Development

In the wake of the Democracy Forum Waldeck-Frankenberg founded in 2024 and the reflections around an Instagram campaign for world peace, a process began in August 2024 in which, by early 2026, several dozen civil-society actors drafted an agreement for peace between world citizens and wrote an exposé about it. There were assemblies, a two-day conference in November 2025, plenty of meetings, very many conversations and email exchanges spread over the entire year. The kickoff event took place on 21 March 2026 in the Brehm Library at Bad Arolsen Residential Palace. Here we presented the project and there was an expert lecture. Afterwards a founding charter was signed among those present and the first World Peace Agreements could be signed. The event was recorded and can be watched on YouTube: World Peace Agreement between Individuals — Kickoff Event. There is still a great deal of work ahead of us and we are now starting in our personal environments with a campaign through which we want to move 1,000 people in 2026 to sign the agreement and take part.

This is a first simple website that makes it possible to co-sign the agreement. Depending on developments and our resources, a digital platform — a global commoning help center for peace — is to be built on top of it. The community of signatories should be able to offer one another mutual help here, peace projects should be able to be initiated and supported. Educational offerings and projects promoting peace should also be presented. For all of this we ask you for a donation for the IT services that we need now. The institutional infrastructure is provided for the time being by the non-profit association Gaiamocracy e.V. We want to do a lot of alliance- and network-building work and need plenty of start-up help right at the beginning. Feel free to get in touch with us, by email info@gaiamocracy.org or mobile +49 1523 35 480 99.

Why a World Peace Agreement?

The longing for lasting peace, security and human rights is a universal concern of humanity. In a world shaped by conflict, injustice, environmental destruction, multiple crises, hatred and cruelty, innovative approaches are needed to shape a peaceful and sustainable future. This exposé presents a comprehensive World Peace Agreement between people as individuals, in order to create a global movement for peace. The World Peace Agreement is intended to build a direct connection between the signatories, form moral support and create a consciousness of peace. Peace will be achieved through understanding and not through violence. The mission is: sustainable promotion of peace through networking, cooperation, education and assistance.

The very large majority of the world's civil society wants to live in peace. Conflicts should be resolved peacefully. Justice should prevail and the dignity of every human being and every living creature should be respected. Yet the world is a struggle for survival for a very large part of all living beings — without great hope.

Peace is difficult to restore, especially when it is meant to be more than the end of violence. For peace negotiations to succeed, a plan is needed, as well as the ability to put oneself in others' shoes, to listen to them and to seek conversation with them. This requires great patience and humility. It takes great commitment, particularly in institutionalized truth and reconciliation processes between victims and perpetrators. Arranging a coming-together, speaking the liberating truth about the conflict or the crime, and opening hearts for forgiveness and recognition are great steps. The goals can be to look together into the future and to create processes that reconcile, heal, unite and give hope of being able to build a better future. For humans and all other living beings to live happily, a shared understanding is needed of what we mean by humanity and how we can put it into practice.

Much of the worldwide human-made negative developments stems above all from the unjust distribution of power. Concentrated power in the hands of a few quickly leads to abuse of power. International treaties are broken, international law is disregarded and the United Nations are at times powerless, as decisions can be blocked by one of the five permanent veto powers. Thus, in every moment, unspeakable human-made suffering occurs. The World Peace Agreement is meant to form a counterweight to these negative developments. It builds on the traditions and achievements of democratic constitutions and international treaties for human rights, peace and disarmament and is — unlike agreements between nations — to be signed by individuals, in order to have a positive effect on the structures and processes of our global community.

Strengthening peace, the rule of law and human rights

A worldwide offensive to promote, preserve and strengthen democracy is urgently needed. This in turn requires positive relations between all individuals, cultural groups and nations. Democracies form the best guarantees for peace, prosperous societies, the rule of law and the protection of human rights. Environmental protection, science and research, education, social justice and health develop better in a high-quality democracy. The World Peace Agreement provides a clear framework and concrete goals for networking individuals in order to expand these relationships and thereby promote peace worldwide. It is also a fact that individual (autocratic) warmongers are the main people responsible for wars and must therefore also be appropriately punished under international law.

This requires a comprehensive change in the way nations, cultural groups and individuals interact with one another. Recognizing the profound interconnectedness of all people and in the firm belief that lasting peace can only be achieved through cooperation, mutual respect, trust and respect for human dignity, the signatories conclude an agreement to realize a peaceful and just world. In the spirit of the Charter of the United Nations and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a world free from the scourge of war is to be created and a comprehensive agenda for disarmament and peace is to be established.

Securing peace

Peace shall here be defined as freedom from war, violence and fear, in order to be able to live in safety; as the active promotion of global social justice and the safeguarding of ecologically sustainable prosperity for all. The latter shall encompass material, health-related, social, ecological, educational and cultural aspects — a holistic approach that takes into account the well-being of all living beings and all of creation. This requires respect for fundamental and human rights and the protection of minorities, the rights of nature and the sharing of power, as well as the establishment of and respect for systems that prevent the abuse of power. This shall lead to freedom, contentment and the ability to be happy.

The World Peace Agreement symbolizes both the striving for inner peace of every human being with themselves and for outer peace with their environment in the form of mutual help, appreciation and security. It promotes the democratic idea, human rights and seeks to achieve the 17 Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations.

Furthermore, the World Peace Agreement calls for a democratization of the United Nations: this should include the "We The Peoples" campaign with its demand for a democratically elected World Parliament, a Citizens-of-the-World Initiative as well as a Citizens-of-the-World Council. With these instruments, worldwide regulations for peace and disarmament are to be established by the citizens of the world.

Organisation

The non-profit association Gaiamocracy e.V. will for the time being accompany the World Peace Agreement project and provide the infrastructural setup. This agreement is intended to become known worldwide so that people sign it and align themselves with it and can work on world peace. To this end, digital platforms for worldwide networking are to be used and social media and public-relations work is to be carried out. Peace education in schools and the organisation of events that make the World Peace Agreement and the awareness of peace known are to be promoted.

The World Peace Agreement project is meant to give the impulse for founding an umbrella organisation for the worldwide networking of peace actors and, in cooperation with the many venerable peace activists and peace organisations, to create an infrastructure for a global movement for world peace.

A help center is to be set up as a contact and coordination point that supports individuals and organisations in implementing peace-promoting measures. On the digital platforms, information on organisations and individuals working for peace will be provided in order to foster the exchange of ideas and experiences and to support joint initiatives. They are also meant to initiate and support peace projects launched by signatories of the agreement. It makes sense to provide a permanently reachable support for all questions and concerns. This build-up of an infrastructure for the World Peace Agreement is subject to a code of values whose guidelines orient ethical action and cooperation. It will require great support from the network of signatories of the World Peace Agreement to be implemented.

World Peace Agreement

A peaceful world begins with every single human being, not with governments or international organisations. The World Peace Agreement starts at the individual level and is intended to create a global pact for peace, respect and cooperation. It is the call to action — when, if not now? The vision is that every individual acts as a peace builder. Through the networking and support of these individuals, a powerful force emerges that can bring about positive change in the world. It is thus intended to be a global campaign for the promotion of peace.

The first principle of the World Peace Agreement is the answering of a simple yes/no question: whether one wants world peace. Beyond that, one can speed up the process through active willingness to collaborate and help. What concrete collaboration can look like can be discovered both through a questionnaire and through the community of the World Peace Agreement, and through an advisory team that is available for questions, suggestions and exchange. Furthermore, the agreement can — without changing its essential content — be personalised and provided with self-determined contractual commitments.