EXchange FORUM
The Exchange Forum will be closely connected to the Lab. It will provide a collaborative space for practitioners, researchers, and community-based experts, to engage with JustPeace and each other, sharing knowledge, co-creating solutions, and learning together.
The Exchange Forum will foster exchange between diverse experts — including local leaders, grassroots practitioners, and academic researchers — and support collaborative involvement in projects, ensuring local ownership and contextual sensitivity.
JustPeace welcomes experts with diverse forms of knowledge — including professional, academic, indigenous, and experiential — to explore collaborative opportunities, with particular attention to voices from historically marginalised communities.
EXCHANGE
The Exchange Forum plans to facilitate equitable exchange across diverse areas of expertise, centering mutual learning and valuing different ways of knowing — from academic research to community-based and indigenous knowledge systems.
It provides a collaborative space where diverse practitioners can exchange, design, and co-create projects rooted in local contexts to address inequality, injustice, and conflict.
ACTIVITIES
Members of the Exchange Forum will be able to contribute to and benefit from JustPeace’s collaborative initiatives in different ways.
CSOs and Hubs will prioritise Exchange Forum members — particularly those with locally rooted expertise — for involvement in project work. Members may also collaborate in the Lab, where they will co-shape research and analysis alongside JustPeace and its partners.
MEMBERSHIP
Members of the Exchange Forum should demonstrate at least five years of experience working in the areas of peace, justice, or human security. This may include professional work, community leadership, indigenous knowledge practice, or research — recognising both formal and informal pathways to expertise.
Forum members are expected to approach their work with a commitment to ethical, conflict-sensitive, and justice-centred practice. This includes an awareness of their own positionality and a willingness to work in ways that amplify marginalised voices, challenge unequal power dynamics, and prioritise local ownership and agency.