The Genesis Peace Hub
An interconnected global ecosystem to build a peaceful world
NORTH AMERICA
Chicago, USA will be in leased space in an existing theater with our Social Entrepreneurship Center dedicated to educational programs and social impact business in arts, culture and social justice. Beginning with this location, we will develop and action the Genesis Task Force on Violence and Public Health’s strategic roadmap to mitigate violence and ameliorate its public health fallout.
EUROPE
Berlin, Germany will be in-residence at a tech university with a Social Entrepreneurship Center focused on technology for peacebuilding. (No sports programs or a teaching farm at this site.)
Normandy, France will be at an independent educational center on farmland (focused on peace education and environmental sustainability, farm to table and food justice; part-time, six months of the year.)
AFRICA
Smart City, Mauritius will be built on five acres within a smart city that is a repurposed 120-acre sugar cane plantation trans morphed into an equitable living-learning community dedicated to sustainability and the arts. Our Social Entrepreneurship Center in this location will focus on convening thought leaders and delivering education programs on environmental sustainability and peacebuilding. It will also serve as a retreat center for peacebuilders to restore and renew. Additionally, it will have a thriving arts and cultural component, and our sports and social change programs will be in partnership with Cote d’Or, a state-of-the-art sports facility training World Cup soccer players and Paralympic athletes.
Genesis will launch a cross-cultural collaborative international architectural competition to select the most innovative, sustainable design. Another competition to compose the most skilled cross-cultural construction team will enable this unique site’s Genesis Peace Hub to come to fruition.
Kumasi, Ghana will be built on land gifted to Genesis by the Royal Family of Ghana; Our Social Entrepreneurship Center will focus on arts and culture and environmental sustainability in service of well-being, healing and peacebuilding. (No direct medical services; a smaller site; part-time.)
OCEANIA
Nelson or Wellington, New Zealand will be the last site in our ecosystem to be developed and will be informed by the trajectory of the other sites above.