What Peace Looks Like When People Are Already Building It
A child practices breathing before running to a bomb shelter. Children save part of their school meal to take home. Indigenous leaders ask the world to listen. These are some of the stories shared by people working in communities across the world during this year’s International Day of Peace.
What Does It Mean to Practice Peace Now?
Through the experiences of people working in communities, systems, and conflict, a fuller picture of peace emerges—grounded in how people live and care for one another.
Meeting The Moment Reflection
Reflections from a shared exploration of how we find orientation, stay present to what is unfolding, and recognize our place within change.
Ben Bowler and the Hard Work of Staying Together
Ben Bowler has spent years bringing people and organizations together around unity and peace. Along the way, he has learned that the real test of unity is not whether we agree, but whether we can remain connected when we don’t.
The Peace Networks Hidden Inside War
Across Gaza, Sudan, Ukraine, and Iran, people are building networks of care, trust, and cooperation that cross conflict lines and offer a quieter story of what is possible in the midst of war.
Rev. Deborah Moldow and the Dream of a Culture of Peace
From child actress to interfaith minister and longtime peacebuilder, Rev. Deborah Moldow has spent decades exploring how inner transformation becomes a culture of peace—and what it means to listen for what is ours to do.
Peace Begins at the Center
World peace can feel impossibly large. Markabadi brings the question closer to home, exploring inner peace as a practice of stillness, choice, and response—and considering how what we cultivate within ourselves can ripple outward into our relationships, communities, and world.
Jon Ramer Doesn’t Believe in Peace. He Practices It.
What if peace is not something we wait for, but something we practice together? Peacebuilder Jon Ramer explores relationship without domination, coopetition, collective intelligence, and the audacious experiment to prove peace is possible.
When Disaster Comes Home
As the Spokane Complex Fire threatened his home community, the founder of NewStories discovered that 50 years of disaster work doesn’t make the fear go away—it just tells you what to do next.
Growing Something Real
Growing food is a small act with a long reach—a return to relationship with the land, with our bodies, and with the systems that actually sustain us.
Meg Wheatley on Compassion Without Aggression
Taking our place in this time as Warriors for the Human Spirit: Meg Wheatley on freeing ourselves from ego, wielding compassion fiercely, and accepting that we are always, in some quiet way, sad—and that this is not a problem.
For When We Hit ‘Empty’
When we’ve given everything and the disruptions keep coming, the way forward isn’t pushing harder—it’s learning to tend ourselves back to life, one small act at a time.
A Cat, an Ant, and the Question of Consciousness
What grief opens up when we let it: a meditation on consciousness, living systems, and the possibility that life is far more mysterious and interconnected than we’ve been taught to believe.
Camp Fire as Catalyst
When disaster burns everything away, what remains is the clarity to build the life—and the community—you actually want.
Re-Storying the Ruins: Connection Dissolves Despair
What communities rising from disaster can teach us about building the new: it’s an insider’s job, and relationship—and patience—is the strategy.
Reflections From an Earth Day Fair
An Earth Day Fair, which at first seemed a disappointment, revealed there are many opportunities to get involved just by taking the time to look around and get involved. What a good reminder that even a small effort can be something worthwhile.