Play for Peace®

Play for Peace® We bring together children, youth, and organizations from communities in conflict zones 🌍🌻 Every community can create and sustain peace.

Play for Peace is a community of people who are, right now, creating a more peaceful world. In fact, one of the most exciting things about Play for Peace is that at any time of day or night Play for Peace is happening somewhere in the world. Children, youth and adults, even in communities in conflict, are deciding to choose compassion and practice peace, and they are learning to do this through th

e joy of play. Few things can provide a common link between people like laughter and play. Through cooperative play, we have a universal and non-threatening platform around which people can come together and learn. Play creates a gateway to moments when differences dissolve, fear melts away, and we see what connects us rather than what divides us. At Play for Peace we believe;

Everyone can be an architect, builder and leader for peace. Play is one of the most innovative catalysts for peace in the world today. If Play for Peace is happening around the world it is either through one of our two action programs; Play for Peace Training or Practice Peace Session and supported by our membership programs which includes our; Certified Trainers Program, Play for Peace Club and Mentors Program and our Partner for Peace Program. Together these programs encourage people to shift from a place of isolation, fear and violence to a place of inspiration, collaboration and connection. Entire communities begin to unlearn previously held biases and take action together. It is the playful action that inspires people from different cultures to reach across barriers and boundaries. In the realm of play, pure creativity exists and transformation occurs. From this place of transformation, communities have the foundation to generate new avenues for building peace.

When you picture a brave person, what are they doing? And where did that picture come from?For most of us, the picture l...
06/04/2026

When you picture a brave person, what are they doing? And where did that picture come from?

For most of us, the picture looks loud. Decisive. Certain. Someone acting quickly and without hesitation.

That picture is not wrong. It has held people together in hard moments. And it may be missing something.

What if the brave choices can also come from somewhere quieter? A body that feels safe. A mind that can finally look clearly. A decision that is genuinely yours.

Play for Peace® has been watching this happen in children for twenty-five years. Across dozens of countries. In cooperative play circles, nobody loses, and nobody is left out.

Swipe through, then share it with one person who is thinking carefully about what courage actually requires.

We need brave. What is yours?

06/02/2026

She used to be the person in the back of the room. Now she's changing lives. 🕊️

We stand behind children who are doing something extraordinary, making brave choices every single day, in places shaped ...
05/31/2026

We stand behind children who are doing something extraordinary, making brave choices every single day, in places shaped by conflict, fear, and uncertainty.

They need someone behind them.

That is what your gift does.

We need brave. What is yours?

👇 Tell us in the comments.

Stand behind a brave kid today.

Visit playforpeace.org/donate to know more and support our campaign.

We stand behind children who are doing something extraordinary, making brave choices every single day, in places shaped ...
05/31/2026

We stand behind children who are doing something extraordinary, making brave choices every single day, in places shaped by conflict, fear, and uncertainty.

They need someone behind them.

That is what your gift does.

We need brave. What is yours?

👇 Tell us in the comments.

Stand behind a brave kid → playforpeace.org/donate

Hip hop has always been about turning struggle into community.So has Play for Peace®. In Barcelona last month, those two...
05/29/2026

Hip hop has always been about turning struggle into community.

So has Play for Peace®. In Barcelona last month, those two movements finally found each other.

Play for Peace® Certified Trainer Chaun PridGeon was invited to present cooperative play at the 1st Hip Hop Works International Meeting, a gathering of educators, professors, and youth workers from Chicago, the Dominican Republic, the UK, and across Spain.

He led the room through Play for Peace® activities, and the people who had spent three days talking about peace started actually experiencing it.

Read the full story here:
https://playforpeace.org/stories

05/27/2026

A nervous system in constant alert cannot feel. Cannot choose. Cannot rest.

On Memorial Day, we honor those lost to conflict.And we sit with a question that has shaped everything Play for Peace® d...
05/25/2026

On Memorial Day, we honor those lost to conflict.

And we sit with a question that has shaped everything Play for Peace® does: what comes before?

Before the breaking point, there are almost always children who have never learned to feel safe. Whose bodies stayed in alarm. Who grew up in conditions where the nervous system never had a chance to settle and where a different kind of choice, a grounded one, never became available.

There is so much necessary work that happens in the wake of conflict. The people doing it are doing something essential and something hard. We are grateful for them.

Play for Peace® works one step earlier. In classrooms, refugee camps, and communities that are carrying the conditions for conflict without having broken out yet. Through cooperative games where no one loses, and no one is left out. Where a child's body can, sometimes, finally relax into curiosity, care, and compassion.

That is not a small thing.

Today we remember. And we recommit to working in the space before.

When most of us picture peacebuilding, we picture diplomacy. Treaties. Important people in important rooms doing importa...
05/23/2026

When most of us picture peacebuilding, we picture diplomacy. Treaties. Important people in important rooms doing important things.

We want to show you a different picture.

It is a circle of children. A cooperative game. Nobody loses. Nobody is left out. Every single person is treated as an equal.

That is not a simplified version of peacebuilding. That is the real thing, rooted in 27 years of neuroscience, field work, and lived experience across 22 countries.

Swipe through. Then share this with one person who needs to see a different definition of what peace actually looks like and how it can be built.

We need brave. What is yours?

What happens when theatre begins with play?Join us for our next Traditions Transformed session with Aanand Chabukswar, F...
05/21/2026

What happens when theatre begins with play?

Join us for our next Traditions Transformed session with Aanand Chabukswar, Founding Director of the Applied Theatre School, India, as we explore how cooperative play and theatre come together to spark creativity, deepen connection, and build shared understanding.

Through interactive theatre-based activities transformed through a play-rooted approach, participants will experience how play can unlock expression, trust, empathy, and joyful collaboration within communities.

✨ Come ready to move, imagine, and create together.

📅 Tuesday, May 27, 2026
🕒 7:30 PM IST | 10:00 AM ET | 2:00 PM GMT
💻 Live on Zoom

05/19/2026

The definition we grew up with has been shaping the world for generations.

We think it is time for a different one.

Watch this. Then tell us:

What does brave mean to you?

👇 Drop it in the comments.

Visit playforpeace.org to learn more!

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