Peter Bruce DuMont — A Biographical Sketch
Peter Bruce DuMont, “Rock of the Mountain,” is committed to a society that “Communicates, Cooperates, and Celebrates,” with good will and integrity toward greater peace and happiness for all.
As an eighteen year-old at the University of California, Berkeley during the Vietnam War; DuMont read from Tolstoy, Gandhi, and King; and applied for conscientious objector status: a soul-searching process. Soon afterwards he began studying with the late, great Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, founder of the Transcendental Mediation (T.M.) program and spiritual inspiration to the Beatles and many others. (This effortless technique provides natural deep relaxation, stress reduction, and mental development for any practitioner.) DuMont qualified to become a young teacher of T.M. and began teaching and promoting the program in the San Francisco Bay Area throughout the 1970s. He also administered courses in the T.M.-related theory: “The Science of Creative Intelligence.” After advanced teacher-training in Switzerland, DuMont visited France, England, Holland, and Germany; and taught TM briefly in both Florence, Italy, and Abadan, Iran.
In 1985, DuMont initiated a new nonprofit organization: “Stars for Peace International.” The group’s aim was to promote good will and ethical peace values; and to harness promotional celebrity “star power” in media, sports, entertainment and the arts. DuMont authored a special statement of philosophy for peace and went on to write a series of experimental, citizen peace proclamations, pledges, and declarations that presaged (and likely aided) the sudden end of the Cold War. DuMont's writings continue to point toward a better life for all. They serve as instruments of education and commitment to common civic peace values, designed to inspire individuals, institutions, communities, nations, and future generations.
In 1986, DuMont invented a new name for the organization: “STAR ALLIANCE.” He coined this term as a deliberate pun on satellite “stars,” celebrity “stars,” and celestial stars as metaphors for ethical peace ideals — the timeless heights of pure principle. The name was also chosen to encourage strategic cooperation with established organizations and businesses; to make major promotions easier and more efficient. DuMont invented the “STAR OF PEACE” Award and began to promote the idea that “Everyone Can be a Star” by living according to these common civic peace principles. From 1987 to 1990, DuMont also co-produced and co-hosted the weekly “STAR ALLIANCE SHOW” on San Francisco Bay Area community access television stations.
In 1992, he returned to U.C. Berkeley, to complete a BA in “Peace and Conflict Studies.” Since then, in addition to further broadcast efforts, DuMont has continued his quest to express civic peace ethics and ideals in an intellectually defensible way. He is attempting to establish the human hand as a “universal peace metaphor” — a teaching method for global educational promotion in conjunction with “The Vocabulary of Peace”™ and “The Arc of Rainbow Stars”™ STAR ALLIANCE foundation logo. Most recently, DuMont has authored a "nesting set" of documents entitled “A Global Pledge of Allegiance to Principles for Peace.” And STAR ALLIANCE also helps identify and address a major social issue of our times: “economic discrimination before the law.”
During the first decade of the Twenty-first Century, Peter DuMont has conceived of "The Ring of All Nations"™ Project. As envisioned, STAR ALLIANCE “Ring” monuments will empower people’s assembly, performance, and citizens’ media production; helping connect global populations for democratic discussion, celebration, and citizen solidarity for “Our Highest Common Ideals.” The project will begin with a remarkable “Floating Amphitheater”™ — The STAR ALLIANCE "AquaTheater"™ that is being envisioned and designed for San Francisco Bay with key volunteer assistance from architect/teacher William Fisher of Santa Cruz.
As called upon and empowered, DuMont will participate in advising and inspiring governments, businesses, and citizens everywhere toward a fuller practice of good will, integrity, and all the proposed “Quality-of-Life Peace Ethics for All” in theory and practice.
Contact: PeterDuMont@STARALLIANCE.org. Tel: 510-540-8887. (Rev. 2011-1-20)