Build Peace Conference
Build Peace 2026 will take place from November 13-15, in Waterloo, Canada co-organized with the University of Waterloo.
Every year, the Build Peace conference explores emergent challenges to peace in a digital era, and peacebuilding innovations to address these challenges. It holds an interdisciplinary space to address the most pressing topics and transformative practices in peace, conflict and innovation.
This year, the conference theme is “Enabling Encounters“, and our co-organizers are the University of Waterloo. Whether it is your first, fifth or tenth time attending, we warmly invite you to bring your questions, ideas and experiences as we chart the future together.
- Apply now! – The Build Peace 2026 Call for Proposals is now open to present short talks, workshops and art installations at the conference. We look forward to receiving your applications!
- Coming June 2026 – Conference Registration.
- Explore the conference theme and subthemes and get excited for what is certain to be an amazing edition.
- Support the conference! We are seeking partners and sponsors to help us bring Build Peace 2026 to Waterloo. Contact us for further details and options at buildpeace@howtobuildup.org
Build Peace Archives
2026 marks the 13th annual Build Peace conference. We work hard to extensively document the conference every year. We invite you to dig into our conference archives, or go straight to our video library and explore some of the 200+ recorded talks from past years of Build Peace.