Voices for Peace: From Conflict to Transformation is a webinar series that explores emerging perspectives on peacebuilding, with a focus on systems thinking, youth leadership, and the concept of Planetary Peace. Drawing from both global frameworks and grassroots experiences, the series aims to deepen understanding of peace as a multidimensional and interconnected process. Guided by the principles of the Youth, Peace and Security (YPS) agenda, the series creates space for dialogue between young leaders, scholars, and practitioners working to build inclusive, just, and sustainable peace in their communities and beyond. Each session will address different dimensions of peacebuilding, offering participants the opportunity to engage with expert insights and share reflections across sectors and generations. Sign up below for the next webinars, or check out previous ones!
Coming up
Every society holds the power to be more than a collection of individuals — it can be a community rooted in safety, trust and shared healing. Through collective reflection and dialogue, the Desmond and Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation shows how we can move from breakdown to breakthrough, nurturing spaces where justice and peace can take root. In our next Webinar Series Voices for Peace: “Remembering our way forward: A conversation on collective healing,” we’ll explore an emergent framework for societal healing — one that invites us to tend to the “soil” of safety and flow with the “river” of transformation. Together, we’ll explore:
How collective healing can rebuild trust in fractured communities
The transformative power of dialogue and shared humanity
Previous webinars
Every school has the power to be more than a place of learning — it can be a home for dignity, justice, and peace.
Through human rights education, Amnesty International shows how young people and educators can foster youth leadership and build more just, peaceful societies.
In this episode of Voices for Peace: The Human Rights Friendly Schools Experience, Amnesty International will share a model of how education can embed human rights at the core of school life.
Colonial legacies & climate change: how Indigenous and Global South voices are pushing back
For Greenpeace Africa, decolonising peacebuilding means challenging unfair systems that still affect African countries today.
In this episode, alongside experts, we explore the importance of uplifting Indigenous knowledge, including voices that are often ignored, and pushing for fair and local solutions. This approach not only helps fight environmental destruction but also supports the wider goals of justice, sovereignty and climate action.
Voices for Peace: Organising in Polarised Communities How can we organise for justice and peace when disinformation divides us and hate speech floods our feeds? In this session, we explore:
- What polarisation means and how it affects organising
- The drivers and actors behind depolarisation
- Practical tools to rebuild trust and collective strength
Join Maryam (Egypt) and Matteo (Belgium) from Roots as they share approaches to depolarisation, peaceful online engagement and collective resilience.
From Conflict to Transformation Join Paul Shrivastava, co-president of The Club of Rome and professor at Penn State University, and Cathy-Mae Karelse, PhD, author and founder of Clear Mind International, in the first session of our series. We explore:
- Overview of the concept of Planetary Peace
- Systems thinking and peace
- Environmental peace
- Planetary Peace and the YPS Agenda
This is an event organised by The 50 Percent, an initiative of The Club of Rome. The 50 Percent empowers young changemakers to tackle our world’s most complex challenges through systems thinking and compelling storytelling, with the aim of systems change. We equip youth with practical tools to understand how interconnected elements shape our world, enabling them to identify powerful leverage points for change.
