MISSION STATEMENT
JustPeace is committed to peace, justice, and human security in countries affected by conflict. Working in solidarity with civil society organisations and communities, JustPeace strives to amplify the peacebuilding and justice efforts of its partner organisations.
JustPeace combines project work with think tank elements, centring locally-driven strategies, knowledge, and leadership to challenge systemic injustices and build sustainable, people-led peace.
JustPeace’s projects feature innovative, approaches to peace processes, justice, and governance reforms.
JustPeace supports negotiations and dialogues, transitional and restorative justice processes, and other pathways toward transformative change rooted in community leadership and self-determination.
STRUCTURE
JustPeace is an independent non-governmental organisation established as an Association.
The envisioned structure of JustPeace aims to bring together a CSO Alliance, an Exchange Forum, regional Hubs, and a Lab, fostering an inclusive and participatory space for exchange and collaboration.
Civil society organisations (CSOs), researchers and practitioners can join JustPeace as members. The Hubs and the Lab are intended to be established in collaboration with CSO partners, creating opportunities for collective action towards shared goals.
ACTIVITIES
The CSO Alliance, led by its diverse membership, defines strategic positions and standards for international cooperation. In our Lab, practitioners from across the globe will develop innovative approaches to fostering peace, justice, and human security.
The outcomes of these collective efforts will inform projects that are designed and led by CSOs, with technical and administrative support from the Hubs.
JustPeace exclusively relies on civilian-led, nonviolent approaches to peacebuilding, centring the rights, leadership, and lived experiences of communities most affected by conflict.
CHALLENGES
We are living through a time of deepening global inequalities rooted in entrenched power imbalances. These are not isolated crises but systemic issues—manifesting through the climate emergency, racial and gendered oppression, economic exploitation, colonial legacies, and the marginalisation of communities. These structures fuel violence, injustice, and increasingly militarised responses to social and political demands.
Too often, responses focus on the symptoms—such as conflict—rather than the systems of domination, extraction, and exclusion that produce them. Political, economic, and cultural power remains concentrated in ways that silence those most affected, disregarding their knowledge, leadership, and agency.
At JustPeace, we centre these root causes. We reject neutrality in the face of injustice and position ourselves within a broader movement committed to challenging the structures that uphold inequality. True change comes through collective action, solidarity, and confronting the systems that sustain oppression.
PEACE
Peace is more than the absence of violence; it is the presence of justice, dignity, and self-determination.
Sustainable peace can only be achieved by addressing the root causes of conflict—such as systemic oppression, colonial legacies, racial and gendered inequalities, economic exploitation, illegitimate rule, and structural insecurity.
JustPeace recognises that peace, justice, and human security are deeply interconnected and must be shaped by those most affected by violence and injustice. We support approaches that prioritise collective liberation, centre grassroots leadership, and uphold the knowledge and agency of communities. JustPeace works in solidarity with those striving to end violence, challenge systemic injustice, and build just, equitable, and self-determined futures.
JUSTICE
Justice – in all its dimensions – is central to the work of JustPeace.
To advance transformative justice and challenge systemic inequalities, we work in solidarity with our partners to strengthen people-led legal and accountability mechanisms, ensuring meaningful and equitable access to justice.
During and after violent conflict, we support community-driven transitional justice processes that not only address past harms but also dismantle structures of oppression to prevent their recurrence.
We embrace an intersectional, approach to identify and redress overlapping forms of structural discrimination, oppression, and harm, centering the voices and leadership of those most affected.
HUMAN SECURITY
In international relations and cooperation, security is often framed through the interests of states, with resources primarily directed toward government priorities, frequently emphasising securitised approaches.
A human security approach shifts the focus to the well-being, dignity, and safety of people, recognising the interconnected nature of social, political, economic, and environmental challenges. It moves beyond militarised responses to emphasise holistic, community-led solutions that foster collective resilience and justice.
As an analytical and planning framework, human security highlights the interwoven factors that shape insecurity—such as state and structural violence, organised crime, forced labor, climate injustice, domestic violence and public health crises—while centering responses that are participatory, inclusive, and rooted in lived experiences.
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LET’S TALK
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