Today’s most powerful transformations arise from the collective. Peacebuilding can no longer just rely on isolated actors or traditional institutions alone - it thrives from people organizing together, non-traditional partners, bridging differences, and mobilizing across borders, generations, and identities to create the conditions for lasting peace. When we collectively mobilize for peace, justice, climate, human rights, and beyond—weaving together our threads across gender, race, disability, age, nationality, and other identities—we create more courageous and transformative pathways to shared liberation and collective peace.

In the next Peace Prospects issue we aim to explore how movements are built, how collective action is catalyzed, and how everyday people are reclaiming agency to shape peaceful futures.

We are particularly interested in submissions that explore:

• How movements emerge, evolve, and sustain momentum

• Cross-movement solidarity and alliances and lessons from organizing traditions

• Tactics, strategies, and experiences that show how groups mobilize for peace

• How individuals and communities reclaim voice and influence in formal and informal peacebuilding spaces

• How technology shapes collective action from online organizing to digital security and countering misinformation

• How youth, elders, and diverse identities collaborate to imagine and enact peaceful futures

• Cultural and spiritual practices that bind people together and spark collective agency

We hope our readers will gain from this Issue:

• Insight into how communities and movements are transforming the landscape of peacebuilding.

• Inspiration from innovative approaches and real stories of collective courage.

• Guidance for how individuals, institutions, and networks can join, support, or amplify movements for peace.

• A deeper understanding of peace as a collective commitment—built, protected, and expanded through shared action.

• Let us mobilize and weave together a future where peace is a collective force led by and for the many. We invite you to add your voice, your experience, and your vision to this Issue.

What we’re looking for

• We seek stories, analyses, creative expressions, and grounded reflections that illuminate the power of communities and movements, and the infrastructures—material, cultural, and relational—that sustain peace movements and collective action in turbulent times. We welcome submissions from peacebuilders, organizers, scholars, artists, journalists, activists, educators, storytellers, movement leaders, spiritual practitioners, and anyone with lived or learned insight into collective action for peace.

• We welcome various formats, including essays, articles, interviews, visual stories, poetry, dialogues, case studies, and multimedia submissions.

• Diverse, intergenerational perspectives from around the world.

• Examples and stories of innovative and transformational approaches related to the theme, as well as individuals and groups leading these initiatives.

• Summaries of scholarship and research related to the theme.

• Articles summarizing peace leaders’ and/or scholars’ opinions and analysis of the theme, with the aim of stimulating reflection and discussion.

Examples of Content Types

• Feature Article: These are longer, more in-depth articles focused on scholarship and/or practice of peace leadership. Various styles are welcome, such as an article, interview, or story of a group, leader, program, event (1500-2000 words max).

• Spotlight: An article that provides short of multiple individuals, groups/organizations, or initiatives (800-1000 words max)

• Think Piece: An article presenting an author's opinions and analysis on a particular topic, usually designed to stimulate reflection and discussion. (800 words max)

• Creative: This can include art, photography, poetry, or other creative content that explore and/or represent the theme. (500 words max)

• Resources / Announcements: Short summaries of recently released resources (e.g., books, articles, tools) and announcements for upcoming opportunities (e.g., trainings, events, conferences). (250 words max)

Ethical Considerations

Your submission is expected to align with the following ethical principles:

• Integrity: Strive for complete accuracy and honesty, avoiding deception.

• Fairness: Treat all subjects, sources, and stakeholders with respect, impartiality, and provide them with an opportunity to respond to criticism.

• Do no harm: Consider the potential consequences of publishing content related to individuals and communities, and prevent all unnecessary harm or suffering. Ensure subjects of written and visual content have given express permission for the content to be shared. Remove names (or provide aliases) and remove identifying information if risks exist.

• Accountability: Be transparent about the journalistic process, acknowledge and correct errors, and be responsive to feedback from readers and contributors.

• Independence: Maintain our editorial autonomy, resisting outside influences or pressures that could compromise any of the other principles. This also refers to our desire to prioritize content that aligns with our Mission to promote and advance peace leadership, and to bridge the gap between theory and practice.