We have formed as Friends of Buddhist Peace fellowship and represent various Buddhist groups in the greater Cincinnati area.

Our practice of contemplation and social action is guided by our intentions to:

•Recognize the interdependence of all beings
•Meet suffering directly and with compassion
•Appreciate the importance of not clinging to views and outcomes
• Work with Buddhists from all traditions
• Connect individual and social transformation
• Practice nonviolence
• Use participatory decision-making techniques
• Protect and extend human rights
• Support gender and racial equality, and challenge all forms of unjust discrimination
• Work for economic justice and the end of poverty
• Work for a sustainable environment