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Peace Wave 2026

The Fifth Annual 24-Hour Peace Wave remains a 24-hour-long Zoom featuring peace actions in the streets and squares of the world, moving around the globe with the sun. But participants will have until November 1, 2026, to submit videos of peace activism, filmed at any time in the first 10 months of 2026.

We will then compile the videos into 24 videos of 40 minutes each. We will then announce the date of a Zoom webinar that will have 40 minutes of video and 20 of introduction and live discussion (including your questions) every hour for 24 hours.

Have you done any pro-peace or antiwar activities already in 2026 that you have good video of? Let us know! Are you planning any activities between now and October 31 that you can make video of? Let us know!

We’re looking for good quality videos of events and activities, ideally in landscape (horizontal) format, and showing any sort of peace activism other than sitting at a desk and talking to a camera (rallies, demonstrations. concerts, banner-drops, mural painting, etc.)

If you’re intrested in having your video included, please tell us about it and yourself, including where in the world you are.

    After you contact us above, you’ll hear from a coordinator for your part of the world who can answer your questions and tell you how to send them your video.

    Video’s should be of nonviolent activism for peace of any variety whatsoever, a rally, a parade, a sit-in, a conference, a concert, a planting of a peace pole, the painting of a mural, the disrupting of a war activity, promotion of a divestment resolution in a city council meeting, displaying a banner on a bridge, creating peace wreaths, blocking a weapons train, sailing an aid flotilla, etc., etc., etc. — really anything other than talking heads at desks.

    Have you done any pro-peace or antiwar activities already in 2026 that you have good video of? Let us know! Are you planning any activities between now and October 31 that you can make video of? Let us know!

    We’re going to compile a 40-minute highlights reel for a whole region of the world. So we won’t be able to use the full video of an hours-long event. How many minutes we’ll be able to include will vary by region, but a general guideline is this: we can make a 40-minute video out of 10 four-minute videos. So, think about sending us your best four minutes, but feel free to send more and we’ll edit. 

    Here is a graphic (hi res) and (low res) that you can print and display at the event that you videotape. Or you can use it to make your own shirts. Or you can order shirts here.

    How to Film Your Event

    • This is pre-recording, not live, so you do not need to worry about Zoom settings or wifi, and can just focus on filming a great video.
    • Ideally, film in horizontal (landscape) mode.
    • Consider testing or rehearsing to make sure you’ll be getting the sound and picture your hope to capture.
    • Position yourself to capture clear and loud audio.
    • Minimize unwanted audio interference nearby.
    • Film in any language you like. If it is not in English, we will want to create an English transcript, so any help (such as providing an original language transcript) will be appreciated.
    • It’s OK to add an introductory graphic or text or spoken commentary explaining what the video is, the time and place and nature of the event, or to simply include that information as text with the video you send us, which will allow us to include more standardized explanations throughout the peace wave.

    Be sure to let your coordinator know if you’ll be willing to be online live to answer questions following your video.

    1. Alaska and Hawaii
    2. Pacific Islands
    3. New Zealand and Australia
    4. Papua, Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia
    5. Japan
    6. Korea
    7. Philippines
    8. Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar
    9. Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka
    10. India, Pakistan, Afghanistan
    11. Western Asia
    12. North Africa
    13. West and Central Africa
    14. East and Southern Africa
    15. Eastern Europe
    16. Western Europe
    17. Northern South America
    18. Southern South America
    19. Central America
    20. Mexico
    21. Eastern North America
    22. Central North America
    23. Mountain North America
    24. Western North America
    You can see the detailed agendas and watch the complete videos of past years’ peace waves here.
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    Wear these shirts

    Here is a graphic (hi res) and (low res) that you can print and display at the event that you videotape. Or you can use it to make your own shirts. Or you can click to order shirts above.

    Share the news that the peace wave is coming, on Facebook, Twitter, Blue Sky, LinkedIn, and Threads.

    Easy way to get to this page: http://24hourpeacewave.org     Organized by: International Peace Bureau and World BEYOND War.