The Global Humanity for Peace (GHfP) Institute was jointly launched by the University of Wales Trinity Saint David (UWTSD) and the Guerrand-Hermès Foundation in 2021. It is located in the UWTSD’s Lampeter Campus, supported by global partners.
The GHfP Institute was established to carry forward a major UNESCO Initiative on Healing-Justice-Well-Being, and international research programmes, such as G20 Interfaith Forum’s policy research, formerly developed at the Guerrand-Hermès Foundation, which are now embedded in an excellent research and teaching environment and learning community of the UWTSD.
The Institute seeks to engage in cutting-edge research aimed at new understanding, innovation, policy change, and social transformation. It offers masters courses and doctoral and professional programmes in positive peace (including collective healing), public health and well-being, social justice, intercultural/interfaith/intergenerational dialogue, human-centred education, and community regeneration.
The Institute focuses on positive peace and international cooperation through the following:
- Fostering collective healing (including healing the wounds from past atrocities and the wounds of our planet), enriching community regeneration, and advancing social justice and global solidarity;
- Empowering youth leadership, nurturing youth transformative competences and providing professional development opportunities to facilitators of collective healing and community regeneration
- Enhancing holistic human well-being in harmony with our planet’s flourishing
- Supporting the development of governance processes that are values-based, dialogue-centred, and well-being sensitive
- Encouraging educational transformation and inspiring a culture of caring in educational institutions;
- Creating spaces for mutual encounter, active listening, and deep dialogue for engendering peacefulness and greater harmony amongst all that is.
All these activities are to be enacted within the UNESCO’s framework for intercultural dialogue, and aligned with UNESCO’s priorities and objectives.