Tentative Program Schedule for the Historic Second Global Summit on Indigenous Peacebuilding on 25 & 26 April 2026 in New York. This is a weekend, so come and spend the two days with us with joy.
To make the Summit relatable to one and all, we are dividing the two days into 4 Seasons namely
1 - Spring
2 - Summer
3 - Fall
4 - Winter
25 ARPIL 2026, 8.30 AM to 12 PM
DAY ONE - SPRING
Spring is birth - of peoples, law, peace, and responsibility.
25 APRIL 2026, 2 PM to 5.30 PM
DAY ONE - SUMMER
Summer is heat, confrontation, extraction - and courage.
26 APRIL 2026
DAY TWO - AUTUMN
Autumn is harvest - of food, wisdom, and nurturing life and relationships with earth and its worldmaking.
26 APRIL 2026
DAY TWO - WINTER
Winter is preparation, endurance, and vision.
To make the Summit relatable to one and all, we are dividing the two days into 4 Seasons namely
1 - Spring
2 - Summer
3 - Fall
4 - Winter
25 ARPIL 2026, 8.30 AM to 12 PM
DAY ONE - SPRING
Spring is birth - of peoples, law, peace, and responsibility.
- 8 am: Registration
- 8.30 am: Opening ceremony starts
Welcoming, Invoking, Blessing, Honoring, Igniting, Beginings - 9 am - 10 am: Inaugural Session
- 10 am - 10.30 am: Inaugurations of Weaving for Peace Exhibition, Group Photo and Tea/Coffee refreshments
- 10.30 am - 1 pm: Spring Session starts. Origin Stories, Remembering, Birthing, Igniting, Beginning, Continuing for today and the next seven generations
- 1 pm - 2 pm: Lunch & Wellness Break
25 APRIL 2026, 2 PM to 5.30 PM
DAY ONE - SUMMER
Summer is heat, confrontation, extraction - and courage.
- 2 PM - 3.30 PM: CONFLICT, TECHNOLOGY, RESISTANCE & PROTECTION OF LIFE
- War in Indigenous lands and biodiversity hotspots
- AI, militarization, surveillance vs indigenous ethics
- Indigenous data sovereignty
- Extractive Industries, critical minerals
- Indigenous women protecting land and life
- Protection rituals for defenders and negotiators
- 3.30 pm - 4 pm: Afternoon tea/coffee/refreshments/Wellness Break
- 4 pm - 5.30 pm: Honoring 100 Indigenous Peacebuilders & Book launch
Performance by Indigenous Community
26 APRIL 2026
DAY TWO - AUTUMN
Autumn is harvest - of food, wisdom, and nurturing life and relationships with earth and its worldmaking.
- 8 am: Registration
- 8.30 am: Yaikarol - Pena Indigenous Prayer Music by an Indigenous woman pena player, Penna Donna, joining live from Manipur, along with other relatives.
- 9 am to 10 am: Start of Panel
RESTORING, DIALOGUE, MEDIATING, NEGOTIATION, RECONCILATION, WOMEN WEAVING PEACE, HEALING & REPAIR- Arts and Science of Dialogue, Mediation, Negotiation and Reconciliation
- Indigenous Women, Peace Processes, Conflict and Environmental Peacebuilding
- Indigenous circular economies
- Food, medicine, healing and health sovereignty
- Weaving, beading, basketry as peace practices
- 10 am - 10.30 am: Tea/Coffee Wellness Break
- 10.30 am - 1 pm: Breakout rooms
- 1 pm - 2 pm: Lunch Break
26 APRIL 2026
DAY TWO - WINTER
Winter is preparation, endurance, and vision.
- 2 pm - 3 pm: Deliberation on
DIPLOMACY, TREATIES, PRESENT & CRAFTING A FUTURE PEACE ARCHITECTURE- Indigenous constitutions & nation-making
- Treaties as living law
- Peace diplomacy with states, corporations, groups
- Peace with and beyond Earth - nature, spirituality, space, universe
- Indigenous Mothers March for peace, Healing and Unity
- Online book and course curriculum on Indigenous Peacebuilding
- Calling on United Nations for a Peace Caucus and declare International Decade on Indigenous Peacebuilding
- 3 pm – 3.30 pm: Tea/Coffee/Refreshment & Wellness Break
Music by Council of Elders - 3.30 pm - 4 pm: Signing of Peace Treaties Ceremony
- 4.30 pm - 5.30 pm CLOSING CEREMONY: Statements, adoption of Mahicantuk Hudson River Declaration, launch of Indigenous Mother's March for Peace, Healing and Global Unity