Join the organisation of the Just Peace Festival 2025!
A yearly event dedicated to reflect about peace and justice
We are excited to announce the Just Peace Festival 2025, a vibrant platform for dialogue, collaboration, and action on the pressing global challenges of peace and justice!
Held in The Hague — known as the International City of Peace and Justice — the festival takes place between 16-22 June 2025 as the city prepares to host the 2025 NATO Summit. It offers a timely opportunity to reflect on NATO’s role in global security and explore alternative pathways for lasting peace.
The Just Peace Festival is a collaborative, multistakeholder initiative organised by The Hague Humanity Hub, Leiden University through the Global Transformations and Governance Challenges Programme, We Are Change Makers, and Spreeek, with the support of the Municipality of The Hague.
The programme will have a blend of cultural, academic, social, and entrepreneural events, all focused on how we can re-think peace and justice in the current world.
Why a 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 covering key themes such as climate justice, international law, and disinformation, the festival celebrates efforts toward peace, fosters meaningful conversations, and inspires collective action.
By making The Hague’s vital global work accessible to the public, the festival transforms the city into an open forum where the local and global intersect — creating a space where everyone has a voice in shaping a more just, peaceful and equitable future. We invite YOU to join us by contributing your voice, creativity, and expertise.
Why should you join?
The Just Peace Festival is a unique opportunity to:
- Engage with pressing global issues
- Share your voice, creativity and expertise
- Be part of a vibrant movement for peace and justice
We invite individuals, organisations and institutions dedicated to promoting peace and justice. We welcome NGOs raising awareness, cultural institutions using art to inspire dialogue, educators hosting workshops and discussions, grassroots movements mobilising communities, businesses advancing sustainability, citizens and activists amplifying their voices, and policymakers shaping a more just society.
How to participate
We are currently looking for contributors, partners, and co-creators. Your participation can have any shape and form!
Are you interested in joining the initiative and helping shape the festival with your ideas, expertise, and programming? Would you like to collaborate with other contributors in creating engaging activities? We would love to work with you in making the Festival as impactful as possible. Drop us a line at justpeacefestival@humanityhub.net and we will get back to you as soon as possible.
Info session
Are you excited and want to participate as a co-creator but are unsure yet how to engage? You are warmly welcome to join our info session on February 20th at the Hague Humanity Hub for a kick-off bringing together various (potential) contributors to the Festival to share ideas. If you have any questions or suggestions; feel free to reach out to us though GTGC@leidenuniv.nl or justpeacefestival@humanityhub.net.
Register for the info session here