Your gifts—whether art, music, poetry, theater, gardening, crafting, or any number of innovative endeavors—can help enact genuine change. In fact, we think they're essential to the work of seeking justice and pursuing holistic peace in our communities. Your gifts can be used to help organize your neighbors, turn our protests into a party, and help make our path to liberation together beautiful. Join Liz Digitale Anderson for a 90-minute workshop to get inspired to consider new ways to form communities of peace.

Join us as Ramy Taleb and Roula Geryes Taleb share stories and reflect upon their work with Al Shabiba Risala, an organization whose mission is to enable the emerging generation in Lebanon to flourish so that they are free and equipped to pursue peace within themselves and their communities. We will also discuss how all of us can begin to live differently as a restored community and be the "firstfruits" of healthy, inclusive relationships across difference … even when life feels extremely difficult.

Join our conversation with Troy Jackson of Undivided and Andrew Hanauer of One America about the work their organizations are doing to build relationships and seek justice across the widening gaps in U.S. society. Our conversation will explore how their approaches overlap, where they diverge, and what each can learn from the other, with both bringing their own wisdom to answer the question, “What kind of Christian public witness can both tell the truth about injustice and create enough common ground for people to imagine and build a different future together?”

Join Peter Digitale Anderson and Steven Schallert for a dialogue on social movements, civil resistance, and nonviolent action. They will reflect on both the tensions present in such spaces, and the hope they have as they see people strive to change narratives and create a better story for themselves and their communities.

Join us for a conversation with Mzwandile Nkutha, Nkosivumile Gola, and Buyisiwe Putu from Iziko Lamaqabane, an organization working in relational solidarity with urban peace and justice practitioners throughout Africa. The three will discuss the meaning of peace and justice in a context of histories shaped and formed by coloniality. 

Christian approaches to peace and reconciliation in Palestine have often resulted in limited success, or even outright failure. One reason for this is that even peace-oriented Christian narratives and frameworks can themselves become shaped by the assumptions of empire. Join us for this conversation with Musalaha’s executive director Daniel Munayer to talk about the concept of co-resistance.

Join us for this workshop to focus on our relationship to land, water, our non-human community, and our neighbors who bear the brunt of ecological destruction. Together we will discuss what the Scriptures say about our relationship to the earth, how Scripture applies to the crises of our time, and how we might put our Christian faith into action. We will share hopeful stories of changemakers who bring faith to bear in healing the wounds of creation.

Join us for this conversation with Michael Gulker, president of The Colossian Forum, an organization that invites Christians to look past difference to find opportunities for deeper connection. Michael will explore what it means to cultivate the courage and curiosity necessary to establish connections across conflict, as well as how churches might move toward genuine reconciliation - and model this kind of reconciliation to the world.

A refusal of violence requires us to change the narratives we tell ourselves: our assumptions about God, our internalized narratives, and our ways of relating to ourselves and others. To move toward Jesus’ way of peace, justice, and liberation, we must undertake the difficult work of addressing the stories we carry about our own worth, how God sees us, and what Christianity expects from us. Join our conversation with Amber Oda and licensed trauma therapist Mirela Popaja-Hadžić on healing as a form of peacebuilding.

The Christian story has too often been narrated in terms of empire, domination, exclusion, and violence. This opening panel - held on the International Day of Peace - will kick off our 12 Days of Peace event with a substantive conversation about how the dominant narratives we’ve inherited have been shaped by empire and systems of power. And most importantly, we'll discuss what it might look like to reclaim the Christian narrative around the story and way of Jesus.

How does a faith centered on enemy-love and humility so easily become weaponized to secure political control, marginalize others, and justify structural violence? Drawing on theology, history, and peacebuilding practice, this session explores how Christianity’s historic proximity to centers of power—from colonial legacies to modern nationalistic movements—subverts our collective imagination. Rather than focusing on isolated doctrines, we will draw on social sciences and examine how patterns across core concepts like peace, mission, and salvation are radically redefined when the church moves from the margins to the center. Together, we will reflect on the systemic blindspots that shape our institutions and discuss how to cultivate robust, self-critical forms of Christian formation aligned with the servant way of Jesus.

Phil Gazley, Program Director of Peace Catalyst Norwich, will highlight UN annual awareness day, sharing experiences from his own work and discussing the roots of religious persecution.

Many of us come to peacebuilding because we care deeply about reconciliation, justice, and healing. Yet religious systems have often suppressed conflict while under-preparing people for it, teaching us that harmony means silence, disagreement is disloyalty, and conflict is a failure of faith. In this session, we will examine the internal groundwork that makes authentic peacebuilding possible.

Drawing on the prophetic witness of the Kairos Document from apartheid South Africa, Thandi Gamedze explores how theology can function to uphold systems of domination and injustice—both overtly and subtly. In this session, she will introduce an analytical framework developed from the Kairos critique of “state” and “church” theology, and demonstrate how it can help make visible contemporary forms of status quo theology, including Christian Zionism and other theological frameworks that sanctify oppression while resisting transformative justice.

Ramy Taleb, founder of Al Shabiba Risala, will share about his journey into peacebuilding in Lebanon—shaped by both transformation and tension as he navigated inherited Christian frameworks that often struggled to make sense of forgiveness and reconciliation. Drawing from ASR’s work with young people, Ramy will share how communities are being formed for healing and resilience amid Lebanon’s ongoing fragility. Together, we will reflect on what it means to pursue peace in contexts where the threat of violence is real.

Creation care is not only a crucial component of our Christian calling, but an integral element of peacebuilding. Join us as we explore scriptural and theological evidence of God’s call for humans to live in right relationship with all aspects of creation. We'll also examine how combating ecological crises can help reduce international conflict and decrease systemic injustice. Lastly, we'll discuss how taking steps to cultivate care for creation has a tangible impact, not only on the earth itself, but in our own lives, bringing joy, hope, and peace.

In a time when building just and peaceful communities requires so much change, it can be confusing and overwhelming to understand  how to get involved. Beyond familiar activities like attending a protest or volunteering with a nonprofit, how does social change actually occur? And where do our own unique gifts and passions fit it?

We all dream of transforming our communities for the better, but how do we actually make that happen? Join us for this 3-hour interactive, participatory workshop to learn the six steps to building a successful nonviolent campaign.

Hear from two Sudanese men, Kizito Kuku and Kaffi Kaffi, who lead Trauma Rescue Aid, a grassroots Sudanese organization meeting the physical and mental health needs of refugee families with love and care. Rejecting the logic of domination, they seek to overcome evil with good by cultivating a community of care for Sudanese refugees from all backgrounds. Come to learn, be inspired, and find new ways to stand in solidarity with the Sudanese people in this dire time.

When our neighbors are threatened and hurt by those in power, protests and vigils are essential ways to prophetically demand justice and care. But if those demands are ignored, what else can we do? In this workshop, we will explore the nonviolent tactics beyond protests and mass demonstrations, the strategies we can use speak truth to power, stop cooperating with those causing harm, and intervene to disrupt the injustice.

Join Peace Catalyst and other Jesus followers for a reflective and supportive conversation to process what we are seeing and experiencing in our communities toward our immigrant neighbors. We will name and mourn the pain our government has caused, ask questions and share about the many ways we are showing up to support and advocate, and make space for prayer, hope, and re-commitment to the challenging path of neighbor love.  

St Luke's Church Norwich and Peace Catalyst Norwich present, "Peace and Goodwill beyond Christmas," a seminar that ties Christian Peacebuilding to the Christmas story.

Moments of conflict or tension are often scary to us because we fear the battle they might spark. But "tricky topics" don’t have to be scary.

Dialogue is a fundamental skill and a critical part of being a peacebuilder, both in our personal lives and more formal peacebuilding work. Join us, as we approach the upcoming holiday season, for an introductory workshop on the basics of dialogue.

Join us for a conversation about the question, “Who counts as ‘Christian’?” The question may seem simple, but how we answer it reveals our underlying frameworks. We’ll be discussing topics like what happens when we stop drawing boundaries and start focusing on movement toward God’s shalom instead - and much more.

Many of us “bury our heads in the sand” when difficult stories of systemic and structural violence surface and require a reckoning. Join this conversation to engage a theological and ethical framework for understanding why working with and through complicity is so difficult. We will also identify spiritual practices that help us keep our heads up in times of upheaval. 

Join Dougle, PCI's Peace Ambassador in Lithuania, for an interview with Palestinian Christian theologians John and Samuel Munayer. John and Samuel represent a young generation of Palestinian theologians and have co-edited a book, full of authors who also represent this younger generation, that wrestles with the current genocide taking place in Gaza. This interview will touch on the origins and development of Palestinian theology and how it addresses the Gaza genocide.