Peace Finance Workshop 1 - From Principles to Practice (Humanity Hub Edition)
Discover how Peace Finance principles can help initiatives and investments reduce risks, unlock opportunities, and strengthen trust across different sectors and contexts.
This two-hour interactive, hybrid session builds on those principles with practical ways to connect finance, innovation, and peacebuilding. It offers a shared space for NGOs, social enterprises, investors, policy actors, and PeaceTech innovators to explore how peace-positive strategies create value and resilience.
9 December 2025 · 15:00–17:00 CET (Postponed – New date to be announced early 2026)· The Hague Humanity Hub (in-person) + Zoom (online)
About this session
This two-hour workshop takes forward the Humanity Hub’s Investing in Peace initiative by introducing the principles and practice of Peace Finance – exploring how finance, innovation, and collaboration can actively strengthen peace and resilience.
Peace Finance starts from a simple idea: every financial or organisational decision affects trust, inclusion, and stability. While some organisations work in fragile or conflict-affected settings, others focus on inequality, governance, human rights, or social innovation – all of which influence how societies sustain stability and inclusion. Peace-positive investments put this principle into practice: they seek not only financial or developmental returns but also measurable contributions to cooperation, legitimacy, and resilience in the communities they touch.
Through short examples and guided discussion, participants will explore how these ideas can translate into practical approaches for reducing risk, strengthening legitimacy, and unlocking new forms of partnership.
- Led by practitioners: Hear directly from professionals applying Peace Finance in practice - from fund design and social enterprise to governance and impact innovation.
- Interactive and applied: Work through real examples, group discussions, and short design challenges that turn abstract concepts into concrete tools.
- A first step in a series: This workshop marks the beginning of a broader learning journey on Peace Finance, with future sessions offering opportunities for deeper exchange, co-creation, and practice.
Why this workshop
Peace Finance provides a way to connect financial and development choices with the conditions that make societies more stable, inclusive, and resilient. As the boundaries between finance, innovation, and peacebuilding continue to blur, organisations in every sector face new opportunities – and responsibilities – to align their decisions with peace-positive outcomes.
This workshop offers an accessible starting point to that conversation, inviting participants from across civil society, policy, innovation, and finance to explore together how their work can contribute to long-term stability and shared prosperity.
Who is this workshop for?
- Civil-society organisations, NGOs & INGOs – strengthening inclusion, accountability, and social impact through collaborative, locally grounded approaches.
- Innovators & PeaceTech professionals – exploring how digital tools, data, and new business models can enhance transparency, participation, and trust.
- Peacebuilding & development practitioners – linking programmatic work to investment opportunities that build resilience and reduce fragility.
- Policy & governance advisers – integrating peace considerations into national, local, or corporate decision-making frameworks.
- Impact & finance actors – from donors and DFIs to ESG investors, looking for strategies that de-risk operations and connect capital flows with long-term stability.
What will you gain?
Clarity on peace finance
Gain a sharper understanding of how peace, development, and finance intersect – and how this perspective can strengthen impact and sustainability.
Practical application
Take away simple concepts and entry points to integrate peace-positive thinking into programme design, partnerships, or investment strategies.
New connections
Meet peers and practitioners from across the peace, development, finance, and innovation communities who are exploring similar challenges and opportunities.
Be a first mover
Join an early group of professionals helping shape how peace-positive approaches are understood and applied across different sectors and contexts.
- Duration: 120 minutes
- Location: The Hague Humanity Hub (Fluwelen Burgwal 58 in The Hague) & Online (Hybrid session)
- Format: Interactive workshop combining short inputs, group exercises, and open discussion
- Date: Tuesday December 9th, 2025
- Time: 15:00-17:00 CET
- Fee: €100 per person (pre-registration is free; payment link will be sent once full registration opens). Discount available for Hub members.
- Spots are limited - early sign-ups will receive the registration link first.