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Just Peace Festival 2025

Date
Thursday 12 June 2025 - Thursday 26 June 2025
Address
Various locations
the Hague

We are excited to announce the Just Peace Festival, a vibrant platform for dialogue, collaboration, and action on the pressing global challenges of peace and justice! The festival is the culmination of The Hague’s Road to Summit programme and is a collaborative initiative founded by The Hague Humanity Hub, Leiden University and the Municipality of The Hague.

Just Peace Open Day 2024

What is the Just Peace Festival?

In today’s interconnected world, where armed conflict, inequality, environmental threats, and social divides threaten democracy and global stability, the Just Peace Festival brings together citizens, experts, artists, policymakers, and activists. 

Through interactive sessions, workshops, exhibitions, and performances, the festival celebrates efforts toward peace, fosters meaningful conversations, and inspires collective action.

The Just Peace Festival touches upon six themes: 

  1. Peace and Justice
  2. Democracy
  3. Inclusion, (In)Equality and Diversity
  4. Climate and Resilience
  5. International Rule of Law
  6. (Cyber)Resilience

Just Peace Dialogues

The Just Peace Dialogues are a set of meetings for public deliberation of key aspects of building peace in today’s world. Leiden University with the support of its partners has organised nine sessions on key topics: 

  • Imagining Peace 
  • Peace in Europe
  • Peace in Sudan
  • Peace in Israel-Palestine
  • Democracy and Peace
  • Cybersecurity and Peace
  • Rule of Law and Peace
  • Equality and Peace
  • Climate and Peace

More about the the Just Peace Festival

This is the first edition of the Just Peace Festival, stay up to date with the latest news and learn about how you can contribute to this initiative.

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