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Let’s Just Walk Peace. A Manifesto

A path to learn peace – all along the longest peacepath in the world

Why We Walk
We walk because we believe peace is more than the absence of war. Peace is presence: of justice, of inclusion, of human dignity for all involved. We walk because we are deeply touched by what injustice does — in Gaza, the Westbank, in Israel, in Ukraine, in Sudan, at Europe’s outside borders and in our own streets. We feel anger, grief, powerlessness. And we choose not to harden those feelings, but to move with them. Literally. Vulnerable, resistant, hopeful.

We walk because we want to listen. To each other. To stories of grief, and stories of joy, those of hope and those of pain. To teachers of justice & peacebuilding. We walk to learn what just peace truly demands. From each of us.

What This Walk Is
The Peace Walk is more than a walk. It is a path of encounter, learning, and resistance. It is a school for peace: We will find stories of resilience, peacebuilding and resistance all along the way, in each and every town and city. We are a walking school;

– not in classrooms, but on the roads
– not through theory, but through feet, breath, voice, listening and witness
– not led by one truth, but nourished by many stories
This is spiritual and political resistance — a refusal to become cynical, a choice to remain upright and vulnerable. And it is a celebration of hope — a traveling festival of music, rituals, silence, dance, sorrow, and joy.

For Whom We Walk
We walk for people living under occupation, in conflict zones, in forgotten camps. We walk for children without a voice, for activists who endure, for those who mourn, for anyone still daring to dream of peace. For the next generations that have to live with what we do today. We will walk with them, physically or mentally. Everyone is welcome. Whether you walk for two hours or two months. Whether you are young or old, muslim, christian, bhuddist, jew, humanist or non-believer, refugee, artist, activist, or unsure, Let’s walk next to each other.

How We Walk
We walk slowly: 20 kilometers a day, 120 kilometers a week. Walking from different cities, sometimes in small numbers, sometimes in groups – all depending on who joins for the day, the week of the walk. We walk with attention. We walk with care: for the land, for each other, for the communities we pass through.

We will carry no country flags. This is a pilgrimage and a Peacewalk.Our Walk is a Brave Space, which includes controversy with care, owning intentions and impacts, challenge by choice, respect and no attacks.

What We Learn
The intention of the Walk is to learn peace at three levels:

1. Inner Peace: to learn practices to develop inner peace, emotionally, mentally.
2. Community Peace: to pratice tools for peacebuilding community processes together.
3. Political Peace: peace is political, even when it’s grassroots. How to contribute to lasting peace?.

Practice Peace
Peace is not a destination — it is something you do. When you honour someone, when you speak up for someone, when you offer tea, when you translate, carry someone’s bag, sweep a floor, document a story.  Each day, we ask ourselves: “How do I serve peace today?”

Where We’re Headed
We walk towards Jerusalem, Yerushalayim, Al Quds. A city that holds both blessing and fracture for so many different cultures and religions. A symbol of responsibility. A place of covenant for so many people, a covenant between the source of Life, God, Allah, The One and all living beings. Jerusalem is not the end. The end of the Peacewalk is not the end. It continues in how we choose to live after. In our communities, our politics, our daily lives.

“Peace is not a place you arrive at. It’s a path you learn to walk.”