Build Peace Conference
Build Peace 2026 will take place from November 13-15, in Waterloo, Canada, co-organized with the Kindred Centre for Peace Advancement.
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 it is co-organized with the Kindred Credit Union Centre for Peace Advancement at Conrad Grebel University College and the University of Waterloo, with the support of the Balsillie School of International Affairs and the Global Centre for Pluralism.
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.
- Register now to attend the conference
- 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.