b'22 GLOBAL UNION OF SCIENTISTS FOR PEACE SCIENTIFIC SOLUTIONS TO VIOLENCE AND GLOBAL CONFLICT 23Replications of the Lebanon study Decreased global terrorism 1.50 2 Reduced fatalities and Fatalities and Injuries (Natural Log Scale) injuries correlate with 1.25 higher numbers of This meta-analysis11.00 people practicing theshows increases in a Non-experimental period Israel (t = 5.27) Utopia, USA (t = 3.78) Lebanon (t = 3.38) Yugoslavia (t = 5.27) Fairfield, USA (t = 2.46) Netherlands (t = 2.98) Washington, DC, USA (t = 2.75)Transcendental Meditation 0.75 Peace-War Index during0 Baseline weeks Weeks of Peace- and TM-Sidhi program0.50 seven assemblies ofCreating Assembly experts practicing the 0.25 TranscendentalIn addition, the global influence on terrorism of three large coherence-creating assemblies was Meditation andstudied retrospectively through an analysis of data compiled by the Rand Corporation. The data 0.00 TM-Sidhi programrevealed a 72% reduction in worldwide terrorism during the three assemblies taken together, as -0.25 compared to all other weeks during a two-year period. Each assembly had approached or exceeded the participation threshold (8,000) predicted to create a global influence of peace. The study ruled out These results were subsequently replicated in seven consecutive experiments over a two-year periodthe possibility that this reduction in terrorism was due to cycles, trends, or drifts in the measures used, during the peak of the Lebanon war. The results of these interventions included:or to seasonal changes (Journal of Offender Rehabilitation 36 (14): 283302, 2003) [17].10 war-related fatalities decreased by 71% (p < 10 )war-related injuries fell by 68% (p< 10 6 )the level of conflict dropped by 48% (p< 10 8 )cooperation among antagonists increased by 66% (p < 10 6 )The likelihood that these combined results were due to chance is less than one part in 10 19 , making this effect of reducing societal stress and conflict the most rigorously established phenomenon in the history of the social sciences (Journal of Social Behavior and Personality 17(1): 285338, 2005) [3].'