b'26 GLOBAL UNION OF SCIENTISTS FOR PEACE SCIENTIFIC SOLUTIONS TO VIOLENCE AND GLOBAL CONFLICT 27IMPLEMENTINGLOCAL IMPLEMENTATIONEDUCATIONTHE BRAIN-BASEDReducing stress, optimizing brain functioning, and boosting educational outcomesAPPROACH TO PEACE During the past five years, hundreds of public and private schools and colleges throughout the US, Latin America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East have incorporated daily group practice of the stress-reducing, peace-promoting technique of Transcendental Meditation.The Global Union of Scientists for Peace is dynamicallyThe driving motivation for educational policymakers and school administrators to implement and engaged in implementing the Brain-Based Approach to Peacemaintain this program has been the resulting marked improvements in academic performance, grade throughout the worldon the local, national, and global scales.point average, school attendance, and graduation rates, and the significant reductions in disciplinary problems and school violence. Since the primary purpose of education is to develop a students full A few highlights of this progress are presented here. mental potential, the incorporation of Transcendental Meditation into the daily academic schedule is natural and logical, and has met with striking success.There has been extensive media coverage of these highly successful in-school projects and their positive academic outcomes. (To watch a recent NBC News report on a San Francisco TM/Quiet-Time program, visit www.GUSP.org/video.)In addition to boosting educational performance, introducing TM into schools and school communi-ties provides an easy way to create and sustain peace-promoting groups at little or no cost. Research has correlated these school and community meditating groups with significant reductions in crime and violence and improved quality of life in their surrounding neighborhoods, and also at the city level [1820]. (To watch a brief CBS News report on the crime-lowering effect of a Washington, DC, in-school project, visit www.GUSP.org/video.)This educational approach of introducing Transcendental Meditation into schools remains a primary focus of our GUSP Directors, many of whom are leading educators. (To watch video highlights of these educational projects around the world, visit www.GUSP.org/video.)Students meditating at a San Francisco public school. The Brain-Based Approach to Peace is being systematically implemented throughout the San Francisco Unified School District with support from the David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace, under the name TM/Quiet-Time program.'