This year, we invite 150 young people from all over the world to come together in The Hague for one shared purpose: peace.
As the international city of peace and justice, The Hague is the perfect place for a youth-led movement that carries peace efforts from the city to the world. The Youth Peace Summit is created by youth, for youth, and provides a platform where young people shape ideas, lead dialogue, and turn vision into action.
The Youth Peace Summit 2026 offers a rich and interactive programme featuring workshops, keynote speeches, discussion sessions, and writing sessions. Together, these elements explore themes such as peace advocacy, international security, dialogue-building, interculturality, and much more.
A central focus of the summit is UN Security Council Resolution 2250 on Youth, Peace and Security. Participants will engage in workshops and sessions built around its five pillars: Participation, Protection, Prevention, Partnerships, and Disengagement and Reintegration. These workshops connect global policy to local action and empower youth to translate the Resolution into concrete peace initiatives.
We co-create this programme with a wide and diverse network of partners from across the globe. To this end, we work together with organisations in the UK, Ireland, Korea, and beyond. Each partner contributes by organising workshops, delivering keynotes, and facilitating other programme elements, bringing unique expertise, perspectives, and energy to the summit.
Participants will also take part in writing sessions that contribute to the development of the Youth Peace Charter, turning dialogue into shared vision and concrete ideas.
In addition, we are organising an excursion to a special peace-focused location in The Hague, where participants will gain insight into peace initiatives in the Netherlands and beyond.
Want to know more about the organisations that make this summit possible? Please take a look at our Partners page.
The full programme of the Youth Peace Summit 2026 will be published here. Stay tuned for new announcements.
