A practitioner’s guide to peace-based civilization
This Atlas emerges from the joint Peaceful Futures programme initiated by the Learning Planet Institute and Global Education Futures, aligned with UNESCO. Peaceful Futures aims to train and empower hundreds of young leaders worldwide, fostering true artisans of peace, with the support of leading institutional and on-the-ground partners. At the heart of this collaboration lies a profound recognition that the Learning Planet Institute aims to transform the way we learn and teach, so that every learner becomes an agent of change committed to Wellbeing, Peace, Democracy, Equity and Sustainability.
The Learning Planet Institute’s commitment to reinventing learning for all ages to collectively shape better futures naturally aligns with the peace-building imperative. Since it’s creation in 2006, the Institute focuses on youth empowerment and transformative education. In March 2025, it has become the United Nations University (UNU) Hub for the Future of Learning with Youth. This expertise and global legitimacy provide essential foundations for cultivating the next generation of peacebuilders.
Peaceful Futures can thus benefit from a range of other activities that are mobilising thousands of Youth changemakers already engaged in the fields of education, rights, health and the environment, such as the Youth Design Challenge, Re-Model UN, the network of Youth Fellows, etc. All domains intimately connected to
peace-building work.
Central to both the Peaceful Futures programme and this Atlas of Peace Practices is the conviction that young people are not just beneficiaries of peace education but active co-creators of peaceful futures. This youth-centered approach reflects the Learning Planet Institute’s broader commitment to learner agency, and participatory and intergenerational approaches to addressing global challenges.