The elements of the Common Society Movement were conceived in Sri Lanka, the day of Sarvodaya's monumental Peace Meditation, which involved 600,000 people from all walks of life. What would be a U.S. equivalent to that massive outpouring of Sri Lankans for peace? How could we re-direct America, as the Sri Lankans have re-directed their society, toward peace?

Of course, we cannot ask 3,000,000 people to show up in Washington, DC. We lack the infrastructure to accomplish such a task: Sarvodaya has been working on its infrastructure for almost 45 years. And, more importantly, that's not what we need right now!

What we need now is vision - a vision that we create together, for a world we want to live in. We need a PROCESS we all can have faith in, because we all participate in it. We need consensus.