b'24 GLOBAL UNION OF SCIENTISTS FOR PEACE SCIENTIFIC SOLUTIONS TO VIOLENCE AND GLOBAL CONFLICT 25DECREASED CRIME Decreased crime in Washington, D.C. AND SOCIAL STRESS DemonstrationDecreased crime in Period200 Time Series Prediction Without Washington, D.C., correlates Homicides, Rapes, and Assaults per WeekCoherence-Creating Group190with increasing numbers 180170 of people practicing the 160 Transcendental Meditation 150 and TM-Sidhi program in 140 Actual 130 Crime the U.S. national capital 120 p = .00008 (Hagelin et al., 1999) 7110100 1/2/931/16/931/30/932/13/932/27/933/13/933/27/934/10/934/24/935/8/935/22/936/5/936/19/937/3/937/17/937/31/938/14/93 months of the year, soon after the start of the study, violent crime (measured by FBI Uniform Crime Statistics) began decreasing and continued to drop until the end of the experiment (maximum decrease 23.3%), after which it began to rise again. The likelihood that this result could be attributed to chance variation in crime levels was less than two parts per billion (p < .000000002). The drop in crime could not be attributed to other possible causes, including temperature, precipitation, weekends, and police and community anticrime activities (Social Indicators Research 47: 153201, 1999) [1].These are just a few of the more than 50 scientific demonstrations and 23 published studies on this A National Demonstration Project conducted in Washington, D.C., from June 7 to July 30, 1993, tested Brain-Based Approach and its impact on society. These studies are backed by more than 350 other the efficacy of the Brain-Based Approach to Peace for reducing crime and social stress and improving published, peer-reviewed studies conducted at over 200 independent universities and research institutes the effectiveness of government.in 30 countries on the individual and societal benefits of these powerful technologies of consciousness. In this carefully controlled experiment, the coherence-creating group increased from 800 to 4,000This extensive body of scientific research makes the Brain-Based Approach to Peace one of the most over the two-month period. Although violent crime had been steadily increasing during the first fivethoroughly tested and rigorously established technologies of preventive defense in the world today.'