Global Humanity for Peace Institute
Global Humanity for Peace Institute
The Global Humanity for Peace (GHfP) Institute was jointly launched by the University of Wales Trinity Saint David (UWTSD) and the Guerrand-Hermès Foundation for Peace. It is located in the UWTSD’s Lampeter Campus, supported by global partners. The Institute carries forward a number of major international research programmes previously developed at the Guerrand-Hermès Foundation for Peace, and is embedded in an excellent research and teaching environment and learning community of the UWTSD.
Global Humanity for Peace Institute
The Global Humanity for Peace Institute seeks to engage in cutting-edge research aimed at new understandings, innovation, policy change, and social transformation.
The Institute focuses on the following:
- Fostering collective healing(including healing the wounds from past atrocities and the wounds of our planet), enriching community regeneration, and advancing social justice and global solidarity.
- Empowering youth leadership, nurturing youth transformative competencies and providing professional development opportunities to facilitators of collective healing and community regeneration.
- Harmonising holistic human well-being with our planet’s flourishing.
- Supporting the development of governance processes that are values-based, dialogue-centred, and well-being sensitive.
- Encouraging educational transformation and inspiring a culture of caring in educational institutions.
- Creating spaces for deep encounter, deep listening, and deep dialogue for engendering peacefulness and greater harmony amongst all that is.
All these activities are carried out in partnership with the UNESCO Routes of Enslaved Peoples Project and aligned with UNESCO’s priorities and objectives.
We will offer master’s and doctoral courses and professional programmes in collective healing, health and well-being, social justice, conflict transformation, deep dialogue, positive peace, human-centred education, and community regeneration.
UNESCO and Research
The GHfP Institute facilitates and coordinates the UNESCO Collective Healing Initiative, in partnership with the UNESCO Routes of Enslaved Peoples Project.
Inspired by UNESCO’s medium-term (2022-2029) priorities (e.g. Africa, gender equality, and youth empowerment), and committed to the UN Decade of People of African Descent (2015-2024), the overarching aims of the Collective Healing Initiative are:
- to break the silence about historical brutality of slavery, colonialism, genocide and continued structural violence
- to confront socio-economic deprivation, exclusion, and vulnerability
- to challenge gender inequality, social injustice, and structural racism
- to address intergenerational trauma and ill-being
- to advance politics of dignity towards social transformation
These objectives draw on updated knowledge of the interconnection between collective healing, social justice and global well-being. Ongoing research highlights that collective healing can contribute to “de-racialising” our vision and “decolonising” our conception of humanity. It does so by deconstructing racist discourses and ideology, recognising and addressing the harms of slavery’s legacies, transcending the antagonism of ‘us-vs-them’ mentalities, and co-envisaging a common future for all. More importantly, it can help communities (re)discover the gifts of (indigenous) knowledge, wisdom and practices, and enrich our collective resilience, well-being and co-flourishing with nature.
The GHfP Institute is part of a vibrant research community at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David (UWTSD).
The Institute is committed to engaging in high-quality and innovative research on various cross-cutting issues, building on its diverse postgraduate and doctoral programmes, partnership initiatives, and Professors of Practice’s expertise.
The Institute’s Research Team is made up of interdisciplinary researchers, visiting fellows, research associates and research assistants are keen to take part in ongoing dialogue and explorations through regular webinars, symposia, conferences, and other events. Our research has been focusing on four major domains, including and Collective Healing, Well-Being, Governance, Positive Peace and Human-Centred Education.