Creating in a World on Fire: Art, Imagination, and Peacebuilding

We're living through a time of deep rupture. Conflicts are multiplying, institutions are under strain, and polarisation is growing. How do we create when everything feels like it's breaking apart? What is the role of arts and the creative process?

As scholar John Paul Lederach has written, peacebuilding is not merely technical—it is imaginative, human, and deeply creative. Lederach argues that lasting peace requires what he calls the "moral imagination": the capacity to imagine a shared future even in the midst of violence and division and to build relationships across the very lines that divide us. Geneva, a global hub for peace, is uniquely placed to explore this question. 

Initiatives like Caux Arts and Peace Encounters and Geneva Peace Forum point to a growing recognition that artistic process belongs at the heart of building peace, not on its periphery. Join us for a live conversation with two guests working at this intersection, exploring what it actually means to keep creating—and connecting—in a fractured world. Recorded in front of an intimate audience, the conversation will later be shared more widely as an episode of the Hummingbird Collective, a podcast exploring how people find the courage to create and rebuild in a world on fire, co-produced by the Caux Foundation.

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