Imagine peace

Peace is often framed as harmony. Yet peace cannot exist without acknowledging injustice, power, and pain. Imagine Peace therefore explores not only peace itself, but the question that precedes it: what is justice, and for whom? It creates space for grief, friction, and discomfort, and invites visitors not only to understand the world, but to engage with it on a moral and emotional level. Within Wereldmuseum, this is where global citizenship becomes collective, urgent, and felt.

Imagine Peace is a cultural program that does not romanticize peace, but questions and redefines it. It connects peace to agency and shared responsibility. It holds space for multiple perspectives without defaulting to neutrality. It brings together imagination, emotion, and critical reflection. At the same time, it remains accessible to a broad audience, without compromising on depth or complexity.

Imagine Peace is for:

• Visitors seeking deeper cultural and social understanding
• People navigating global developments and their own place within them
• Communities connected, directly or indirectly, to conflict, migration, and inequality
• Anyone looking for meaning, connection, and ways to act

These audiences overlap with those of Wereldmuseum, but are engaged here more directly on a moral and personal level.

Imagine Peace is not a standalone program, campaign, or temporary theme. It is an ongoing and guiding force within Wereldmuseum. A space that shapes programming, partnerships, and public conversations around peace and justice. It is where Wereldmuseum shows that peace begins with justice, and that imagination is a necessary step toward change.

• Iran's longing for dignity
• Re/membering identity
• Silencing & Humanitarian Aid in Sudan

• Archives of her in Diaspora
• Sudan: Making the unseen visible
• Caught between two worlds: Jewish identity in two places
• Behind the scenes: the Palestinian table
• The Palestinian table
• Living without Islamophobia
• Believing in what is possible
• Living with the consequences of ecocide

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