Bringing together peace practitioners, journalists, artists, musicians, community leaders, community members, grandmothers and grandfathers to share, celebrate, and amplify community-led peace processes to inspire a realization that peace is possible.
We are seeing an increasingly polarized world around us. Escalating conflicts, unaddressed historical trauma, an eroding sense of identity and belonging in an ever-changing global landscape and eroding mental wellbeing and resilience post-pandemic has left communities wrestling with conflict at much deeper levels. As positive peacebuilders, we believe the world needs conflict transformation approaches that can self-empower people, that can remind people of their resilience, of the tools they already have, of practices and rituals that perhaps lie in their ancestral backgrounds, approaches they can leverage, enhance, and implement for themselves and their communities. As peacebuilders, we want to foster a sense of possibility. The Peace Conference 2025 aims to do just that.