The Peace Compass is a book that explains the four directions needed to build peace: the personal, interpersonal, societal-cultural and planetary. Because many people understand peace as the absence of war, we lack answers to what it means to build peace. Wanting peace isn’t enough, we must also learn how to build it. This book lays out the many components that can guide us towards a more peaceful world.
The book was first published in Dutch (2024). You can find it here: Het vredeskompas
The English version (2025) is available on Amazon.
And the Italian version (2025) can be bought from the Gandhi Institute.
You can watch a summary of the book here:
I wrote this book in 2024, urged by the atrocities in the Occupied Palestinian Territory of the Gaza Strip following Hamas’ attack on Israel on October 7, 2023. My book cannot immediately change political realities, but it offers a vision for peace that we can immediately start to work on, to create long-term and long-lasting change.
It also includes many examples from all over the world, so that readers everywhere can find things that may be relevant for them. Secondly, there are practices, to that it doesn’t stay theoretical and readers can take small yet meaningful steps toward peace, no matter where they are in the world.
In this blog at Everyday Peacebuilding you can read more about it.
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