Festival
Just Peace Festival 2025
- Date
- Thursday 12 June 2025 - Thursday 26 June 2025
- Address
- The City of the Hague
We are excited to announce the Just Peace Festival, a vibrant platform for dialogue, collaboration, and action on the pressing global challenges of peace and justice! The festival is the culmination of The Hague’s Road to Summit programme and is a collaborative initiative founded by the Hague Humanity Hub and Leiden University with the support of the Municipality of The Hague.
What is the Just Peace Festival?
In today’s interconnected world, where armed conflict, inequality, environmental threats, and social divides threaten democracy and global stability, the Just Peace Festival brings together citizens, experts, artists, policymakers, and activists.
Through interactive sessions, workshops, exhibitions, and performances, the festival celebrates efforts toward peace, fosters meaningful conversations, and inspires collective action.
The Just Peace Festival touches upon six themes:
- Peace and Justice
- Democracy
- Inclusion, (In)Equality and Diversity
- Climate and Resilience
- International Rule of Law
- (Cyber)Resilience
It is the perfect opportunity to come together, discover new perspectives and actively contribute to a better, more just world. Don't miss it, this will be a festival full of creativity, inspiration and impact!
Just Peace Dialogues
The Just Peace Dialogues are a set of meetings for public deliberation of key aspects of building peace in today’s world. The dialogues are held across four days at the heart of the Just Peace Festival (19-22 June 2025) and address each of the festival’s six main themes. The aim is stimulate creative discussion about conditions for a just peace in contemporary society.
The dialogues are:
- Imagining Peace (16 June 2025 16:00 - 19:00);
- Peace in Europe (17 June 2025 16:00 - 19:00);
- Peace in Sudan (18 June 2025 16:00 - 19:00);
- Peace in Israel-Palestine (19 June 16:00 - 19:00);
- Democracy and Peace (20 June 2025 16:00 - 19:00);
- Cybersecurity and Peace (21 June 10:30 - 13:45);
- Rule of Law and Peace (21 June 14:00 - 17:15);
- Equality and Peace (22 June 10:30 -13:45);
- Climate and Peace (22 June 14:00 - 17:15).