Creators of Peace UK seeks to engage women in communities across Britain in the creation of peace at every level of society, building networks of trust through workshops which address the roots of conflict in and around us, and creating friendship across racial, religious and social divides. Our aim is to enable women across the country to experience the Creators of Peace Circle either in their local community or over a residential weekend, and offer follow up training weekends for those who wish to start their own Peace Circle.

The Creators of Peace Circle is a workshop tool run by trained volunteers. It either runs for a few hours once a week over seven weeks, or over a long weekend, and is a small community gathering of women who together work through material designed to deepen their friendship and understanding of their peace creating capabilities. It provides a transformative space for inter-personal, inter-ethnic and inter-religious dialogue based on the sharing of personal experience, and addresses the personal, moral and spiritual prerequisites for being a ‘creator of peace’ at every level of society.

‘None of us lacks the vision for peace, what we often lack is the first step in action,’ says Yukika Sohma, pioneer of a Japanese initiative to care for refugees.

In her inaugural speech at the launch of Creators of Peace in Switzerland in 1991, the Hon. Anna Abdallah Msekwa of Tanzania, urged everyone to “create peace wherever we are, in our hearts, our homes, our workplace and our community. We all pretend that someone else is the stumbling block… Could that someone be myself?”

More information about Creators of Peace

Creators of Peace joined International Women’s Day events in Oxford and Edinburgh
In Oxford and Edinburgh, local Creators of Peace teams went to meet other women and discover their concerns at events to mark International Women’s Day on 8 March.
13 March 2012

Peace circles―they work!
A small change that we make in our daily lives can have ripple effects in our society.
19 December 2011

Creators of Peace – Joining up the circles
Creators of Peace joined in the International Day of Peace on 24 September, at the London centre of Initiatives of Change. It was 'real experience of women’s heart power, talents and some vision that together we shall conquer Peace. Peace between nations and within nations, between diverse communities and in families.'
30 September 2011

Introducing Creators of Peace in Bradford
‘Why are Creators of Peace Circles not yet introduced in Bradford?’ Willemijn Lambert (Dutch MA student at the Peace Department of the University of Bradford) found herself thinking. Having participated in the Creators of Peace Circle at Caux last summer, she attended the facilitation course in Oxford, January 2011. The idea stuck in her head and a short ‘workshop version’ was finally realized on the 18th and 19th of July..
3 August 2011

Peace Circles facilitation training in Edinburgh
After four Creators of Peace Circles in Edinburgh and Glasgow had taken place over the last year, it was time to offer training to participants wanting to facilitate one themselves. Over the weekend of 3 – 5 June Su Riddell and Kate Monkhouse were in Edinburgh to help the local team do just that. 
20 June 2011

Celebrating International Women’s Day in Oxford
Creators of Peace in Oxford took a stall at the Festival to mark International Women’s Day at the Town Hall in Oxford on 8th March. The aim was to network with others working in similar areas, and present our project to the public. 10 March 2011 

Peace Circles in Scotland
The more diverse the group, the wider the understanding of 'Peace'! So with participants aged from early 20s to 70s, from the Baltic and Portugal, from Sri Lanka and North India, from Palestine and the UK, Hindu, Christian, Jewish and Muslim, we learnt to listen to each other's pains and struggles, hopes and joys. Dr Monica Spooner gives feedback on two peace circles which have recently taken place in Scotland.
3 February 2011

What does it take to bring peace?
A group of women in Oxford have been exploring what is needed to bring the kind of peace they long to see in the world.
20 July 2010

Women spell out what it takes to create peace
Su Riddell, coordinator of Creators of Peace Circles in the UK, spoke of the many inspiring stories of friendship and reconciliation she had encountered when she and her team addressed a Greencoat Forum in the London centre of Initiatives of Change on 20 April. Their theme was ‘creating peace: what will it take?’ Cheryl Gallagher reports.
26 April 2010

Peace Circle in Oxford
Is it possible to work through the Creators of Peace Circle process in a weekend? Last weekend, seven women got together in Norham Road, Oxford, and tried just that.
13 November 2009

Creating a Culture of Peace – what will it take?
The 5th Creators of Peace International Conference took place in Sydney, Australia, 30 September – 4 October. A programme of Initiatives of Change, Creators of Peace is a women’s initiative which challenges and empowers women to become active peace-makers. It works partly through the methodology of ‘Peace Circles’ which have been trialed or established in 25 countries around the world. This conference brought some of these women together.
12 October 2009