Our Framework for Action
A Space for Collaboration
We seek to amplify local voices and agency to inspire movement towards peace. We provide a space for grassroot collaboration and bring together individuals, experts, academics, responsive organizations and institutions who share our passion and vision of a peaceful and prosperous world to engage in dialogue, reflection and action in a holistic and integrated manner in order to cultivate a deeper understanding of the complex and multifaceted challenges and obstacles that impact our global community. In an ever-changing world, individuals and communities need strength in resilience, perseverance, self-regulation, collaboration, conflict resolution in order to forge opportunity from turbulence and uncertainty and drive change towards peace and prosperity.
A Framework for Unity
Building a global community that is working collaboratively towards sustaining peaceful societies is at the core of our programme. Our aim is to broaden public engagement and individual agency so that every member of society has the opportunity to proactively engage and collaborate with a range of partners and actors in order to promote peacebuilding, humanitarian and development initiatives within their communities.
Participants will have the opportunity to analyse the needs and opportunities that exist within their communities and together design, carry out, and evaluate projects and programmes for peaceful coexistence based on practical applications seeded in local contexts. This collaborative process of building unity through participatory grassroot initiatives will help address root causes of conflict in their local context, reframe peacebuilding processes and transform structures, norms and customs in local communities so that coherent strategies can be delivered to lay the foundation for resilient and peaceful societies, through local, regional and global consultation and action.
A Culture of Peace
A culture of peace is anchored in the recognition and acceptance of the oneness of humanity. The concept of a culture of peace emerged from the International Congress on Peace in the Minds of Men, organized by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in Côte d'Ivoire in July 1989. In today’s interconnected world, culture's power to transform societies is clear.
Promoting a culture of peace requires us to systematically explore and expand our understanding of peace, to identify factors that build peaceful and resilient societies and mainstream the implications of the oneness of humanity in policies, structures, and institutions. These include incorporating a common set of values universally upheld and universally implemented in order to safeguard people and preserve the balance of nature on the planet. When Individuals and communities transform their thoughts and actions towards peace, they become the engine that drives the movement for peace and prosperity towards its unfoldment locally, regionally and globally.
A Knowledge Hub
Our goal is to build a learning ecosystem that provides enriching tools and resources for individuals to use in their learning and engagements towards creating and sustaining peaceful communities. With our Knowledge Hub, we seek to highlight emerging issues and local priorities that will form the basis for delivering concrete solutions and drive the global vision of peace into tangible action.