This year, we invite 150 young people from all over the world to come together in The Hague for one shared purpose: PEACE ACTIVITY.
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. But that won’t be all! There will also be plenty of space for meeting, networking and connecting to interesting partners in the field of Peace and Justice!
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: Increase inclusive representation of youth in decision-making at local, national, regional, and international levels, particularly in peace processes and negotiations.
- Protection: Actively protect the lives, human rights, and security of young civilians, ensuring safety from all forms of violence, especially gender-based violence, during armed conflict and post-conflict.
- Prevention: Support youth in preventing violence by creating safe spaces, fostering a culture of tolerance, and promoting dialogue, intercultural education, and social cohesion.
- Partnerships: Enhance collaborations between young people, civil society, security actors, and governments, providing financial and technical support for youth-led peacebuilding initiatives.
- Disengagement and Reintegration: Support the reintegration of youth directly affected by armed conflict, facilitating education, training, and economic opportunities to rebuild their lives and prevent re-engagement in violence.
These workshops connect global policy to local action and empower youth to translate the Resolution into concrete peace initiatives. Input from all these workshops are put together in one single document, the Youth Peace Charter: an actionable Peace Document turning a vision of dialogue and advocacy into concrete ideas participants can use to create their own Peace-related activities in their own communities.
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.
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The full programme of the Youth Peace Summit 2026 will be published here. Stay tuned for new announcements.