Our vision
A world at peace can only be achieved through cooperation. In a world where global challenges are evolving faster than ever, from geopolitical shifts to technological disruptions and climate change, effective governance is essential to ensuring lasting peace, stability, and prosperity for all.
Our purpose
To reinvent diplomacy in a changing world.
Our mission
The Forum is a platform to originate, shape & share multi-actor responses towards global peace & sustainable prosperity. By convening key decision-makers and fostering collaboration between governments, international organizations, businesses, and civil society, we ensure that diplomacy is not just discussed but reinvented to meet the demands of a changing world.
Our values
At the heart of our work are the values that define us:
- Globally inclusive – Bridging North-South and East-West divides in global governance.
- Multi-actor Collaboration – Engaging diverse stakeholders to create holistic solutions.
- Open to Dialogue – Creating a space where differing views can be confronted constructively.
- Action-oriented – Ensuring that discussions lead to real-world impact.
- Independent – Upholding objectivity and credibility in all our initiatives.
Our pillars
PPF delivers on its mission through three core pillars:
- Dialogue Platform: Through our annual Forum, roundtables, and private discussions, we convene key stakeholders to engage on hard topics, advance dialogues, and identify governance solutions where they are most needed.
- Policy Incubation: For issues not adequately addressed in global governance, we develop initiatives, build coalitions, drive consensus, and amplify efforts to create lasting policy change.
- Projects: We leverage our global community to mentor local actors and accelerate on-the-ground projects, ensuring that dialogues are grounded in real-world action and tangible outcomes. By reinventing diplomacy in a changing world, the Paris Peace Forum drives forward better governance for a world at peace.

Forum history
Frequently asked questions
A multilateral initiative: The idea was initiated in 2017 by the President of the French Republic, Emmanuel Macron, during his speech at the Ambassadors’ Conference where he called for the need to take concrete steps to strengthen multilateralism and preserve peace.
A simple observation: The international system abounds with contradictions. International collaboration is increasingly difficult. However, the challenges the world faces – pandemics, climate change, terrorism, migration, cyber insecurity, and other global issues – require a collective response.
A concrete objective: To bridge the international coordination gap by supporting and complementing existing systems and picking up the slack when these institutions cannot act or when the solutions proposed are inadequate.
An independent organization: Although the idea was initiated by the President of the French Republic, the Forum is led by a hybrid that ensures the independence of this multilateral initiative in its missions and financing.
An association under the law of 1901: The Forum is a non-profit association established under French Law ‘loi 1901’ recognized as a public charity. It is governed by 3 international bodies and financed by numerous partners around the world.
The General Assembly decides the Association’s main legal and budgetary orientations, approves its annual accounts, and amends its Bylaws. It includes all members of the Association, both Founding Members and Ordinary Members.
The Executive Committee makes all the decisions regarding the activities of the Association and in particular the organization of its annual event. It shapes the program, authorizes partnership agreements, and decides on new memberships. It gathers the ten
Founding Members, as well as Open Society Foundations, which joined in March 2022.
The Steering Committee provides the Executive Committee with recommendations on the strategic orientations of the Association and all its activities, including the organization of the annual Paris Peace Forum event. It gathers approximately fifteen personalities from all continents who are appointed for three years.
The Circle of Partners brings together the Forum’s public and private benefactors, international organizations and media partners. They support the Forum and make recommendations on its strategic orientations.

Since 2018, the Paris Peace Forum is the place where heads of state and international organizations work hand in hand with civil society and the private sector to build new forms of collective action. Throughout the year, the Forum put the spotlight on those who implement concrete actions by advancing worldwide governance projects. The idea is not only to highlight projects but to strengthen and support them in their implementation and development.
An annual event: Each year in Paris, in November, the Forum gathers collective action stakeholders, both states and non-state actors, around global governance solutions.
The Forum addresses peace through global coordination and cooperation: Lasting peace will only be achieved through adapted and effective global coordination to address current issues.
The Forum does not focus on geopolitical issues nor conflicts: Peace is more than the simple suspension of war and it is made up of all the solutions that help reduce international tensions:
- Cooperation to mitigate resource scarcity.
- International institutions to channel power rivalries and better administer global public goods.
- Regulation to address new abuses of power and inequality exacerbated by globalization.
- Intergenerational bridges and gender equality to create more peaceful societies.
The Forum considers that state institutions and non-state organizations are interdependent: International and regional multilateral organizations with universal membership have legitimate mandates for the creation of rules and mechanisms to solve global problems.
The Forum supports and complements existing systems: It picks up the slack when these institutions cannot act or when the solutions proposed are inadequate, to reinforce their action and push forward the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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The Forum is supported by a diversity of global governance actors: States and multilateral organizations, but also NGOs, companies, development agencies, foundations, philanthropies, religious groups, associations, think tanks, universities, and civil society at large.
These partners represent numerous benefactors, institutions, and several medias renewed each year. They make recommendations on the Forum’s strategic orientations.
The official languages of the Forum are English and French.
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