Peaceful Futures
Welcome to Peaceful Futures!
Cultivating the Next Generation of Young Peacebuilders
According to Crisis Group, with 183 ongoing conflicts reported in 2023, the need for effective peacebuilding strategies is more urgent than ever. This urgency is echoed by the Youth Talks global survey, which engaged over 46,000 young people and revealed “Peace” as their foremost priority. The United Nations has also declared Peace Education a priority for 2024.
The “Peaceful Futures” programme, a joint initiative of Global Education Futures and the Learning Planet Institute, aligned with UNESCO, aims to train and empower hundreds of young leaders worldwide, fostering true artisans of peace.
Built around the co-design and acceleration of sustainable and scalable peacebuilding change projects tailored to their local contexts, the programme is based on strategic foresight thinking, conflict transformation tools, and a peace-oriented mindset.
Its purpose is to equip young peacebuilders with hands-on skills to address the root causes of conflicts and promote long-term harmony.
Programme overview
A 6-month pilot, a precursor to the full programme, includes:
- Online educational programme with webinars, podcasts, and Master classes for young leaders.
- Training the first cohort of young leaders to develop local change projects.
- Providing ongoing support and mentorship to selected leaders.
- An initial global community of practice for ongoing support.
- Open-source knowledge database of best practices and tools.
- Media campaigns to promote the project and its impact.
- Evaluation plans with continuous assessments, progress reviews, and final evaluations, including community impact metrics.
Young change-makers participants' profile
The programme targets young leaders aged 18-35 with experience in social entrepreneurship and/or NGO work.
Peaceful Futures will prioritise participants from high-tension and recovering from conflict regions from the Global South and respect gender diversity.
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Reasons to support Peaceful Futures
- The project is grounded in proven existing methodologies and supported by a strong network of global experts. Its focus on youth and local initiatives ensures relevance and sustainability.
- To mitigate potential risks such as political instability, cultural resistance, and local challenges, we have taken measures, including regional stakeholders, core partnership networks, and a community of practice, to ensure flexible strategies and project support.
- Your funding will enable high-impact, scalable initiatives that address urgent global needs.
The programme provides clear objectives, team expertise and measurable outcomes.
Goals for the 2025 edition
- Empowerment of a network of 150 young leaders with conflict transformation and strategic foresight tools.
- Initiating peacebuilding projects with robust guidance and mentorship.
- Fostering a community of practice – 250 experts, social entrepreneurs, and young leaders to exchange knowledge and collaborate.
- Positively impacting the quality of life for 5,000 people and indirectly touching up to 200’000 more through media outreach and partnerships.
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Three further project phases include a more expansive programme
Train 500+ young change-makers worldwide and provide extensive mentoring by global experts for 100 active and motivated leaders, impacting 15,000 people within communities with a strong media outreach.
Accelerate over 50 “positive peace” change projects with personalised mentorship and support, directly impacting up to 50,000 people within local communities and reaching out to up to 1,75M through media support (in addition to recurring Phase 1).
Establish 5 thematic “peaceful futures” competence hubs around the world to support 250+ projects of “positive peace” per year (in addition to recurring phases 1 & 2).
Peaceful Futures at the LearningPlanet Festival 2025
In the Mood for Peaceful Futures – Part 1: Asia, Africa & Europe
In the Mood for Peaceful Futures – Part 2: South and North America
Cultivating the Next Generation of Young Peacebuilders – In the Context of the UNESCO Chair
Leading organisations
Core team
Pavel LUKSHA, PhD
Content & Learning Methodology
Global Education Futures
Ilia LYSENKO
Project Management
Learning Planet Institute
Olivier BRECHARD
Partnerships Coordination
Learning Planet Institute
Elizabeth CHUKWU
Youth Ambassador
Peaceful Futures
Anastasia EVGRAFOVA
Marketing & Communications
Global Education Futures
Simba LI
Youth Ambassador
Peaceful Futures
Global Experts
Mandar APTE
Executive Director
Cities4Peace
Gaby ARENAS
Founder
Fundación TAAP
Charles AUTHEMAN
Expert
HEC Paris
Catalina COCK DUQUE
Co-founder & President
Fundación Mi Sangre
Raghda ELHALAWANY
Co-Director
MasterPeace Foundation
David GERSHON
Director of Research
The Laszlo Institute of New Paradigm Research (LINPR)
Jan HURWITCH
Executive Director
Fundacion Etica Visionaria
Yiannis LAOURIS
Lead Scientist
Future Worlds Center
Alexander LASZLO, Ph.D
Director of Research
The Laszlo Institute of New Paradigm Research (LINPR)
Ilgin PASLI-BROMBACH
Founder
planIMPACT
Anne-Marie VOORHOEVE
Founder & Strategic Connector
The Hague Center for Global Governance, Innovation and Emergence
Our partners
AIME
Cities4Peace
Compassion Games: Survival of the Kindest
Fundación EcoConciencia
Fundación Etica Visionaria
Fundación Mi Sangre
FutureWorldsCenter
MasterPeace
Peace on Earth by 2030
planIMPACT
Salzburg Global Seminar
Fundación TAAP
The Hague Center for Global Governance, Innovation and Emergence
YouthxYouth
Our Latest News
Press Release – The Learning Planet Institute & Global Education Futures publish the Atlas of Peaceful Futures Practices: a practical guide to building a civilisation founded on Peace
Paris, October 17, 2025 – The Learning Planet Institute & Global Education Futures announce the publication of their first edition of the Atlas of Peaceful Futures Practices.
Communiqué – Le Learning Planet Institute & Global Education Futures publient l’Atlas of Peaceful Futures Practices : un guide pratique pour bâtir une civilisation fondée sur la Paix
Le Learning Planet Institute & Global Education Futures annoncent la publication de la 1ere édition de l’Atlas of Peaceful Futures Practices.
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The Conversation – Réinventer les universités : et si nous leur donnions une mission planétaire ?
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L’Express Education – “Il faut redonner confiance aux jeunes !”
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Manifesto for the Planetary Mission of the University
This Manifesto proposes a Planetary Mission for universities: an evolution from knowledge gatekeepers to bridge-builders that orchestrate transdisciplinary solutions, steward the global commons, and nurture inclusive models of learning and governance. By Pavel Luksha & François Taddei.
Press Release – The Learning Planet Institute and UNU establish a “United Nations University Hub” – the First in France – Dedicated to the “Future of Learning with Youth”
The Learning Planet Institute and UNU establish a “United Nations University Hub” – the First in France – Dedicated to the “Future of Learning with Youth”.