10thApril2026

Scottish Peace Platform World Café Networking Day

A day for networking and sharing for Scotland’s peacebuilding sector.

The ‘World Cafe’ event brings together those working in Scotland’s peacebuilding sector for networking, sharing, and reflection. The event will also highlight activities run by and in partnership with the SPP in its first 6 months of establishment, and share plans and opportunities to work with the SPP in the future.

The ‘World Cafe’ format brings together facilitated, small-group discussions that encourage open conversation, sharing of ideas, and collective reflection through several short rounds of exchange around focused questions. Members and partners are invited to share information about their work through short presentations, table discussions, or a poster/ stall – to get involved please get in touch with us through the ‘contact event organiser’ link below.

Registration is for in-person attendance only as we are unable to offer this event in a hybrid format.

If you have any queries regarding this event please get in touch with Peace Platform Manager Noor al Naser, nalnaser@beyondbordersscotland.com and Projects Officer Shona McCallum smccallum@beyondbordersscotland.com

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Organised by: Scottish Peace Platform
Friday 10th April 2026
10:00 am - 2:00 pm
McClaren Stuart Room, Old College, Edinburgh University

28thMarch2026

Educators for Peace/SPP Conference

Educators for Peace, in partnership with the Scottish Peace Platform, invite you to join us for a conference entitled ‘Rebuilding Gaza: The role of the education sector.’

The conference will take place on Saturday 28th March 2026 from 9:30am4:00pm in Edinburgh. The exact venue will be confirmed in due course.

The event will bring Palestinian officials, educators and initiative leaders together with their Scottish counterparts – officials, educators, education stakeholders, aid agencies and international development organisations.

The core conference objectives are to:

1. Highlight the impact of the mass atrocities on Gaza’s educational sector.

2. Promote knowledge exchange between Palestinian and Scottish educators, researchers, and NGOs working in education, development, aid and peacebuilding.

3. Establish partnerships between universities and schools in Gaza and educational institutions in Scotland.

4. Explore practical ways Scottish institutions and organisations can support rebuilding efforts.

5. Build solidarity networks and amplify the voices of Gaza’s educators and students internationally.

We hope you will join us for this vital event of active Scottish solidarity with Palestinian educators.

Email hello@educatorsforpeace.co.uk if you would like to register!

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Organised by: Educators for Peace & The Scottish Peace Platform
Saturday 28th March 2026
9:30 am - 4:00 pm
TBC

25thMarch2026

Webinar: Peace Education Workshop

A webinar on peace education and approaching power in peace work.

Join peace educator and founder of The Peace Collective Mansi Panjwani for an interactive workshop on peace education and approaching power in peace work with the Scottish Peace Platform.

Power shapes every effort to build peace — from whose voices are heard, to who makes decisions, to whose experiences count. Yet power is rarely examined openly in peace work.

This interactive workshop offers a space to reflect on how power operates in our work and how we can move toward forms of power that enable collaboration, agency, and collective change. Drawing on widely used frameworks in feminist leadership and peace education, the session will introduce a simple but powerful lens for understanding power. Through guided reflection and dialogue, participants will have the opportunity to examine how power shows up in their own work and consider how shifts in power can create more inclusive and empowering approaches to peacebuilding.

This is a participatory workshop, not a lecture. The session will include:

  • short conceptual inputs
  • individual reflection
  • small-group dialogue
  • shared learning across participants

Mansi is a peace educator, founder of The Peace Collective, and alumna of the Beyond Borders Scotland ‘Women in Conflict 1325 Fellowship’. This is the first in ongoing webinars highlighting the expertise of the Fellowship alumna.

This workshop is designed specially for Scottish Peace Platform members, especially working as practitioners or educators. Non-members are also welcome to attend. It will be facilitated by the Scottish Peace Platform team.

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Wednesday 25th March 2026
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Online (via Zoom)

25thFebruary2026

Webinar: Peacebuilding, healing, and reconciliation in the DRC and Rwanda

Throughout recent and complex armed conflict in both the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda, peacebuilders have been working for healing and reconciliation. The Scottish Peace Platform welcomes an expert panel to share their experiences and compare their contexts.

Hear from Ndahigwa Paul from the Pilgrim Center for Reconciliation Rwanda, Kayumba Ben, survivor of the 1994 Rwanda genocide and director of Good News International, Yvette Furaha and Prosperine Tumaini who are working on the ground in the DRC, and Dieudonné Mugongo from Comfort Congo.

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Wednesday 25th February 2026
9:00 am - 10:30 am
Online (via Zoom)

25thNovember2025

Reflections on Conflict and Peacebuilding with Andrei Gomez-Suarez

Join us on 25th November in Glasgow for an evening of ‘Reflections on Conflict and Peacebuilding with Andrei Gomez-Suarez’, marking 9 years of the Colombian Peace Process! (Registration on Eventbrite)

At the event organised with the Glasgow Latin American Research Network (GLARN), Andrei will share reflections from his insightful new memoir, ‘We Are Not Made From Sugar’ in conversation with Juliana Ramirez Munoz from the University of Edinburgh. Interweaving family history and the trajectory of conflict, together they will explore opportunities and challenges for peace in Colombia. 

The event will be chaired by Scottish Peace Platform Manager, Noor al-Naser and include a performance by academic and musician Magda Angélica García von Hoegen of Rafael Landívar University, Guatemala, currently a visiting scholar at the School of Education, University of Glasgow. 

It will be followed by a drinks reception.

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Tuesday 25th November 2025
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Room 916, 42 Bute Gardens, University of Glasgow, G12 8RT

29thOctober2025

SPP Annual General Meeting

The first SPP Annual General Meeting is a chance for registered members to review the draft Terms of Reference for the Platform, oversee the election of the first Advisory Board, and discuss SPP priorities and activities for its first 6 months.

The SPP team will be organising this event and look forward to meeting new members and seeing those who have attended our inception period events!

Please register at the link below and get in touch if you need any information.

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Organised by: Scottish Peace Platform
Wednesday 29th October 2025
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Geddes Room, Riddles Court, Edinburgh, EH2 2PG

25thSeptember2025

SPP Launch Webinar

SPP Launch Webinar

The SPP launch webinar will provide an overview of the Platform’s inception period, a tour of the new digital platform, and an explanation of membership categories and governance structure ahead of the first SPP annual general meeting (AGM.) This event is open to any interested parties and there will be a chance to ask questions. 

Please register at the link below.

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Organised by: Scottish Peace Platform
Thursday 25th September 2025
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Online

19thAugust2025

Inception Workshop

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Join us for an open inception workshop on the Scottish Peace Platform (SPP) on 19th August from 10am-5pm at the Lister Learning and Teaching Centre in central Edinburgh!

The event will be a chance for our teams at Beyond Borders Scotland and University of Edinburgh Law School to give updates on the inception phase of the SPP project, as well as a valuable opportunity for us to hear from the organisations and individuals working on peace in Scotland about their needs and expectations.

To confirm your attendance please register on this link by 14th August 2025: https://lnkd.in/ekmwzBQx

Please note, due to limited catering and venue capacity we ask organisations to limit capacity to one or maximum two participants. We have a limited fund for reimbursement of travel within Scotland, with more information on the registration form.

 

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Tuesday 19th August 2025
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Lister Learning and Teaching Centre, University of Edinburgh

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