Global Peace Education Day

​This free international gathering will be held Sunday, September 20, 2026, online via Zoom, from 11 am EDT until 2 pm EDT. The conference features leaders and artists sharing approaches to peacebuilding that can be applied in communities, schools, organizations, and public life.

​The Global Peace Education Network promotes a simple message: “Peace is learnable.” As communities across the world face violence, polarization, trauma, forced displacement, and ecological strain, Global Peace Education Day offers something urgently needed: a serious, hopeful, practical response. This year’s conference is organized around the National Peace Academy’s Five Spheres of Peace: personal, social, political, institutional, and ecological. Together, these five spheres offer a practical framework for understanding peace not as an abstract ideal, but as something that can be taught, practiced, embedded in institutions, and lived in daily life.

​Hosted by Dr. Marty K. Casey, founder of the UnGUN Institute in St. Louis, Missouri, the 2026 conference centers on the theme “Peace Education for Everyone, Everywhere.”Featured presenters include His Excellency Ambassador Dr. Khalid Ghanim Al-Ghaith, Dr. Francisco Rojas Aravena, Donato Kiniger-Passigli, Dr. Pia R. Britto, Mabingue Ngom, Kehkashan Basu, Dr. Lisa Worth Huber, Dr. Darlene Shelton, Professor Edward J. Nell, Dr. Prem Rawat, Hussein al Amry, Jacob Johns, Victoria Kanu, Juan Antonio Simarro, and others.

​Registration is free and donations are welcome.

​About the Global Peace Education Network The Global Peace Education Network, Inc., connects peace educators around the world, advocates for peace education, and showcases effective ideas and practices that help build a more just, compassionate, and peaceful world. The US tax exempt 501(c)(3) organization is volunteer driven and supported by voluntary contributions.