Peace Practice Roundtable

HAPEI Peace Practice Roundtable

Conversations That Move Peacebuilding From Theory to Practice

The HAPEI Peace Practice Roundtable is a dialogue and knowledge-exchange platform that brings together peacebuilders, development practitioners, researchers, educators, policymakers, young leaders, and other stakeholders to examine Africa’s most pressing challenges and explore practical pathways toward peaceful, inclusive, and sustainable development.

The Roundtable creates space for meaningful conversations that bridge the gap between knowledge, policy, and practice, connecting research, lived experiences, community realities, and innovative ideas.

While peacebuilding remains at the heart of the platform, the conversations extend across sustainable development, governance, youth participation, gender equality, human security, social inclusion, and Africa’s development priorities.

The Roundtable contributes to the vision of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGS) and the African Union Agenda 2063: The Africa We Want by creating a space for Africans to reflect on the continent’s progress, challenges, and opportunities and to explore how young people and communities can contribute to building a peaceful, prosperous, and people-centred Africa.

What began as a platform for conversations on peace practice has grown into an African conversation on peace and sustainable development—connecting people, ideas, and experiences across the continent.

Our Impact

Through the HAPEI Peace Practice Roundtable, HAPEI:

• Creates a platform for African voices and perspectives on peace, development, and the future of the continent.
• Facilitates conversations connecting peacebuilding with sustainable development.
• Promotes dialogue around Agenda 2063 and Africa’s development aspirations.
• Connects research, policy, professional experience, and community realities.
• Creates opportunities for young leaders and emerging professionals to contribute to important conversations about Africa’s future.
• Encourages cross-sector and cross-border knowledge exchange and collaboration.
• Promotes practical, locally grounded approaches to addressing challenges affecting peace, development, and social inclusion.

Shaping Conversations. Inspiring Action.

We believe that Africa’s future must be shaped by the people who live, work, and build within its communities.

The HAPEI Peace Practice Roundtable provides a space to question, learn, exchange ideas, and co-create solutions that advance peaceful, inclusive, and sustainable societies in line with the vision of Agenda 2063: The Africa We Want.

Focus Areas: Peacebuilding • Sustainable Development • AU Agenda 2063 • Governance • Youth Participation • Gender Equality • Human Security • Policy Dialogue • Research • Knowledge Exchange • Conflict Prevention