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Peace & Impact Talk: heart-warming get-together on peacebuilding & book launch

28-05-2021 At 12:00 CET we introduced to the world our book ‘Become a Peacebuilder and Impact Leader, a practical guide’, published by Futuro Publishers in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.



The event was kicked off by Jessica Lockhart from the International Institute of Humanology in Switzerland. She called on all people in the audience to look inside themselves. When you can develop Inner Peace yourself it becomes so much easier to share peace with others. Although this sounds obvious, have you ever asked ourselves what gives you peace? Jessica gave us all an exercise to check if we do, ask ourselves what gives you a peaceful feeling. And do the opposite of limiting yourself, expand on it and find as many things as possible the give you a peaceful feeling to optimize the change you can feel that at least once a day…. then you’re making a good start on developing inner peace.

After speakers Noor Zia (Pakistan), Alinis Aranguren (Venezuela), Sharon Chileshe (Zambia), and poet Hidayet Ceylan (Australia), who all shared their work on peacebuilding and their experience with our Train-the-Trainer on peacebuilding and impact leadership, it was time to present our book to the world.

Presentation 'Become a Peacebuilder and Impact Leader, a practical guide'

Author Saskia Harkema shared her dream with the audience; to bring about a grassroots wave of people contributing to peace, creating peace as part of their daily life. Since war is a business, we should invest in Peace as a business. We shouldn’t leave peacebuilding to politicians and NGO’s it can and shall be part of everything we do. At ImpactLeaders international, we’re training and coaching the new kind of peacebuilders with an entrepreneurial approach; developing the Value Proposition for Peace. Our Peacebuilders and Impact Leaders are the pioneers of the Economy of Peace to counterbalance the Economy of War that is nowadays prevalent.

After the presentation of the book ‘Become a Peacebuilder and Impact Leader, a practical guide’ Jessica Lockhart invited the panelists to share their thoughts on ‘How to create an Economy of Peace’. Mireille Toulekima, Amir Sabirovic, Basili Mvungi shared their visions based on varying perspectives and different experiences. But all pointing in the same direction, that whoever you are, whatever we’re responsible for, we should all seek to develop, integrate and contribute to a culture of Peace with everything we think and do.

Closing  by founders ImpactLeaders international

The closing remarks were for all founders of ImpactLeaders international. Carin Beijer, Pim de Bokx, Saadet Ozdemir, Fisayo Olajide and Saskia Harkema. They shared their gratitude with the speakers, panelists, and audience for celebrating his moment with them. Publishing the book was a dream 1 year ago and is now a reality, see what can happen if we all start to dream about peace and we make that actionable! Join us in our quest to make this happen, creating a huge sustainable impact by building the Economy of Peace.

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