What is “Design for Peace”? “Design for Peace” Global Peace Initiative is a joint initiative of UNESCO and the Nanjing Peace Forum Organizing Committee. It involves governments, corporates from private sector, research institutions, media, and practitioners from civil society to select outstanding and creative solutions for peacebuilding. The initiative aims to raise awareness and promote understanding of peace among different parts of the world and to inspire institutions, groups, and individuals regardless of age, gender, ethnicities, and capacity to submit creative solutions based on the concept of “Design for Peace”. The initiative is the call for all, especially Generation Z, to take action jointly facing and addressing global peace challenges. Therefore, we can build a more sustainable, just, and harmonious world.
The initiative establishes a Peace Impact Fund to support peace practitioners and model projects worldwide tackling social problems and promoting regional development. It provides participants with capacity-building support through expert reviews, debate competitions, workshops, seminars, project roadshows, and other activities.
The initiative was launched during the 2nd Nanjing Peace Forum in 2021 with a focus on the core theme of “Living in Harmony with Nature for Peace”, with different sub-themes open for innovative and feasible solutions incorporating the ecological perspective. The initiative will run until the end of May 2023 with review.
The application can be submitted from 1 August 2022 to 31 May 2023
Read the Participation Manual; Write the Action Plan; Submit the Action Plan;
Review of Action Plans by Committee from 1 June to Mid-July 2023
Action plan review
Nanjing Peace Forum in Mid-Sep 2023
Announcement of Shortlisted Projects;Awarding and Display at the Nanjing Peace Forum
At the beginning of 2020, while taking a heavy toll on society and the economy, the breakout of COVID-19 led us to rethink the relationship between human and nature. Environmental challenges around the globe requires more collaboration, creativity, and actions.
According to incomplete statistics, there are about 1,200 city zoos around the globe and more than half of them facing business difficulties due to the pandemic. It is imperative to improve the environment and welfare of animals and foster the concept of ecological consumption. As a forerunner in animal protection and environmental education in China, Nanjing Hongshan Forest Zoo adhered to the respect and kindness to animal lives during the pandemic period. It aroused the awareness of social responsibility, and reflected the thinking and position of “Living in Harmony with Nature for Peace”.
The business plight of city zoos cannot be broken by merely counting on one stakeholder or several. Still, the government, universities, enterprises, international organizations, social groups, research institutes, media, and other sectors of society need to be encouraged to work together and create changes beyond the limitations of disciplines, fields, identities, and institutional interests.
Content Requirements: Fill in the application information and submit the action plan via the “Design for Peace” application channel of the Nanjing Peace Forum. The action plan needs to be completed online. Before that, please register an account on the Nanjing Peace Website (nanjingpeaceforum.com). Participants should fill out the Online Application Form according to the requirements. The entries comprises Action Acceleration and Seed Action and Creation pathways, the participants can choose one of the pathways to submit applications depending on the stage of peace actions. The Action Acceleration pathway targets relatively experienced practitioners and calls for action plans at scaling up stages while the Seed Action and Creation pathway targets actions at initial or conceptual stage.
Completeness: The dimension examines to what extent your proposal responds to all questions in the proposal template.
Relevance: The dimension examines to what extent your proposal is relevant to peace themes.
Effectiveness and social impact: The dimension examines to what extent your proposal can show an impact upon the targeted beneficiaries.
Feasibility and transferability: The dimension examines to what extent your proposal can be implemented and its applicability to similar challenges in different contexts.
Innovativeness: The dimension concerns the originality of the action plan and to what extent you can think out of the box and adopt innovational/unconventional methods to tackle challenges.
Sustainability: The dimension examines to what extent your actions can continue beyond a certain period of implementation.
The “Design for Peace” encourages participants of all ages to take part in the campaign with actions that match their cognitive, social-emotional, and capacity (no age limit). The Global Peace Initiative is open to any individual, group, or institution concerned with peace issues.
Participants can submit proposals as individuals or teams or in the form of institutions. (No limit to team size)
In 2021, the UN Biodiversity Conference, the Nanjing Peace Forum Organizing Committee, and the College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University jointly launched the “Zootopia” International Youth Practice Camp, in collaboration with forces from all sectors of society.
Hongshan hopes to solicit feasible creative solutions, such as service experience design, consumption scenario design, and derivative design, from professional institutions and higher education institutions worldwide to build a “Zootopia” in the hearts of Generation Z through multi-scenario experience and remodeling.
The “Design for Peace” will take Nanjing Hongshan Forest Zoo as one of the real scenarios and cooperate with young people at home and abroad to jointly implement the ecological peace initiative of “Multiple Responsible Bodies to Help Hongshan Forest Zoo Upgrade the Service System”. By cultivating empathy that values and treats each other well, we can dispel misunderstandings, build up collaboration, and restore trust to protect the earth we live on together.
Content Requirements: Fill in the application information and upload the work in pictures, video, posters, or other forms via the “Design for Peace” application channel of the Nanjing Peace Forum. Besides, participants should fill in the corresponding work description online. The size of the uploaded file should not exceed 500MB.
The entries of participants will be reviewed by a panel composed of top experts from the fields of public health and food, educational equity, technology for good, sustainable business, rural development, eco-peace and climate action, youth empowerment, and art, as well as accredited experts of international organizations.
The initiative solicits peace action plans from people in different regions and countries worldwide to arouse the whole society’s attention and responsibility for peacebuilding and inspires more people to raise a voice for peace and to participate in peacebuilding activities. People can write and submit a Peace Action Plan revolving around the following themes to present their thoughts and actions:
1 Public Health and Food
2 Public Health and Food
3 Livelihoods and Job Opportunities
4 Technology for Good
5 Sustainable Business and Consumption
6 Urban, Rural Development and World Heritage Conservation
7 Eco-Peace and Climate Action
8 Youth and Peace Action
9 Other peace-related themes
The “Design for Peace” solicits two categories of applications. One category is action plans, which belong to entries; the other category is visual works, among which the high-quality ones will be displayed in related activities of the Nanjing Peace Website and Nanjing Peace Forum, which belong to non-entries.
If your project is shortlisted, you will receive an Outstanding Participant Certificate.
If your project is ranked in the top 30% of the shortlist, you will receive the “Promising Peace Designer” Certificate granted by the Nanjing Peace Forum Organizing Committee.
If your project is ranked in the top 10% of the shortlist, you will receive the “Excellent Peace Designer” Certificate and a certain amount of seed fund, and project incubation granted by the Nanjing Peace Forum Organizing Committee.
If your project is ranked in the top 3% of the shortlist, you will receive the “Outstanding Peace Designer” Certificate, a certain amount of seed fund, and project incubation granted by the Nanjing Peace Forum Organizing Committee.
Some team representatives of the shortlisted Action Plans will be invited to participate in the sharing or project display of the Nanjing Peace Forum, and the top 30% of the shortlisted Action Plans will attend the Certificate-awarding Ceremony at the Nanjing Peace Forum (depending on Covid-19 situation), at which the awards will be presented by experts and scholars in the field of peace and representatives of international organizations.
Write the Action Plan; Submit the Action Plan
Action plan review
Announcement of Shortlisted Projects; Awarding and Display at the Nanjing Peace Forum
The “Design for Peace” encourages participants of all ages to take part in the campaign with actions that match their cognitive, social-emotional, and capacity (no age limit). The Global Peace Initiative is open to any individual, group, or institution concerned with peace issues.
Participants can submit proposals as individuals or teams or in the form of institutions. (No limit to team size)
The initiative solicits peace action plans from people in different regions and countries worldwide to arouse the whole society’s attention and responsibility for peacebuilding and inspires more people to raise a voice for peace and to participate in peacebuilding activities. People can write and submit a Peace Action Plan revolving around the following themes to present their thoughts and actions:
1 Public Health and Food
2 Educational Equity and Gender Equality
3 Livelihoods and Job Opportunities
4 Technology for Good
5 Sustainable Business and Consumption
6 Urban, Rural Development and World Heritage Conservation
7 Eco-Peace and Climate Action
8 Youth and Peace Action
9 Other peace-related themes
At the beginning of 2020, while taking a heavy toll on society and the economy, the breakout of COVID-19 led us to rethink the relationship between human and nature. Environmental challenges around the globe requires more collaboration, creativity, and actions.
According to incomplete statistics, there are about 1,200 city zoos around the globe and more than half of them facing business difficulties due to the pandemic. It is imperative to improve the environment and welfare of animals and foster the concept of ecological consumption. As a forerunner in animal protection and environmental education in China, Nanjing Hongshan Forest Zoo adhered to the respect and kindness to animal lives during the pandemic period. It aroused the awareness of social responsibility, and reflected the thinking and position of “Living in Harmony with Nature for Peace”.
The business plight of city zoos cannot be broken by merely counting on one stakeholder or several. Still, the government, universities, enterprises, international organizations, social groups, research institutes, media, and other sectors of society need to be encouraged to work together and create changes beyond the limitations of disciplines, fields, identities, and institutional interests.
In 2021, the UN Biodiversity Conference, the Nanjing Peace Forum Organizing Committee, and the College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University jointly launched the “Zootopia” International Youth Practice Camp, in collaboration with forces from all sectors of society.
Hongshan hopes to solicit feasible creative solutions, such as service experience design, consumption scenario design, and derivative design, from professional institutions and higher education institutions worldwide to build a “Zootopia” in the hearts of Generation Z through multi-scenario experience and remodeling.
The “Design for Peace” will take Nanjing Hongshan Forest Zoo as one of the real scenarios and cooperate with young people at home and abroad to jointly implement the ecological peace initiative of “Multiple Responsible Bodies to Help Hongshan Forest Zoo Upgrade the Service System”. By cultivating empathy that values and treats each other well, we can dispel misunderstandings, build up collaboration, and restore trust to protect the earth we live on together.
The “Design for Peace” solicits two categories of applications. One category is action plans, which belong to entries; the other category is visual works, among which the high-quality ones will be displayed in related activities of the Nanjing Peace Website and Nanjing Peace Forum, which belong to non-entries.
Content Requirements: Fill in the application information and submit the action plan via the “Design for Peace” application channel of the Nanjing Peace Forum. The action plan needs to be completed online. Before that, please register an account on the Nanjing Peace Website (nanjingpeaceforum.com). Participants should fill out the Online Application Form according to the requirements. The entries comprises Action Acceleration and Seed Action and Creation pathways, the participants can choose one of the pathways to submit applications depending on the stage of peace actions. The Action Acceleration pathway targets relatively experienced practitioners and calls for action plans at scaling up stages while the Seed Action and Creation pathway targets actions at initial or conceptual stage.
Content Requirements: Fill in the application information and upload the work in pictures, video, posters, or other forms via the “Design for Peace” application channel of the Nanjing Peace Forum. Besides, participants should fill in the corresponding work description online. The size of the uploaded file should not exceed 500MB.
If your project is shortlisted, you will receive an Outstanding Participant Certificate.
If your project is ranked in the top 30% of the shortlist, you will receive the “Promising Peace Designer” Certificate granted by the Nanjing Peace Forum Organizing Committee.
If your project is ranked in the top 10% of the shortlist, you will receive the “Excellent Peace Designer” Certificate and a certain amount of seed fund, and project incubation granted by the Nanjing Peace Forum Organizing Committee.
If your project is ranked in the top 3% of the shortlist, you will receive the “Outstanding Peace Designer” Certificate, a certain amount of seed fund, and project incubation granted by the Nanjing Peace Forum Organizing Committee.
Some team representatives of the shortlisted Action Plans will be invited to participate in the sharing or project display of the Nanjing Peace Forum, and the top 30% of the shortlisted Action Plans will attend the Certificate-awarding Ceremony at the Nanjing Peace Forum (depending on Covid-19 situation), at which the awards will be presented by experts and scholars in the field of peace and representatives of international organizations.
Completeness: The dimension examines to what extent your proposal responds to all questions in the proposal template.
Relevance: The dimension examines to what extent your proposal is relevant to peace themes.
Effectiveness and social impact: The dimension examines to what extent your proposal can show an impact upon the targeted beneficiaries.
Feasibility and transferability: The dimension examines to what extent your proposal can be implemented and its applicability to similar challenges in different contexts.
Innovativeness: The dimension concerns the originality of the action plan and to what extent you can think out of the box and adopt innovational/unconventional methods to tackle challenges.
Sustainability: The dimension examines to what extent your actions can continue beyond a certain period of implementation.
The entries of participants will be reviewed by a panel composed of top experts from the fields of public health and food, educational equity, technology for good, sustainable business, rural development, eco-peace and climate action, youth empowerment, and art, as well as accredited experts of international organizations.
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No. 41, Beijing East Road, Xuanwu District, Nanjing
Nanjing China
