Pathways to Planetary Prosperity."
yonearth.org
Episode 172 – Dr. Riane Eisler – Reclaiming Our True Human Nature: Evolving from Domination to Partnership Society – Y on Earth Community
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Riane Eisler, Center for Partnership Systems @rianeeisler-cps.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Eisler and Fry highlight empirical research on the comparative effects of these two systems on physical and mental health, social relations, and general human flourishing.
counterpunch.org
Professor of Peace Shares His Expertise
Ever since 7th grade when I first learned of Ghandhi’s nonviolent protests, I’ve often pondered the elusiveness of peace. Someone once said to me, “Humans
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Riane Eisler, Center for Partnership Systems @rianeeisler-cps.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
"Neuroscience shows that..., our brains retain the capacity to rewire. By becoming conscious of our “childhood programming,” we can shift away from the normalization of violence and instead nurture cultures of partnership and peace."
psychologytoday.com
Use Emerging Science to Build Peace
From civil rights to environmental justice to current events: New science shows what works to build peace—despite authoritarianism—in a global shift towards partnership.
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Riane Eisler, Center for Partnership Systems @rianeeisler-cps.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
How the myth of “human exceptionalism” created our world in crisis, and why returning to our ancient “partnership” roots is the path to healing.
goodmenproject.com
What Does It Mean to Be Human in a World Out of Balance?
Feeling lost in a world of chaos and violence? This post explores how the ancient myth of "human exceptionalism" has disconnected us from nature and each other. Discover how returning to a…
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Riane Eisler, Center for Partnership Systems @rianeeisler-cps.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
How does a partnership lens—from early caregiving to parliament—reshape brains, policies, and democracies?
goodmenproject.com
Partnership Studies 10: Partnership Systems, Caring Economics, and Human Rights
Why does “caring economics” outperform domination models on equity, sustainability, and peace?
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Riane Eisler, Center for Partnership Systems @rianeeisler-cps.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
How do Social Wealth Economic Indicators (SWEIs) fix GDP’s blind spots on caregiving and nature?
goodmenproject.com
Partnerships Studies 9: Partnership Science, Human Rights, and Caring Economics
What is the partnership–domination scale, and how can it improve scientific methodology?
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Riane Eisler, Center for Partnership Systems @rianeeisler-cps.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
How can policymakers operationalize the four cornerstones—family/childhood, gender, economics, and story/language—into measurable reforms that shift societies along the partnership–domination scale without provoking counterproductive backlash? goodmenproject.com/featured-con...
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Partnership Studies 8: Language, Parenting, Mythos
What evidence from neuroscience and archaeology most persuasively supports a transition to “power with” cultures, and how should educators translate that evidence into curricula that cultivate…
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Riane Eisler, Center for Partnership Systems @rianeeisler-cps.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
@brooklynmarie.bsky.social It was AWESOME. Were you there?
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Riane Eisler, Center for Partnership Systems @rianeeisler-cps.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Each episode features Dr. Riane Eisler in conversation as a partnership host, alongside many of the extraordinary patrons who have also helped bring the Peace Begins at Home Summit to life.
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PODCAST - ONE by ONE
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Riane Eisler, Center for Partnership Systems @rianeeisler-cps.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
South Africa’s Ela Gandhi, peace activist and former South African MP, and Refilwe Mokoena will join the dynamic group of speakers from around the world at the l Peace Begins at Home Summit 29 October 2025.
goodthingsguy.com
Ela Gandhi, Refilwe Mokoena to Bring SA Insights to Global Peace Summit
Ela Gandhi and Refilwe Mokoena will join global experts for the inaugural Peace Begins at Home Summit on 29 October 2025.
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Riane Eisler, Center for Partnership Systems @rianeeisler-cps.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
On 29 October 2025, the inaugural Peace Begins at Home Summit will bring together 26 speakers from 17 countries for a one-day global virtual gathering that asks a radical question: what if peace truly begins at home?
fox5sandiego.com
US Changemakers and Canadian Indigenous Women Leaders Join Global Peace Summit – Oct 29
The Peace Begins at Home Summit (Oct 29, 2025) will unite 26 speakers from 17 countries, including Dr. Riane Eisler, Ela Gandhi, and Dr. Richard Davidson. Dr. Riane Eisler, speaker at the Peace…
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Riane Eisler, Center for Partnership Systems @rianeeisler-cps.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
On October 29, voices from across the world will gather to connect the dots between what happens in our homes and what happens in our societies.
peacebeginsathomesummit.org
The Soul of the Peace Begins at Home Summit 2025 | Music, Voices & Global Connection — Peace Begins at Home Summit
Experience the soul of the Peace Begins at Home Summit: music, voices, and stories uniting a global movement for peace and partnership.
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Riane Eisler, Center for Partnership Systems @rianeeisler-cps.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
"New Mexico in 2020 began diverting surplus government income ... to a trust for early childhood education. The balance is nearing $10 billion, with about $500 million in investment earnings being funneled each year to early childhood education programs."
apnews.com
New Mexico is the first state to promise free child care for all families
New Mexico's governor plans to leverage a financial windfall from oil and gas production to bankroll free child care for families of all income levels. Gov.
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Riane Eisler, Center for Partnership Systems @rianeeisler-cps.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
"A significant part of the care economy involves people who leave paid employment, either temporarily or permanently, to meet a loved one’s needs. Unpaid care work is valued at an estimated $1 trillion, with about 65% of it carried out by women."
brookings.edu
Lessons from Germany’s family leave policies for the US care economy | Brookings
U.S. policymakers can learn from Germany’s flexible family leave system to ease financial and caregiving pressures.
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Riane Eisler, Center for Partnership Systems @rianeeisler-cps.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Look who's on the schedule as a Oneness Global Summit panelist! Presenting the 16th Annual Global Oneness Summit & Celebration, a FREE 3-Day Global Gathering and Celebration
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Global Oneness Summit Panelists | Humanity's Team
Join the 15th Annual Global Oneness Summit with 70 free panels. Engage with leaders & visionaries. Access free viewing links after each session.
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Riane Eisler, Center for Partnership Systems @rianeeisler-cps.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
"Eisler argues that large-scale war is not inevitable but a symptom of domination systems that reward violence and hierarchy... In an era of nuclear weapons and climate crisis, Eisler insists that moving toward partnership is essential for survival."
goodmenproject.com
Partnership Studies 7: Peace, Violence, and the Domination–Partnership Model
Why does Riane Eisler believe peace must begin in childhood and family life?
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Riane Eisler, Center for Partnership Systems @rianeeisler-cps.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
When we talk about peace, we often picture political negotiations, military ceasefires, and international treaties. But research shows that the first place we learn about power, care, and conflict is in the home.
peacebeginsathomesummit.org
The Hidden Link Between Childhood Violence & Global Conflict — Peace Begins at Home Summit
Discover how early experiences of violence shape global systems of power—and how shifting from domination to partnership can break the cycle.
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Riane Eisler, Center for Partnership Systems @rianeeisler-cps.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
We’re proud to welcome Chaïmae Ribani, an intersectional feminist and peace activist whose work challenges traditional security paradigms and reimagines them through the lens of equity and justice. The Peace Begins at Home Summit. www.peacebeginsathomesummit.org/register
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Riane Eisler, Center for Partnership Systems @rianeeisler-cps.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
"Eisler highlights how rigid gender roles sustain domination systems and contrasts destructive “power over” models with partnership’s nurturing power... warning that domination systems drive humanity toward an evolutionary dead end."
goodmenproject.com
Partnership Studies 6: Rethinking Power, Relationships, and Society
In what ways does Eisler’s partnership model offer solutions to global crises of inequality, violence, and environmental destruction?
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Riane Eisler, Center for Partnership Systems @rianeeisler-cps.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
OUR BIGGEST DEAL - Pathways to Planetary Prosperity A pioneering Tour de Force with Foreword by John Fullerton and a historic guest essay by Dr. Riane Eisler and others. Available for pre-order now!
yonearth.org
Our Biggest Deal – Y on Earth Community
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Riane Eisler, Center for Partnership Systems @rianeeisler-cps.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
How do patterns of domination in the home ripple into wider systems — fuelling authoritarianism, violence, and inequality — and how can we shift toward partnership to create cultures of care, democracy, and peace?
peacebeginsathomesummit.org
Peace Begins at Home Summit 2025: Global Online Event for Peace & Partnership — Peace Begins at Home Summit
Collage of Peace Begins at Home Summit speakers, representing diverse voices across ages 14 to 94 from 17 countries, united for global peace.
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Riane Eisler, Center for Partnership Systems @rianeeisler-cps.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
"Drawing on neuroscience and history, Eisler emphasizes that “peace begins at home,” advocating for a shift toward caring economics and integrated learning."
goodmenproject.com
Partnership Studies 5: Partnership Education, Human Nature, and Building Caring Societies
In what ways can caring economics and relational skills transform societies toward equity and peace?
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Riane Eisler, Center for Partnership Systems @rianeeisler-cps.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
"Economic growth, historically measured by gross domestic product (GDP), is central to this model and prioritized by governments at the expense of the global majority and care for people and the planet."
sdg.iisd.org
The Care Economy in Beyond GDP Paradigms
Growth, GDP, and the roots of the current polycrisis The multidimensional and interconnected crises we are in – including economic, climate, environmental degradation, biodiversity loss, debt, and…
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Riane Eisler, Center for Partnership Systems @rianeeisler-cps.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
What does it mean to create safe spaces for healing and change? 🌍 Register now at lnkd.in/gC-Jz-t4 — 2,000 people will witness this global first. Will you? The Peace Begins at Home Summit is Brought to you by @centerforpartnership @partnership_systems #PeaceSummit2025
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Riane Eisler, Center for Partnership Systems @rianeeisler-cps.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
26 changemakers. 17 countries. A global first. Register now at lnkd.in/gC-Jz-t4 — 2,000 people will witness this global first. Will you? hashtag#PeaceBeginsAtHome hashtag#SystemsChange hashtag#PartnershipModel hashtag#October29
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Riane Eisler, Center for Partnership Systems @rianeeisler-cps.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
From the latest edition of the Interdisciplinary Journal of Partnership Studies -- Shifting Power: Envisioning a Partnership-Based Future for Global Development pubs.lib.umn.edu/index.php/ij...
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Riane Eisler, Center for Partnership Systems @rianeeisler-cps.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
The environmental crises we face — deforestation, displacement, drought — are symptoms of deeper systems of extraction, domination, and disconnection.
peacebeginsathomesummit.org
Zainab Salbi on Climate, Women, and Peace from the Ground Up | Peace Begins at Home Summit — Peace Begins at Home Summit
Global leader Zainab Salbi shares how climate justice, women’s leadership, and peace are deeply connected—and why restoring our planet starts with restoring care.
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Riane Eisler, Center for Partnership Systems @rianeeisler-cps.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
We've got 26 excellent reasons to register for the 10/29 Peace Begins At Home Summit - take a look at these speakers!!
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Speakers | Meet the Voices Behind the Peace Begins at Home Summit 2025 — Peace Begins at Home Summit
Meet the visionary speakers of the Peace Begins at Home Summit—activists, healers, educators, and changemakers leading peacebuilding efforts across the globe.
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Riane Eisler, Center for Partnership Systems @rianeeisler-cps.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Together, we will explore how systems of harm begin at home and ripple outward — and how we can co-create new pathways rooted in care, equity, and partnership. This is a global conversation designed to generate real insight and real change.
peacebeginsathomesummit.org
About | The Story Behind the Peace Begins at Home Summit 2025 — Peace Begins at Home Summit
Learn how the Peace Begins at Home Summit began—rooted in Dr. Riane Eisler’s groundbreaking work on care and partnership. Meet the team and the global movement transforming peace from the inside out.
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Riane Eisler, Center for Partnership Systems @rianeeisler-cps.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
"The summit focuses not only on the widespread violence against children worldwide, but also on how it ripples outward—into social violence, into war, into global conflicts ... that may include crime, but more often it is war."
goodmenproject.com
Partnership Studies 4: Childhood, Partnership Systems, and Overcoming Domination Culture
What lessons from Nordic nations and hunter-gatherer societies support Eisler’s vision for partnership-oriented cultures rooted in caring economics?
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Riane Eisler, Center for Partnership Systems @rianeeisler-cps.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
"I have no quick fix for these problems, except to say we must move from domination to partnership, and stop equating difference with inferiority."
goodmenproject.com
Riane Eisler on Antisemitism, Zionism, and Israel’s Path to Partnership
What policy shifts could move Israel and its neighbors from garrison-state dynamics toward a practical, partnership-oriented future?
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Resurgence @resurgencetrust.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
26 changemakers. 17 countries. One bold conversation 🕊️ #SatishKumar is honored to be part of the #PeaceBeginsAtHomeSummit on 29 October 2025 Register now at www.peacebeginsathomesummit.org — 2,000 people will witness this live. Will you? @rianeeisler-cps.bsky.social #PeaceBeginsAtHome #Peace
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PEACE BEGINS AT HOME SUMMIT 
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26 Changemakers. 17 Countries. 1 Global Conversation. 

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