Peace in Practice: An Arts-Based Workshop

About the event

We are delighted to part of Geneva Peace Week 2025 with an arts-based workshop, inviting participants to explore peace not as an abstract ideal but as a lived, creative practice. 

• Date: Tuesday 14 October, 11:00-12:30
• Venue: Maison de la Paix/Geneva, Conference Center C2 (pétale 5) 
• Capacity: In-person, 24 participants
• Main Organiser: Caux Initiatives of Change Foundation
• Partner: Geneva Peacebuilding Platform

ABOUT THE WORKSHOP

In a world where faith in the possibility of peace can feel fragile, this 90-minute intermodal expressive arts journey invites you to reimagine and re-envision what a peaceful world could look and feel like.

Through a blend of creative writing, sound, movement, and visual arts, you’ll awaken the imagination as a force for transformation — both personal and collective. As peacebuilder John Paul Lederach reminds us, peacebuilding is a profoundly creative act, and the moral imagination emerges “in the messiness of innovation,” finding its way into the art and soul of building peace.

Rooted in expressive arts principles and drawing from phenomenology, imagination-in-action, and poiesis, this session invites you to experience peace not as an abstract aspiration or rigid concept, but as a living, breathing practice of creativity and connection.

Together, we will explore:
🌱 What inner resources sustain us in the ongoing work of peace?
🎨 How might we extend artistic and relational invitations to others, imagining a shared, just, and compassionate future?

Through embodied storytelling and collaborative creation, this space offers safety, inspiration, and creative collaboration, nurturing empathy, collective wisdom, and renewed hope.

This workshop is an opportunity to pause, to create, and to remember that peace begins in the act of imagination itself.

ORGANISER

MARUEE PAHUJA (India), Expressive Arts Consultant, Process Facilitator, Visual Artist, Creative Leadership

Maruee Pahuja is an impassioned Expressive Arts Consultant, Process Facilitator, Visual Artist, and Eye-Care Practitioner passionate about bridging arts and science. At the Caux Initiatives of Change Foundation, she fosters peacebuilding through arts-based approaches and drives strategy with Creative Leadership, the Caux Foundation's initiative for young leaders and is a member of the Caux Arts and Peace Encounters Advisory Committee. With over 300 workshops worldwide and collaborations with 25+ non-profits, Maruee champions arts-based interventions for leadership and community resilience. A speaker at Geneva Peace Week 2024, the International Day of Conscience 2025 and the Caux Democracy Forum, she has created 5,000+ multimedia artworks and exhibited nationally. Dedicated to transformation through creativity, Maruee continues to inspire and innovate globally.

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About Geneva Peace Week

Geneva Peace Week is a leading annual forum in the international peacebuilding calendar through which organizations in Geneva and their international partners come together to share knowledge and practice on a diverse range of topics related to peace across contexts and disciplines. 

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