Peace & Community
Discover what it means to build peace, celebrate diversity, and take meaningful action to make a positive impact in your community and beyond.
Postcards from home
"An interactive place where we share and learn about ourselves, starting from our origins.
By reflecting on where we come from, presently, historically, emotionally or even ancestrally, we can open up to our global community, and move closer together in understanding.
Participants will upload a picture, and their reflection, as part of shared community learning."
YUNGA Gender Equality Challenge
How much do you really know about gender equality - and are you sure your community is as fair as you think? Think you’re not influenced by stereotypes? Think again. Take our Gender Equality Quiz, step into the role of a YUNGA researcher to uncover the hidden gender norms shaping everyday life around you, and take real steps to challenge them. It’s your chance to join the Youth and the UNITED NATIONS Global Alliance – YUNGA - and become a changemaker in your local community!
Democratic Values – Can You Remember What Matters?
A fast-paced Kim's game where Scouts test their memory and reflect on core democratic values.
Participants discover how essential societal principles can easily be forgotten or disappear if we fail to actively protect them.
Peace Circle!
What if one conversation could spark change in your community? This JOTA-JOTI, become a peacebuilder! Bring together friends, family, fellow Scouts or neighbours, host your own Peace Circle, and explore what a peaceful and inclusive world could look like where you live. Guided by the United Nations’ Hear Us. Act Now for a Peaceful World Peace Circle toolkit, you’ll listen to different perspectives, turn challenges into practical ideas and share your group’s peace commitment on our global JOTA-JOTI Padlet wall. Your circle can start small—but its impact can reach far beyond it.
Introduction to Violence Prevention
We know that preventing violence may seem overwhelming or even impossible. That's why this workshop will introduce you to the Health Approach to Violence Prevention and will help you connect with your own capacity to interrupt cycles of violence and generate new possibilities of peace. This session is offered by the United Religions Initiative, a global grassroots network of interfaith activists leading initiatives of peace, justice and healing around the world.
Peace video postcard
This year, we’re inviting young Scouts from around the world to share their story through a new part of JOTA-JOTI Live: Peace Video Postcards.
We want to showcase the many ways young people experience Scouting around the world — the activities you do, the traditions and culture that make your Scout community unique, and the ways you contribute to building peaceful and inclusive communities.
Virtual Museum Tour
Delve into history, art, and culture from around the globe in a thrilling virtual museum tour! Unearth treasures, discover secrets, and share your knowledge with fellow Scouts!
Influencer-for-a-day – Can you “sell” a democratic message
How can social media be used as a platform for democratic debate, education and activism?
In this simple session, you will create a post or video that conveys an important democratic message, and discover how social media can influence society and politics.
In addition, you'll also learn to formulate a clear message, and also to understand that different platforms convey messages differently.
Pictionary: Democracy Edition
In this fast-paced drawing game, participants convey key democratic values, concepts, and symbols without using words or numbers.
It’s a fun, interactive way to strengthen understanding of democracy, promote teamwork, and explore how visual communication shapes civic life.
Past Sessions
If you missed a Live Session you can click on the event and use the button to watch the recording.
The International Space Station as a Peaceful and Inclusive World
Join three time International Space Station (ISS) resident, Scoutmaster, and Eagle Scout Astronaut Mike Fossum and Eagle Scout and Naval PhD Candidate JD Shaw as they explore how people from different nations, cultures, and backgrounds can work together toward a common purpose, even when their countries may have significant differences on Earth.
Astronaut Mike Fossum is a veteran of three space flights with more than 194 days in space and more than 48 hours in seven spacewalks during his 19 years as an astronaut. His space missions included:
- STS-121 (July 2006): Flew aboard Space Shuttle Discovery as a mission specialist to deliver supplies and equipment to the ISS (performing 3 spacewalks).
- STS-124 (May/June 2008): Flew aboard Space Shuttle Discovery as a mission specialist to deliver the Japanese Kibo laboratory module to the ISS.
- Expedition 28 / Expedition 29 (June–November 2011): Launched via a Russian Soyuz TMA-02M spacecraft, serving as a flight engineer for Expedition 28 and as the Commander of Expedition 29.
During his last mission in 2011, Fossum participated in JOTA from space while serving as the Commander of the International Space Station!
Serving as history's largest peacetime scientific collaboration, uniting global adversaries to work toward common human goals, the ISS is jointly operated by five space agencies including NASA, (National Aeronautics and Space Administration of the United States), Roscosmos (State Space Corporation for Space Activities) representing Russia, ESA (European Space Agency) representing multiple European nations, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) representing Japan and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) representing Canada. In addition, 15 countries collaborate on projects on the ISS. Learn more about the ISS on this YouTube video, Life in Space: the Space Race.
Human Rights in the Digital World: Creating Peaceful and Inclusive Digital Spaces
How can Scouts help make digital spaces safer, more respectful and inclusive? In this interactive session with the UN Human Rights Office, Scouts will explore how digital technologies can enable human rights, the risks they can pose, and the everyday actions young people can take to uphold human rights online.