Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 Page 11 Page 12 Page 13 Page 14 Page 15 Page 16 Page 17 Page 18 Page 19 Page 20 Page 21 Page 22 Page 23 Page 24 Page 25 Page 26 Page 27 Page 28 Page 29 Page 30 Page 31 Page 32Decreased War and Terrorism A critical experimental test of the Brain-Based Approach to Peace was conducted during the peak of the Lebanon war. A day-by-day study of a two-month assembly in Israel in 1983 showed that, on days when the number of participants (“TM Group Size,”right) was high, war deaths in neighboring Lebanon dropped by 76% (p < 10–7). In addition, crime, traffic accidents, fires, and other indicators of social stress in Israel (combined into a Composite Index) all correlated strongly with changes in the size of the peace-creating group. Other possible causes (weekends, holidays, weather, etc.) were statistically controlled for.8 TM Group Size Composite Index of Quality of Life Overall Composite Index Time (Days) TM Group Size 3– 2– 1– 0– –1– –2– –3– –234 –196 –158 –120 –82 Decreased war deaths in Lebanon Changes in the quality of life in Israel correlate with changes in the numbers of people practicing the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi program (Orme-Johnson et al., 1988)8 16 global peace initiative