Women Rising for Peace
The World Women Summit 2026 – Women Rising for Peace celebrates and strengthens this movement. It is a gathering of women who are transforming the conditions that allow violence to persist and creating the foundations for a more compassionate and resilient world.
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When women rise, peace becomes imaginable
When humanity rises together, peace becomes unstoppable.
Join us in shaping a world where healing is not the exception but the foundation.
A Trauma-Informed Pathway to Peace
Across cultures and contexts, women are shaping peace through the way they work. The 2026 Summit highlights the eight-stage pathway that underpins this leadership:
Witnessing harm and breaking silence
Building trust and emotional safety across divides
Forming resilience circles that support mobilisation
Organising nonviolent action rooted in dignity
Preventing escalation through rapid response
Entering negotiations with healing-sensitive strategies
Implementing systems that sustain peace
Sustaining long-term resilience and intergenerational healing
These principles form the backbone of peace work across the world, from grassroots organising to high-level diplomacy, and demonstrate that peace is not a single act but a long arc of moral courage, skill, and sustained commitment.
The World Women Summit 2026 – Women Rising for Peace celebrates and strengthens this global movement. It is a gathering of women who are transforming the conditions that allow violence to persist and creating the foundations for a more compassionate and resilient world.
Program Overview
Keynote Conversations
Powerful dialogues with visionary women shaping peace through courage, clarity, and lived experience across cultures and contexts.
On the Frontlines
First-hand stories from women working at the edges of crisis, transformation, and healing where peace is most urgently needed.
Peace Lessons
Grounded insights and practices drawn from real-world peacebuilding, offering practical wisdom for navigating conflict and fostering resilience.
Live Gatherings
Interactive spaces to connect, reflect, and engage collectively, strengthening relationships and shared commitment to peace in action.
Keynote Conversations 2026
Trauma-Informed Leadership for a World in Transformation
Across the world, women are responding to humanity’s most urgent challenges with courage and clarity. They build trust across divides, mobilise communities, prevent violence, open negotiations, and sustain peace long after agreements are signed. Their leadership is both strategic and deeply human—relational, grounded, and fiercely committed to life.
The World Women Summit 2026 – Women Rising for Peace brings these women together to strengthen a growing movement: transforming the conditions that allow violence to persist and laying foundations for a more compassionate, resilient world.
“Peace is not the absence of war, peace is the integration of the wounds of the war and the unification of the fabric of life. This is how space/time heals and war ceases to exist. War then becomes a faint memory in the human psyche. It ceases to be what it is currently – an active player that runs the world”
Thomas Hübl
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Across the world, women are responding to humanity’s most urgent challenges with courage and clarity. They build trust across divides, mobilise communities, prevent violence, open negotiations, and sustain peace long after agreements are signed. Their leadership is both strategic and deeply human—relational, grounded, and fiercely committed to life.
The World Women Summit 2026 – Women Rising for Peace brings these women together to strengthen a growing movement: transforming the conditions that allow violence to persist and laying foundations for a more compassionate, resilient world.
Summit Hosts 2026
Kosha Joubert
CEO | Pocket Project & Co-host
Kosha Joubert is the CEO of the Pocket Project, where she works closely with Thomas Huebl and a global team to grow a culture of trauma-informed care. Kosha is an expert facilitator, coach and organisational development facilitator who has worked on systems regeneration, trauma-informed leadership and post-traumatic growth in more than 48 countries. Kosha has authored several books and received the Dadi Janki Award (2017) for engaging spirituality in life and work and the One World Award (2020) for building the Global Ecovillage Network to a worldwide movement reaching out to over 6000 communities on all continents.
Scilla Elworthy
Nobel Peace Prize nominee & Co-host
Dr Scilla Elworthy is a three times Nobel Peace Prize nominee for her work with Oxford Research Group to develop effective dialogue between nuclear weapons policy-makers worldwide and their critics. She founded Peace Direct in 2002 to fund‚ promote and learn from local peace-builders in conflict areas‚ was awarded the Niwano Peace Prize in 2003‚ the Luxembourg Peace Prize in 2020, the Goi Peace Award in 2023, and advised Peter Gabriel‚ Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Sir Richard Branson in setting up ‘The Elders’. Her TED talk on nonviolence has been viewed by over 1‚500‚000 people on TED Global and YouTube. She founded The Business Plan for Peace to help prevent violent conflict and build sustainable peace, based on her latest books The Business Plan for Peace: Building a World Without War (2017) and The Mighty Heart in Action (2021), now an on-line course.
Sonita Mbah
Communications Manager | Pocket Project & Co-host
Sonita Mbah is a passionate food grower, regenerative systems designer and skilled facilitator, born in Cameroon. She co-initiated the Bafut Ecovillage, an off-grid learning center in Northwest Cameroon, and served for over a decade as Administrator of Better World Cameroon. She brings regenerative community and social enterprise development to several African communities. Sonita received the Gender Just Climate Solutions Award (2017) for pioneering climate smart technologies across several African countries. Driven by her passion for healing colonial trauma, Sonita took the Principles of Collective Trauma Healing course with Thomas Hübl. She is also the co-host of What is Collective Healing? podcast and 2 online summits reaching out to over 15.000 people globally.