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UNESCO, through its Routes of Enslaved Peoples programme, has been working with the Guerrand-Hermès Foundation for Peace since 2018 to develop a methodology for facilitating collective healing — intergenerational dialogue workshops co-created and led by impacted communities across four continents.

Well-being understood through four dimensions: meaningful experience, quality of awareness, connections and relationships, and self-conscious recognition of non-instrumental value — all in synergy.

Peace not only observed in the absence of conflict, but including aspects of justice, good health, safety, well-being, prosperity, equity, security, resilience and openness to the other.

Our notion of dialogue brings together individuals from different backgrounds, faith traditions and worldviews; with formal discipline and yet encouraging all participants to connect with their inner world and experience the inter-relatedness of all human beings.

Eudaimonia — human-oriented growth and well-being as the highest human good in Aristotelian ethics. Human flourishing as the aim of practical philosophy, including ethics and political philosophy.

Human-centred education: the development of the whole person, holistic curriculum and assessment, human relations between teachers and students, and personal qualities such as curiosity, caring and inner integrity.

Ethics Education distinguishes itself with three pedagogical pillars: Ethical Sensitivity and Reflection; Ethical Relations and Dialogue; and Child Agency, Participation and Transformative Action — together forming the ethical foundation for learning and well-being.

All forms of interaction and communication — through speech, writing or shared activities — that help mutual understanding and cooperation between people who self-identify religiously in one form or another.

Provision of psychological and social resources to help overcome trauma brought about by disaster, war or violence, fostering resilience and easing resumption of normal life in individuals and communities.

Restoring friendship or union after conflict or rupture — tied to economic, social, political and environmental justice, all of which play a therapeutic role in the reconciliation process.

The living capacity to forgive — not forgetting, but releasing the pain embedded in memory. Surrendering our resistance to forgiving so that we may fully express our gifts and talents today.

An economy is the result of a set of processes including culture, values, education, technological evolution, history, social organisation, political structure and legal systems, as well as geography, natural resource endowment and ecology.