Build Peace 2024

Build Peace 2024 was the 11th Build Peace conference, kicking off a new decade of this annual event. The conference took place in Antipolo, the Philippines, from November 14-16. The theme was “Pushing Frontiers, from the Ground Up“.

Build Peace 2024 gathered over 200 practitioners, researchers, artists, technologists and activists from around the world to explore issues at the intersection of climate change, technology and peace and conflict. The conference theme was a reflection of the importance of grassroots perspectives to frontier issues in peacebuilding and conflict in Asia. In a world of uncertainty and fractured societies,  we wanted to explore collective action approaches to peacebuilding – looking at ways in which people contribute from the bottom up to each of these frontiers, which we represented as three different subthemes:

Conflict-aware technology design: how can technology design respond to an understanding of the impact technologies have on conflict? What actors can influence technology design, and how? What might a collective action campaign for conflict-aware design of technology look like?

New spaces of mediation: how can global and local mediation practices adapt to address pressing conflict dynamics connected to technology, climate adaptation, and border / territorial contestation? In these news spaces of mediation, how should we navigate between nationally owned processes, changing regional dynamics, and international norms?

Climate, conflict and adaptation: how are peacebuilders engaging with climate change – as a conflict driver, and as an area requiring adaptations in our field? What are the linkages between climate adaptation technologies and peacebuilding technologies?

All recorded conference presentations can be watched on our YouTube playlist, and the full conference program is available here.

Build Peace 2024 was brought to you by Build Up and Climate Conflict Action, and made possible thanks to the generous support of our sponsors.