Community-Driven Peacebuilding Track: GPLC Africa 2024

Global Peace Foundation

June 28, 2024

Two men stand at a podium, one speaking into a microphone. A banner behind them reads "Community-Driven Peacebuilding Track" at the 2024 GPLC Africa: Global Peace Leadership Conference.

A speaker stands at a podium holding a microphone beside a banner that reads "Global Peace Leadership Conference" with event details, highlighting the theme of Community-Driven Peacebuilding for GPLC Africa 2024.

An elderly man stands at a podium speaking into a microphone. Behind him is a banner that reads "Community-Driven Peacebuilding Track" with details about GPLC Africa 2024, a conference in Nairobi, Kenya.

At the GPLC Africa 2024 conference, a group of people sit in rows. A woman in the foreground smiles while others focus on their devices or engage in conversation. Name badges and lanyards are visible, highlighting the event's community-driven peacebuilding efforts.

A young man wearing a red sweater and white shirt with a tie and lanyard listens attentively in a crowded room at the GPLC Africa 2024, embodying the spirit of community-driven peacebuilding.

An individual stands at a podium speaking into a microphone. Behind them is a banner displaying information about the Global Peace Leadership Conference, held on June 26, 2023, in Nairobi, Kenya. Their address underscores the importance of community-driven peacebuilding ahead of GPLC Africa 2024.

A woman in a wheelchair speaks into a microphone during a gathering, with several people seated and attentive around her, including a person in a light floral jacket, discussing themes of Community-Driven Peacebuilding for the upcoming GPLC Africa 2024.

A man in a gray suit holding a microphone speaks at a podium with a "Community-Driven Peacebuilding Track" conference banner by GPLC Africa in the background.

A woman in a yellow shirt stands at the microphone, addressing a packed auditorium filled with people seated on blue chairs during the GPLC Africa 2024 event, emphasizing the importance of community-driven peacebuilding.

A speaker stands at a podium addressing an audience during the Community-Driven Peacebuilding Track at GPLC Africa 2024 in Nairobi, Kenya, on June 26.

A man dressed in traditional attire speaks into a microphone at the GPLC Africa 2024 conference. A bottle of water and a bottle of soda are placed on the table in front of him, discussing community-driven peacebuilding initiatives.

Local Leadership with Moral Authority: A Catalyst of African Renaissance

The promulgation of exclusive and narrow identities in our diverse and pluralistic world threatens humanity with a vicious cycle of underdevelopment, poverty, conflict and social disorder. Understanding our essential connectedness, shared identity, and common aspirations as members of the human family – beyond the boundaries of ethnicity, religion, and nationality – is the starting point for building peace. Universal principles and values, embraced by all faith and wisdom traditions, such as manifested in the deeply rooted ideal of Ubuntu, are the necessary foundation for ethical societies. Building cohesion within our great diversity requires intentional effort to forge consensus around shared values. These community-driven peacebuilding sessions examine how local faith and civil society leaders, as peacebuilders with moral authority, are becoming catalysts of an African Renaissance by working together to build ethical communities and sustainable peace.

The Community-Driven Peacebuilding Track was part of the Global Peace Leadership Conference Africa 2024 which was convened in Nairobi, Kenya, June 25-27, under the theme One Family under God: Empowering African Renaissance as a Global Catalyst for Freedom, Peace, and Sustainable Development.