TEACH PEACE — FULL PARTICIPATION STRUCTURE

Every category of engagement, defined once, for review

Teach Peace has no membership. There is no roster, no dues, no list of names anywhere that identifies who has joined anything — because nothing exists to join. This is not only a matter of principle. It is a practical safeguard: a membership list is a target. Any government or official hostile to this work could otherwise demand it, subpoena it, or use it to pressure individuals directly. Categories below describe levels of institutional and organizational engagement, publicly acknowledged where the institution itself chooses to be public about it — never a private list of individual participants.

University Categories

1. Hub University

The single institution serving as the founder's physical and academic home. He works there in person, full time, teaching directly across departments. The hub leads the framework's formal academic development — curriculum, credit structure, degree pathway — in partnership with the founder, governed entirely by its own institutional process.

2. Associate Universities

Institutions engaged at a level near-equal to the hub in substance, though not in physical presence. An associate university has formally adopted Teach Peace into its own curriculum or research activity, participates regularly in the framework's ongoing development through standing remote sessions with the founder and the hub's faculty, and is recognized publicly as a full academic partner. The distinction from the hub is physical: the founder is not based there, but the depth of engagement is comparable.

3. Engaged Universities

Institutions with a real, adopted presence — an elective, a guest-lecture series, a single department's active use of the material — but without the sustained, campus-wide integration of an associate. Engaged universities receive the same daily updates and standing remote access as associates, and may move to associate status as their own involvement deepens.

4. Supporter Universities

Institutions that track the framework's progress and provide financial or reputational support without current classroom adoption. This tier requires no faculty time or curriculum commitment. A supporter may become engaged, and later an associate, entirely at its own pace.

Peace Organization Categories

University-Affiliated Peace Groups

Officially recognized student or faculty peace organizations operating within a university already engaged with Teach Peace at any level. These groups are natural early adopters and are treated as part of that university's own engagement.

Independent Peace and Advocacy Organizations

Organizations not affiliated with any university, and not built around Teach Peace's own broad, general-purpose question. This includes both established general peace organizations and single-issue advocacy groups — environmental, humanitarian, or otherwise — whose work is narrower than the peace metric itself. These organizations may endorse or align with Teach Peace publicly at any time, at no cost and with no obligation, under the same convergence principle already established: agreement costs nothing, and withdrawal costs nothing. They are held in a distinct category from university partners because their focus is inherently narrower than the general-purpose question Teach Peace applies to everything.

International Category

Universities, organizations, and individuals outside the United States engage on the same terms as domestic participants — hub, associate, engaged, or supporter — with the same principle applied globally: one coordinating hub, broad international collaboration around it, no exclusivity beyond being first.

United Nations Liaison

A single, designated point of contact represents Teach Peace in any engagement with the United Nations or its member missions — not a membership relationship, but a formal channel through which the framework can be referenced, discussed, or applied at that level, consistent with the same no-organization, no-verdict principle that governs every other application of the method.

The Founder’s Role — Global Advocate for Peace

Dr. John WorldPeace JD holds the title Global Advocate for Peace — not a corporate or organizational office, because no organization exists to hold one in. There is no board that appointed this title and no board that could remove it. It is earned by the work already done and documented: five decades building the framework, and the singular, current point of contact for engagement with heads of state, universities, and institutions at the highest level.

This is a title of function, not permanent personal ownership. It describes whoever currently serves as Teach Peace's singular point of contact for that level of engagement — today, that is the founder. It carries no authority over any participating institution or individual. No hub, associate, engaged, or supporter university answers to him; each governs its own use of the framework entirely. Teach Peace is organized work, carried out with real structure and real standards — not a corporation, and not a hierarchy of titles beneath this one.

Given the volume of work required to build and coordinate this structure during its early phase, in-person travel is necessarily limited. Engagement beyond the hub university is conducted primarily through standing remote sessions, not physical visits, so that growth does not depend on days spent traveling.