The charge of the Sandy Spring Friends School all-school Peace Committee is to help members of the SSFS community follow leadings toward peace in their personal lives, in the community, and/or in society at large. Its membership may include faculty and staff from each division, Middle and Upper School students, and parents. We exist to help nurture the faith that, as the American Friends Service Committee states, "conflicts can be resolved nonviolently, that enmity can be transformed into friendship, strife into cooperation, poverty into well-being, and injustice into dignity and participation." The committee will act as a clearinghouse for peace information and curricula, a support group for peace (for example, providing access to counseling for young men in the community contemplating conscientious objector status), and a work group to help organize and run events that promote awareness of peace and nonviolence.