Peace Education & Practice Network (PEPNET) is a registered non-governmental, nonpartisan, and nonreligious (secular and interfaith) organisation (CAC No. 156980), founded in 2018 to creatively teach peace for development. With a vision of building peaceful individuals and inclusive communities, PEPNET advances peace education, capacity building, advocacy, and innovative practice.
Partner with us to advance peace education, strengthen communities, and create lasting social impact. Together, we can design and implement innovative programmes, share expertise, mobilise resources, and build sustainable solutions that promote peace, development, and human flourishing.
Your donation helps us advance peace education, youth leadership, community resilience, and social transformation. By supporting our work, you enable impactful programmes, capacity-building initiatives, and opportunities that foster more peaceful, inclusive, and resilient communities.
Partner with us to advance peace education, strengthen communities, and create lasting social impact. Together, we can design and implement innovative programmes, share expertise, mobilise resources, and build sustainable solutions that promote peace, development, and human flourishing.
Millions of young people and communities across Africa still grow up without practical access to peace education, dialogue competencies, conflict transformation skills, and healthy systems for civic engagement.
At the same time, societies are increasingly facing:
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PEPNET’s Programmes and Platforms represent interconnected pathways within a growing peace education and social transformation ecosystem designed to strengthen peaceful coexistence, civic responsibility, ethical leadership, institutional learning, community resilience, and sustainable social change across schools, communities, institutions, governance spaces, and digital environments.
The Peace Education for Schools Platform advances practical peace learning within educational environments by equipping students, teachers, schools, and learning communities with the knowledge, values, competencies, and behavioural tools required for peaceful coexistence, civic responsibility, and social transformation.
PEPNET Peace Academy is the education, training, and professional development platform of the Peace Education and Practice Network (PEPNET). The Academy is designed to strengthen knowledge, skills, leadership, and practical capacities in peacebuilding, conflict transformation, governance, human security, sustainable development, and social change.
PEPNET’s Community Engagement Platform strengthens grassroots participation, dialogue culture, civic awareness, local peace actions, and community resilience through practical and people-centred engagement processes. The platform promotes peacebuilding as a collective social responsibility rooted in communities, relationships, participation, and shared values rather than as a purely institutional or elite process.
PEPNET’s Capacity Building Platform advances practical learning, institutional strengthening, facilitation development, leadership education, and applied peacebuilding competencies.
The platform focuses on translating peace education into practical implementation by strengthening the capacities of educators, facilitators, institutions, youth leaders, community actors, and development practitioners.
PEPNET’s Narrative and Media Platform uses storytelling, dialogue, media engagement, strategic communication, and public education to amplify constructive narratives, civic awareness, peacebuilding conversations, and responsible public discourse.
The platform recognises communication and media as critical tools for shaping public perception, influencing behaviour, strengthening social cohesion, and advancing preventive peacebuilding.
Whether you are interested in partnering with PEPNET, supporting our initiatives, requesting training, or learning more about our programs, our team is ready to connect with you.
Reach out to us and let’s explore how we can work together to strengthen peace education systems and create lasting impact.
The GACE Dialogue brings together peace educators, practitioners, researchers, students, and development professionals to discuss emerging issues in peace education, conflict transformation, and peacebuilding practice
The official launch of PEPNET’s flagship leadership development initiative for Full Members and emerging peace leaders.
PEPNET’s annual conference and anniversary celebration bringing together stakeholders from across Africa and beyond for dialogue, learning, networking, and collaboration.
PETMANUAL (Peace Education Training Manual) is a practical and comprehensive resource developed to support the teaching, learning, and promotion of peace education.
₦17,000.00
A Literature Book for Peace* is a unique collection of literary works, including poetry, prose, drama, and reflective writings, designed to inspire peace, dialogue, empathy, and social responsibility.
₦17,000.00
The PESS Handbook is a learner-centred companion resource designed to support students participating in the Peace Education for Secondary Schools Programme.
₦15,000.00
Hear from individuals, educators, partners, and communities whose experiences reflect the impact of PEPNET’s peace education initiatives.
The following opportunities may be of interest to peacebuilders, educators, youth leaders, development practitioners, social innovators, and emerging changemakers seeking to expand their impact, leadership, and professional networks.
The Social Innovators Programme (SIP) is one of Africa’s leading leadership and capacity-building programmes for social entrepreneurs and changemakers. The programme supports individuals and organisations developing innovative solutions to social challenges through mentorship, training, networking, visibility, and institutional strengthening. Participants gain access to a community of social innovators across Africa while strengthening their leadership and […]
The ICMM Young Leaders Scholarship supports emerging leaders working to create positive social, environmental, and community impact. Successful applicants receive a fully funded opportunity to attend the One Young World Summit 2026 and connect with a global network of young leaders, policymakers, business leaders, and development practitioners. The scholarship is particularly suitable for individuals working […]
The Pankaj Award to End Conflict, supported by Regent Global and One Young World, seeks to identify and support outstanding young leaders working to prevent conflict, promote peace, and strengthen social cohesion in their communities and countries. Ten finalists will receive funding ranging from $10,000 to $100,000 to scale their peacebuilding initiatives and a fully […]
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Peace education has the power to transform individuals, strengthen communities, and create lasting social change. At PEPNET, we are committed to building practical peace education systems that equip people with the knowledge, skills, and values needed to prevent conflict and promote social cohesion.
Whether you are an educator, institution, development partner, volunteer, donor, or community leader, there is a place for you in this movement.
Together, we can build stronger communities and a more peaceful society through education, dialogue, and collaboration
