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Being Peace Making Peace
Being Peace, Making Peace: Can Higher Education Help Us Become Peace?Bahá’í Chair for World Peace, University of MarylandWednesday 21 October 2026, 2:00–3:30pm ET (7:00–8:30pm UK) · Online · Free Professor Scherto Gill, Director of the Global Humanity for Peace Institute, will give a public lecture for the Bahá’í Chair for World Peace. Why do societies…
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Educational Ecosystems Symposium
Advancing the Conversation on Educational Ecosystems and Well-Being Earlier this month, the Global Humanity for Peace Institute in partnership with CATESCO, convened an international online symposium bringing together leading scholars, educators and practitioners from across the world. The symposium formed part of the development of the forthcoming Routledge International Handbook of Educational Ecosystems and Well-Being, an ambitious…
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Global Humanity for Peace Annual Report 2025
Promoting peace and a flourishing human future Established in 2021 as a collaboration between the University of Wales Trinity Saint David (UWTSD) and the Guerrand-Hermès Foundation for Peace, the Institute advances positive peace and global well-being through research, publications, educational programmes, professional development and community engagement. The year was marked by geopolitical tension, climate displacement…
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Research Spotlight: New Perspectives on Healing Collective Trauma
How do we heal history’s deepest wounds? In her new Open Access book, “New Perspectives on Healing Collective Trauma,” Prof. Scherto Gill brings together global voices to explore the intersection of structural justice, intergenerational dialogue, and collective healing. Featuring insights from Professors Myriam Cottias, Ana Lucia Araujo, and Lord Alderdice, Drs Joy DeGruy, Ali Moussa…
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Young Changemakers Programme, Rome 2025
Global Humanity for Peace Institute, is delighted to have accepted applications for the 2025 Young Changemakers Programme (YCP), a unique international opportunity for young people aged 19–27 to develop their potential as changemakers. 2025 marked the Catholic Jubilee. Inviting us to embrace forgiveness, share hope, and aspire towards renewal. In this spirit, 2025 Young Changemakers Programme (YCP) was…
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Ethics Education Fellowship, transforming education
The GHfP Institute is a research partner for The Ethics Education Fellowship programme (EEF). EEF seeks to strengthen the sustainable delivery of ethics education programs for children in formal education settings to advance global citizenship and build more peaceful and inclusive societies. Teachers who took part in our program report stronger competencies and an improved ability…
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Simone Weil on love, justice and collective healing.
New Peer-Reviewed Open-Access Article. Read the full paper here: Dehumanisation as spiritual harm: Simone Weil on love justice and collective healing This paper examines the spiritual dimension of dehumanisation and argues that confronting this neglected aspect is essential to healing historical and structural harms. Drawing on the philosophical and theological writings of Simone Weil, it…
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Prof Scherto Gill presenting Collective Healing Initiative at 2025 Inner Development Goals Summit
In this video, Prof Scherto Gill offers an outline of her presentation at 2025 Inner Development Goals Summit, focusing on exploring the four processes of the UNESCO Collective Healing Initiative, including an intergenerational approach to leadership as healership. On October 16th, at the IDG Summit, Track 6 – Healing the Roots of What Drives Us…
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STAND UP FOR CHILDREN IN WAR!
On International Day of Peace, we call all partners to join this global mobilization for individual and collective consciousness to ignite hope, raise awareness, and inspire action to protect children from war. In 2024, over 473 million children lived in conflict zones. The world is witnessing an alarming rise in armed conflicts, violence, and displacement, and…
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Intergenerational Dialogue for Well-Being Futures: Reflections from Workshop
On 19th September, scholars, researchers and practitioners gathered in Mansfield College, Oxford, for a workshop on Intergenerational Dialogue for Well-Being Futures. This event was co-convened in partnership with the Journal of Dialogue Studies, which will publish a special issue (Vol. 14, 2025) on the same theme. My motivation for guest-editing this issue arises from five…
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Intergenerational Dialogue for Well-Being Futures: Theories, Practices and Policy Pathways.
An Academic Workshop 19th September 2025, Mansfield College, Oxford The Journal of Dialogue Studies, in partnership with the GHfP Institute, the Guerrand-Hermès Foundation for Peace, UNESCO Collective Healing Initiative, invited contributions for a special issue exploring the role of intergenerational dialogue in shaping collective well-being futures. In recognising that despite global commitments to the UN Sustainable Development Goals…
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Collective Healing Initiative. Facilitators Learning Circle, September 2025
By Scherto R. Gill, Director, Global Humanity for Peace Institute Every other month, on the second Tuesday, a constellation of facilitators gathers online — a learning circle stretching across 16 countries, 4 continents, and 4 languages: English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese. With the gentle help of AI translation, each voice is received in our own…
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A Global Study on Futures-Forming Leadership
This year, the GHfP Institute has engaged in a global study, commissioned by UNESCO, to explore youth’s needs for leadership development. What marks this research unique is that it has involved youth co-researchers throughout, from identifying research questions, to designing the research questionnaire, from hosting focus-groups, to analysing the data and identifying themes and proposing…
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The Golden Patches: Embracing Intergenerational Wisdom
In Colombia, Cauca, south of Popayán, at the Estrella Roja Humanitarian Camp, established during the 2021 Social Outbreak, has emerged as an organizational experience sustained by community self-management and the leadership of women, youth, and diverse families who defend life, territory, and dignity. As part of the implementation of the Collective Healing Circles Program, an…
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Prof Scherto Gill’s Keynote Lecture at SMN Annual Gathering 2025
On 29th June, Prof Scherto Gill provided a closing keynote lecture at the Scientific and Medical Network’s 2025 Annual Gathering, entitled: Love: Mediating the Earthly and the Heavenly, Integrating the Immanent and the Transcendent. Other speakers at this event were Prof Federico Faggin and Prof Sarah Stewart-Brown. In her lecture, Scherto sets the challenge in…
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The Hardest Bridge. 30th May 2025 Screening.
40 years ago, when Sir Anthony Berry MP was killed in the IRA Brighton Bombing during the 1984 Tory Party Conference, his daughter Jo stepped into a world of conflict she barely knew. In November 2000 she met Patrick Magee, the former IRA activist responsible for her father’s death. This encounter has deepened her awareness…
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Beyond Inhumanity – Open-Access book published by DeGruyter
This book emerges from the ongoing intellectual dialogue as part of the UNESCO Collective Healing Initiative. The Initiative focuses on healing the wounds of inhumanity, co-creating just societies and enhancing the flourishing of current and future generations. Brings together under-explored questions and provides succinct answers to them in one volume. Includes multi-disciplinary perspectives. is connected…
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Meeting Baroness Patricia Scotland during 2025 Well-Being Economy Forum
Scherto Gill, Director, Global Humanity for Peace Institute During 2025 Well-Being Economy Forum, held on 8-9 May in Reykjavik, Iceland, I had a unique opportunity to meet with Rt Hon. Baroness Patricia Scotland, KC, former Secretary-General of the Commonwealth Secretariat. In our conversation, I have learned that Baroness Scotland’s leadership approach was particularly innovative and…
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Well-Being Economy Forum, 2025
Reykjavik, Iceland. Prof Scherto Gill joined the Rector of Icelandic University and former educational minister of Italy in an important panel to explore how higher education might nurture well-being.… Continue reading Well-Being Economy Forum, 2025
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Spirit of Humanity Forum, 2025
The 7th Spirit of Humanity (SoH) Forum brought together over 160 leaders, change-makers, and visionaries from more than 40 countries in Reykjavík, Iceland, under the theme “Inner Wisdom in Governance – Acting with Courage and Compassion.” Held partly in collaboration with the Wellbeing Economy Forum, the gathering created a heart-centred space to explore how inner…
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UN ECOSOC Youth Forum, 2025
Despite global commitments to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), persistent barriers have continued to hinder meaningful progress. Amongst these barriers, are transgenerational trauma, gender-based inequality, limited opportunities for youth engagement, and fragmented community responses. The UNESCO Collective Healing Initiative, through its pioneering Intergenerational Dialogue and Inquiry (IDI) approach, uniquely tackles these barriers by harnessing cultural wisdom,…
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UN International Day of Conscience, 2025
The International Day of Conscience (IDC) on 5 April has been established in 2019 by the General Assembly of the United Nations to invite all human beings to focus their minds every year on how to build a culture of peace with love and conscience. The International Day of Conscience (IDC) 2025 offered an opportunity for people and…
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Advancing Positive Peace in a Fractured World: Reflections from the GHfP Institute’s 2024 Achievements
The year 2024 was a paradoxical one. As global conflicts deepened and social inequalities widened, efforts towards positive peace, well-being, and collective healing gained momentum. The Global Humanity for Peace (GHfP) Institute has been at the forefront of these efforts, fostering transformative research, facilitating intergenerational dialogue, and nurturing changemakers committed to reimagining more just and…
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Intergenerational Dialogue at UNESCO Global Forum
Professor Scherto Gill of the Global Humanity for Peace Institute joined the UNESCO 2024 Global Forum Against Racism and Discrimination held in Barcelona on 10th and 11th of December. The Forum brought together technical and policy experts to advocate for and advance the international movement for structural justice and social equality. As the Coordinator of…
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UNESCO Routes of Enslaved People 30th Anniversary
The GHfP Institute was delighted to join UNESCO in celebrating 30 years of the Routes of Enslaved Peoples (REP) Programme in Paris in October 2024. At this extraordinary event, the GHfP co-organised the presentation of the UNESCO partnership initiative on Collective Healing, Just Society and Global Well-Being. The Collective Healing Initiative is committed to addressing…
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GHfP Institute at UNESCO HQ – Collective Healing Handbook
On 10th October 2024, UNESCO Assistant Director General, Mrs Gabriela Ramos, launched the Collective Healing Handbook for Facilitators in Paris, to mark the 30th Anniversary of UNESCO Routes of Enslaved People’s Programme. The research and development of this Handbook was supported by grants from the Guerrand-Hermès Foundation for Peace. The Handbook is intended to support the…
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Conference on Resolution of Intractable Conflict, 2024
The GHfP Institute is a partner of the annual Conference on Resolution of Intractable Conflict. The 2024 CRIC was held on 23rd to 25th September at Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford. This was the 11th Annual Conference which took place amid deepening concerns about the deteriorating geopolitical tensions. Hence the theme of 2024 CRIC…
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The Imagine Forum, Iceland October 2024.
Hosted by Höfði Reykjavik Peace Centre, in collaboration with the Icelandic Ministry for Foreign Affairs, the Forum featured keynote addresses from distinguished experts and dynamic panel discussions with practitioners, researchers, and high-level officials working within their own countries and as international supporters of peace-making efforts. This year, the GHfP Institute took part in the Imagine Forum held…
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Geneva Peace Week Ethics Education Workshop
The workshop contributed towards engaging in a narrative analysis about structural and cultural violence in schools, as well as aiming to contribute to generate reflections on how schools can become champions of peace through interactive pedagogical approaches, inclusive learning environments, dialogue approaches, children-led solutions, community engagement and a whole-school approach.… Continue reading Geneva Peace Week…
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Symposium on the Centrality of Harmony in Education
July 2024 IF20 Education Symposium G20 Interfaith Forum (IF20) has convened diverse interfaith actors inspired by the G20 agendas since 2014. Through dialogue, and analytic work, IF20 aims to enrich the G20 process by bringing the wisdom, experience, and voice of diverse faith communities alongside other global constituencies. IF20 Education Working Group (Edu WG), chaired…
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UNESCO Symposium on Well-Being of Future Generations
Well-Being of Future Generations: A Co-Creative Approach, Harpa, Reykjavik. June 2024. When our current economic systems effectively prioritise materialism, self-interest, and other misplaced values, a greater majority of humanity suffers. Some grapple with political antagonism and oppression, some experience racism and discrimination, and others struggle in poverty and marginalisation, and lack the opportunity for decent…
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Building a Global Healing Alliance
Throughout April 2024, experienced facilitators from across the world have been brought together by the UNESCO Collective Healing Initiative in a major step towards creating a global healing alliance of community-rooted Collective Healing Facilitators. The UNESCO Collective Healing Capacity Building Programme prepares participants to understand the key theoretical and methodological ideas underpinning the Collective Healing Initiative and builds their capacity to…
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Introduction to Collective-Healing facilitator capacity building.
The UNESCO Collective Healing Circles (CHCs) Capacity-Building for Facilitators is designed to support and nurture experienced facilitators who have interest in hosting UNESCO CHCs in your local community. Below is a short introduction to the UNESCO CHC Facilitators Capacity Building, including: It is highly recommended that all facilitators who wish to take part in the…
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UNESCO Symposium at VUU, 2024
Understanding and healing relational and spiritual harm of dehumanisation Collective Healing, Social Justice and Global Well-Being is a UNESCO initiative aimed at addressing the legacies of dehumanisation, including the harms of transoceanic enslavement of Africans, colonialism, continued racism, and other forms of structural discrimination. An important aspect of this initiative is to investigate the plethora…
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Symposium on Understanding and Healing the Spiritual Harm of De-Humanisation.
without acknowledging relational and spiritual harms, collective efforts to confront the legacies of transoceanic enslavements and continued injustices against people of African and indigenous descent may fall short. Mere materialistic repairs, such as reducing economic disparity, levelling public services, and providing equal access to health, education, housing, finance, and employment, are not enough. … Continue…
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Conference on Resolution of Intractable Conflict, 2022
The Conference on the Resolution of Intractable Conflict is an Oxford-based, multi-disciplinary, global network of researchers and practitioners who apply cutting edge field-based research methods from the cognitive and behavioural sciences in collaboration with the policy community to better understand and address politically motivated violence. The CRIC Annual Conference took place from the 19th to…
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Educational Evaluation for Well-Being. October 2022
Educational thinkers, practitioners and policymakers discussed the challenges of the current assessment paradigm, and explored the potentials of an innovative orientation to education, one that places the process of relating at the centre of learning and well-being! Many believe that the building blocks for realising the potentials of a relation-centred education are largely in place.…
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Governance for the Human Future: The Centrality of Dialogue
Past event, September 2022. The Journal of Dialogue Studies, in partnership with the Global Humanity for Peace Institute, invited papers that explore the ways governance processes might be improved by drawing on insights from innovative dialogue theories and congenial dialogue practices. These papers were presented in an International Academic Workshop entitled “Governance for the Human…