Global Peace Hut

Global Peace Hut is a Canadian NGO that runs conflict resolution and peacemaking programs in Uganda, East Africa. through their local indigenous affiliate NGO Global Peace Hut-Uganda. GPH-U has a team of Ugandan peacemaking trainers who as young adults, work with students, teachers, schools, families and communities. They teach the ways of being a peacemaker in local language through folk stories, and storytelling, through puppetry, drama, games, art and music, activities, as well as circle sharings. Africa has a strong heritage of traditional wisdom around peacemaking and conflict resolution. They access the wisdom and spirit of Africa through connecting to these traditional ways and talking about them in the current context.

The schools and communities in which Global Peace Hut works have many families and orphans who have been displaced from their own communities as a result of a war in the north of the country that has lasted for 20 years. These children and youth do not know what it is like to live in peace, and extreme poverty and violence are part of their daily existence. They have experienced a great deal of trauma and continue to live with much violence in their lives. For healing to take place they need to feel safe to tell their own stories and have others who care listen to them.
 

Our Vision is living peace.

Our Mission is to provide people with the tools to live in peace, connected to each other in community and globally.

We foster learning of the ways of peacemaking and peacebuilding in children, families, schools and communities through education and skill
development.

We create simple spaces and places, virtual or structural, where conversations contributing to living in peace can be held; where all voices can be heard and everyone is welcome.

Click here for more information about our work.
 

ON PEACE - In Their Own Words

Our peacemaking training team has taught conflict resolution/ peacemaking work in more than 18 schools. We asked a small group of children aged 9-12 years, from some of these schools, "What is peace?"  You can read some of their answers at the top of every page under the heading Global Peace Hut. (Quotes used with permission.)