b'32 GLOBAL UNION OF SCIENTISTS FOR PEACE SCIENTIFIC SOLUTIONS TO VIOLENCE AND GLOBAL CONFLICT 33NATIONAL IMPLEMENTATIONThus began the sizable task of teaching these programs in the different branches of theMILITARY military, including Ground, Naval, and Air Forces. During the year 1993, about 15,000 Establishing a peace-keeping wing in the military people were instructed. Immediately we saw an improvement in many problems that were prevalent among our forces: including reduced stress-related health and behavioral Another successful implementation strategy for a national peace-creating group is within a nationsproblems, hypertension, and insomnia. We saw reduced use of medicines, reduced hos-security forces. These dedicated and disciplined professionals are charged to protect the nation againstpital visits, and improved relationships and morale among the troops, who carried out external and internal threats. There is very little added cost to train and equip these security forces,their orders more efficiently. The general tension in the atmosphere was greatly reduced.or a special wing within the military, with an effective tool to defuse societal stressbefore it erupts into social conflict. With the Brain-Based Approach to Peace, it is not only possible but relatively easyOnce thousands of people were taught in Maputo, we observed a 20% decrease in vio-to defuse acute societal stress, and thereby neutralize the hostility within the adversaryi.e., therebylent crimewhich was anomalous because, at the end of the war, an increase in crime eliminate the enmity within the enemyand thus prevent the outbreak of war. had been expected. The same thing happened in Quelimane (a decrease of 20%) and also in the province of Manica. The population as a whole became more optimistic, and Implementation in Mozambique we saw renewed agricultural and economic activity throughout the country. During that year (1993), we witnessed a very unexpected 19% growth in the economy.The power of this approach was demonstrated historically when former President Joaquim Alberto Chissano of Mozambique established a Prevention Wing within hisWe were most amazed to see that peace was being maintained after so much time of military in 1993. After 20 years of civil war that had ravaged his country, creatingconflict in the country. There was harmony among those who had previously fought. massive dislocation and poverty, President Chissano introduced the TM and advancedWhat appeared almost impossible was now a reality: brothers who had been divided by TM-Sidhi program first to his fellow leaders and commanders, and then throughout hisoutside forces and had fought against each other, once again understood each other.national forces, integrating daily group practice into their military routine.PresidentJoaquimAlmost immediately, the intense atmosphere of enmity that had long gripped the coun- These surprising benefits culminated with the realization of free and democratic elec-Chissano try subsided. Crime rates fell significantly, accompanied by strongly positive social andtions throughout the country, with no significant incidents of violence. Our conclusion is economic trends that culminated in free and open democratic electionsand a lasting state of peace. that the implementation of the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi program [Brain-Based Approach to Peace] within the Armed Forces of Mozambique was well worth the President Chissano is heralded today as a preeminent peacemaker, credited with transforming the war- effort, and that results were in line with what was predicted. Lt. General Tobias Daitorn country of Mozambique into one of the most successful African democracies [29].President Chissano and his former Commander of the Army, Lt. General Tobias Dai, presented these and related results at a series of public conferences and defense-related summits in 19841985. It is inspiring and instructive to quote from those conference proceedings [30]: Implementation in EcuadorThis approach was similarly applied in Ecuador in a field test organized by then Vice-In our genuine search for possible solutions to the severe problems facing the country,Minister of Defense Lt. Gen. Jos Mart Villamil de la Cadena. In 1995, Gen. Villamil individuals at high levels in our countrys hierarchy began the practice of the Transcen- launched The Coherence Project,in which 3,000 Ecuadorian soldiers learned the dental Meditation program. After serious and critical study of this and related technolo- Brain-Based Approach to Peace and practiced it togetherand thereby brought an end gies that were being offered, the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the Armed Forces decided toto the long-standing, escalating border conflict between Ecuador and Peru.implement these programs within the Armed Forces. Gen. Villamil describes this experience in his article Project Coherence, published by Lt. Gen. J.M. Villamil the defense think tank India Defence Consultants [31]:'