"Peace cannot be kept by force,
it can only be achieved by understanding"

                                         - Albert Einstein  
 

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Our Mission

 

Breaking Bread Movement contributes to UN Sustainable Development Goal 16:

Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions by turning shared public meals into

everyday acts of dialogue, storytelling and peace-building.

Through Picnics for Peace, Postcards for Peace, Stories for Peace and a

growing Peace Map, the movement helps people carry connection beyond the

gathering and into their communities.

 

We gather around food, write for peace, share stories and map everyday acts

of connection.

 

What We Believe

 

Peace is not only negotiated in formal rooms or protected by institutions. It is also

practised in everyday places: at picnic benches, on beaches, in parks, libraries,

community gardens and civic spaces.

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Breaking Bread Movement starts from a simple belief: when people sit together,

share food and listen with curiosity, something shifts. Stories emerge.

Assumptions soften. Strangers become neighbours.

Difference becomes something we can meet, rather than something we retreat from.

The picnic is the beginning but the movement grows through what travels beyond

the table.

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Difference becomes something we meet, rather than something we retreat from.

In a world often divided by race, background, and belief, our tables are a quiet defiance against prejudice, a place where bias is challenged through the simple act of listening.

 

We believe peace requires active anti-racism.

We cannot build a culture of peace without consciously creating spaces

that heal where we examine our bias, and celebrate the dignity of every individual.

 

We affirm that all peoples and individuals constitute one human family,

rich in diversity... Preservation and promotion of tolerance,

pluralism and respect for diversity can produce more inclusive societies.”

-  UN Durban Declaration against Racism (2001)

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We are living in a time of fracture. Wars are unfolding on multiple continents.

Communities that once lived side by side are turning against each other.

Borders that were once passages are becoming walls.

The news arrives as an unrelenting stream of conflict, fear, and division,

and it is having a measurable effect on the human nervous system, on mental health,

on the capacity for empathy, and on people's basic sense of safety in the world.

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