The peace process, the road map to peace, does not come from the government. It comes from your own heart and from your beloved, and then the two of you can form a multitude. If there are enough of you who know how to handle fear and anger, and how to calm yourselves, then you can organize a people's peace conference. You don't need your government to do it. Your government has tried very hard in the past and has not succeeded. They don't really know the peace process or the road map to peace. They talk about it in terms of politics but they don't know how to think in terms of human beings.
— Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Begins Here