When you make peace part of your journey, you change yourself and change those you encounter. Here are some ways you can live your peace and influence other to join you and be advocates 4-Peace.

Peace Through
Travel

Travel is the Language of Peace

Weather you are home planning to travel, out on the road traveling, or back from your trip and reflecting on your Journey, travel will expand your worldviews, It challenges your preconceptions, and it will creates lasting connections with those you interact with.

When you travel you create an impact on your life and those you meet.

As a traveler you are potential advocate for Peace.

Ways To Pass It On

  • Share peace stories from your travels

  • Use your photos to help share your travel experiences

  • Back home organize an on campus or virtual 4-Peace travel club with others who travel.

Ways to Live Peace through Travel

  1. Visit with an open mind. Reflect on where you are going and what you are seeing.

  2. Smile often and look people in the eye. Introduce yourself to people you meet when traveling.

  3. Listen to what others have to say, ask questions to learn more about them and their perfective.

  4. Use respectful language when speaking with others
    recognize they may have a different outlook on things.

Peace Through
Music

Music is a universal language that connects people emotionally and culturally. It provides a platform for expressing peace messages and bringing diverse groups together in harmony.

Ways to Live Peace through Music

  1. Research and save peace-themed music

  2. Learn songs from different Countries or Cultures

  3. Collaborate and preform with musicians from different backgrounds

  4. Organize a peace concert at school or in your community

Youth Peace Champions

  • Daniel Barenboim's West-Eastern Divan Orchestra: Young musicians from Israel, Palestine, and other Middle Eastern countries performing together

  • Rizwan and Muazzam Ali Khan: Young Pakistani musicians collaborating with Western artists to promote cultural understanding

  • The "Playing For Change" youth ambassadors: Young musicians worldwide connecting through shared performances

Peace Through
The Arts

Creative expression transcends language barriers and speaks directly to the heart. Visual arts, theater, and photography provide powerful tools for expressing peace messages and documenting human connections. They help people see the world through others' eyes. Through creative activities, you can express peace-building messages in ways that words alone cannot achieve.

Ways To Pass It On

  • Organize multicultural visual art shows at school or in your community

  • Create a peace mural

  • Organize peace-themed art exhibitions

  • Lead art workshops for diverse groups

  • Create collaborative art peace projects

  • Use photography to document peace stories

  • Perform plays about a peace subject

Youth Peace Champions

Peace Thru
Leadership

Youth leadership programs develop skills essential for peacebuilding: communication, organization, empathy, and the ability to unite diverse groups toward common goals.

Ways To Pass It On

  • Start a peace club at school or within your social network

  • Organize youth peace conferences

  • Lead community service projects

  • Create cross-cultural leadership teams

  • Develop peer mediation programs

  • Organize debates on peace topics

  • Start international environmental clubs

  • Organize community clean-ups

  • Share leadership success stories with the Peace Pass it On network

Youth Peace Champions

  • Greta Thunberg: Started climate strikes at 15, demonstrating youth leadership for global issues

  • William Kamkwamba: Built wind turbines in his village at age 14, inspiring other young innovators

  • Kehkashan Basu: Founded Green Hope Foundation at age 12, bringing together youth for environmental peace