Peacemakers are based in Birmingham and aim to equip people in all walks of life to deal peacefully and creatively with the inevitable conflicts that arise in life. They work with various communities to create peace through exploring, learning about and practising peace. They place particular emphasis on working with schools.

Peacemakers has been run by the West Midlands Quaker Peace Education Project since 1987 and is based at 41 Bull Street, Birmingham B4 6AF.

Their website is peacemakers.org.uk. It explains that:

Peace education, or education for peace, is the explicit teaching of those attitudes, skills and knowledge needed for peace…

The General Assembly of the United Nations defines a culture of peace as ‘all the values, attitudes and forms of behaviour that reflect respect for life, for human dignity and for all human rights, the rejection of violence in all its forms and commitment to the principles of freedom, justice, solidarity, tolerance and understanding between people’.

To build this culture of peace, the United Nations has called on every country to ‘ensure that children, from an early age, benefit from education to enable them to resolve any dispute peacefully and in a spirit of respect for human dignity and of tolerance’.

Peacemakers belongs to Peace Education Network.