THE PEACE ENTREPRENEURS PROGRAM
From Ideas To Action
Developed by the Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, the Peace Entrepreneurs Program extends the work of the Youth Summit—transforming learning into action. Through mentorship, online training, and continued collaboration, participants develop and implement projects that advance peace in their own communities.
Core Approach
We offer a range of solutions designed to meet your needs—whether you're just getting started or scaling somethBlends peacebuilding and entrepreneurship
for lasting impact.
Equips participants to create community-driven enterprises that reduce conflict and foster social cohesion.
Provides access to mentors, toolkits, and funding pathways to sustain their work.
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is tailored to help you move forward with clarity and confidence.
A Call To Action
A network of peace entrepreneurs capable of working across sectors — from environmental sustainability and education to economic justice and public health—creating long-term systems change from the ground up.
By elevating the bold and innovative leaders of the next generation, this project becomes a powerful call to action. It emphasizes that peace is not a distant dream, but an urgent, achievable reality—one that rests on the foundations of empathy, collaboration, and shared responsibility.
The Podcast & Documentary
A companion podcast series and documentary film that chronicle the creation of Architects of Peace: The Next Generation will be produced, with much of the storytelling captured during the inaugural Youth Peace Leaders Summit.
Through intimate interviews and observational storytelling, the series features both established peacemakers and emerging peace architects, exploring the personal journeys, cultural lineages, challenges, and lived experiences that shape their work.
Together, the podcast and film move beyond theory to reveal how peace is practiced in real time, offering an honest, human portrait of leadership, resilience, and the visions guiding the next generation toward a more just and peaceful world.
THE SUSTAINABLE IMPACT OF ARCHITECTS OF PEACE
IDENTIFY young peacebuilders from around the world, inviting them to join a network through which they brainstorm and share ideas with each other while connecting to global peacebuilding resources.
EMPOWER hundreds of young peacebuilders to take advantage of the tools and resources provided by the Architects of Peace network to begin developing effective and sustainable peace projects.
ENABLE 125 of those young peacebuilders to come together in the spring of 2027 at Fort Worden to design, refine, map out and strengthen their ideas for entrepreneurial peacebuilding projects.
PROMOTE the implementation of hundreds of peacebuilding projects through ongoing mentorship and support.
BUILD a sustainable global network of thousands of peace entrepreneurs, mentors, and educators thatwill evolve into an effective community of peacebuilding practice.