The Waging Peace Project

Activate Justice + Instigate Joy

The Waging Peace Project™ is dedicated to multiracial and interfaith solutions to violence and injustice by building peace through Justice, Joy and Storytelling.

 
 

Join the revolution as we learn how to activate justice and instigate joy by committing acts of courage right where we live. 

We are courage activators, shouting for you to pull up your seat at the peacemaking table because You are exactly what our world needs!

Are you ready to shake things up?

Welcome to the edgier side of peacemaking!

 

Waging Peace: One Soldier’s Story of Putting Love First

Diana Oestreich, a combat medic in the Army National Guard, enlisted like both her parents before her. But when she was commanded to run over an Iraqi child to keep her convoy rolling and keep her battle buddies safe, she was confronted with a choice she never thought she'd have to make.

Torn between God's call to love her enemy and her country's command to be willing to kill, Diana chose to wage peace in a place of war. For the remainder of her tour of duty, Diana sought to be a peacemaker--leading to an unlikely and beautiful friendship with an Iraqi family.

A beautiful and gut-wrenching memoir, Waging Peace exposes the false divide between loving our country and living out our higher call to love our enemies--whether we perceive our enemy as the neighbor with an opposing political viewpoint, the clerk wearing a head-covering, or the refugee from a war-torn country. By showing that us-versus-them is a false choice, this book will inspire each of us to choose love over fear.

 
 

Activating Justice

Putting Love on Display in Public

We are courage-activators, shouting for you to pull up your seat at the peacemaking table because You are exactly what our world needs!

We can’t stay quiet—because Justice is what Love looks like in public*.

*Dr. Cornel West

 
 

Instigating Joy

Building Communities of Belonging

How do we bake joy into our justice work and justice into our Joy?

Disrupting the cycles of inequality is how we fight for our collective joy. Our joy is complete when we all have what we need to thrive. We work for those on the margins to be free from violence and full of Justice.

 
 

Storytelling

We are changing the Narrative by changing the Narrator.

Uncovering your own story is how we discover our superpower for waging peace. Through relationships, dialogue and workshops we are changing the narrative around building peace and disarming violence.

Harness your superpower by:

  • Telling your story

  • Connecting to your purpose

  • Uncovering your power to wage peace

 

WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING:

  • Steve Plank, Syracuse, NY

    Thank you SO much for the powerful event that you hosted today with Diana Oestreich! It was so informative and incredibly moving! Again, my deepest thanks!

  • Lake Superior College Faculty

    Listening to Diana speak to our staff and faculty about togetherness and community helped reset some of my own thought processes and respond to differences of opinions more mindfully.

  • Bryson Davis, Akron Leadership Foundation

    We hosted Diana and The Waging Peace Project on MLK Jr Day and it was such a beautiful way to celebrate and honor the legacy of reconciliation and peacemaking that Martin Luther King Jr has left in this country. Her message of active nonviolence inspired and challenged our community in indelible fashion. Thank you, Diana, for the embodied, humble, and prophetic message you boldly shared with us!

  • Pastor Micheal Rudzena, Good Shepard Church NYC

    Your words were very timely and made a big impact on so many of us.

  • Voula, Keene Creek Book Club

    Thank you for giving us your time and sharing important perspectives. You displayed respect for so many tough issues, situations and also for people in different places of understanding that brought your message of peace home.

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