Peace Connect 2025:
13-17 October,
Nairobi, Kenya

A global peacebuilding gathering, for local peacebuilders and their allies – Peace Connect 2025 was the first event of its kind. Hundreds of peacebuilders from the Global South came together for five days to share, learn and create.
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Read our reflections

Learn more about what happened at Peace Connect 2025 from our reflection report:

Peace Connect 2025 Reflections – English
Peace Connect 2025 Reflections – Français (French)
Peace Connect 2025 Reflections – Español (Spanish)
Peace Connect 2025 Reflections – العربي (Arabic)

View the programme   Meet the peacebuilders that shaped Peace Connect 2025

“This is not a conference”

Peace Connect 2025 was a five-day gathering for local peacebuilders and their allies. Over 13-17 October 2025, we came together in Nairobi, Kenya, for a week of connection, creativity, and collective action.

  • Peace Connect Day 1,

Our goals for Peace Connect 2025:

Build community and solidarity

Peace Connect 2025 aimed to create an inclusive space for peacebuilders from diverse backgrounds to come together and share experiences. Through curated and open-space sessions, we wanted to facilitate meaningful networking opportunities, helping to build a united, global community of peacebuilders.

Elevate the peacebuilding sector

Peace Connect 2025 aimed to elevate local peacebuilding efforts, which are often overlooked by the international community.

Facilitate collaborative action and analysis

By bringing together peacebuilders from conflict areas across the world, Peace Connect 2025 created space for peacebuilders to engage in strategic conversations, explore solutions and strengthen collective efforts.

Make space to learn and reflect

This gathering wasn’t just about networking; it was about learning.

We heard from thought leaders and local practitioners, who shared insights on the most pressing challenges in peacebuilding today. Together, we reflected on new ideas, solutions, and opportunities for collective action.

Forge powerful alliances

Peace Connect 2025 brought together established networks such as UNOY, GPPAC, ICAN, and #ShiftThePower, fostering collaboration across these movements. Sessions curated by these networks tackled key themes, including funding, tech, gender, youth, peace and security.

Focus on mental health and self-care

Peacebuilding is difficult and demanding work, and peacebuilders can face mental health challenges as a result. Peace Connect 2025 offered self-care practices, resilience-building strategies, and psychological well-being support, including a quiet space for peacebuilders to rest and recharge.

The Global Advisory Group

Our advisory group was made up of peacebuilders from across the Global South. They shaped Peace Connect 2025 to be a place of comfort, support and solidarity – created by and for Global South peacebuilders.

Learn more about our advisory group members.

We are grateful to these wonderful organisations for supporting Peace Connect 2025

Peace Connect 2025 was co-hosted by IPHRD-Africa and Peace Direct.

IPHRD-Africa is a non-profit organisation based in Kenya, with a focus on promoting a human rights approach to governance and peace-building for sustainable development in Africa.

Peace Direct is an international peacebuilding charity based in the UK, focussed on supporting local peacebuilders in conflict-affected regions around the world.

The New Humanitarian is the official media partner of Peace Connect.

The New Humanitarian is an independent, non-profit newsroom that believes in journalism as a force for good. TNH produces fact-based journalism from the heart of conflicts and disasters to build understanding of how to improve the lives of the millions of people affected by humanitarian crises around the world.