Why Peace Begins at Home: Reclaiming the First Blueprint of Power
“Now is the time to connect the dots: the way we raise our children and treat each other in families directly shapes our politics, our economies, and our future.”
Dr. Riane Eisler.
When we talk about peace, we often look outward, toward wars, political unrest, or fractured societies. But the most enduring patterns of violence and care don’t start in legislatures or on battlefields. They start at home.
From our earliest days, we learn how power works. Whether through domination or partnership, we internalize unspoken lessons about control, connection, worth, and fear. These formative patterns ripple outward, shaping how we lead, relate, govern, teach, love, and live.
And yet, we rarely question the original blueprint.
Home as the Seed of Systems
Dr. Riane Eisler’s groundbreaking research has shown that the systems we build — whether in politics, economics, education, or technology — mirror the power structures we first encounter in our families.
In homes steeped in domination, children absorb hierarchies, rigid roles, coercion, and violence. In homes rooted in partnership, they experience empathy, mutual respect, care, and shared power.
What begins as a parenting style becomes a political logic.
What begins at the dinner table becomes the culture of a boardroom.
What begins in gender roles becomes the scaffolding of whole economies.
To build a more peaceful world, we must start where these patterns start.
Why This Summit, Why Now?
We are living through a crisis not just of conflict, but of culture.
Rising inequality, ecological collapse, burnout, polarization—these are not isolated issues. They’re symptoms of systems shaped by domination.
At the Peace Begins at Home Summit, we invite you to trace these patterns to their roots, and reimagine what’s possible.
This virtual global gathering on October 29, 2025 will bring together visionaries across sectors:
Peacebuilders and policymakers
Leading thinkers, scientists, and economists
Psychologists, educators, healers, and community leaders
Together, we’ll explore how to move from harm to healing in every system that grows from home — from gender relations to environmental stewardship, from business to media, from education to economics.
We’ll examine how we’ve been taught to see power—and how we can reclaim it differently.
More Than an Event—A Cultural Shift
This is not just a conference. It’s an invitation to change the way we see peace—and where we begin building it.
You’ll hear stories of transformation, learn from world-class thinkers, and discover actionable models that challenge domination and uplift care.
Because peace isn’t just the absence of war. It’s the presence of connection, mutual respect, and systems that allow everyone to thrive.
Join Us
On October 29, 2025, around the world, we’ll gather to ask a powerful question:
What if the most radical thing we can do for peace… is to begin at home?