We're proud to share some news that's been a long time coming: the UNESCO Center for Peace is launching its own International Publishing House.
It's hard to overstate how much this means to us. For years, the Center has worked in education, peacebuilding, cultural preservation, and historical scholarship, and along the way, we kept running into the same realization. So many important stories, so much research, so many voices that deserved a wider audience, simply didn't have a place to go. This is our answer to that. Under the leadership of President Guy Djoken, we're building a real home for the authors, researchers, educators, governments, universities, museums, and humanitarian organizations whose work helps make the world a little more peaceful and a little better understood.
To lead this, President Djoken has turned to someone who has spent years thinking about exactly these questions: Deputy Director, Ambassador Emmett Imani, who will build and direct the Center's new Global Publishing Program from the ground up. That means international partnerships, editorial standards, global outreach, the whole foundation of what we hope becomes a publishing house people genuinely trust.
What Will We Publish?
Books, academic research, policy papers, educational materials, conference proceedings, historical archives, biographies, cultural heritage collections, even children's educational books. The common thread running through all of it isn't genre or format. It's whether a work helps people understand each other a little better, whether it has something real to say about dignity, dialogue, or progress.
We'll be publishing under our own official ISBN registration, which means qualified authors and institutions will have a genuine, internationally recognized home for their work, one built specifically around education and peace rather than profit margins. Every book that carries our name will carry that responsibility too.
"The written word has always been one of humanity's most powerful instruments for preserving history, educating future generations, and building bridges between cultures. Our goal is to create a publishing platform where important ideas are preserved, diverse voices are heard, and knowledge becomes a tool for peace rather than division. We welcome partnerships with governments, universities, research institutes, museums, international organizations, and distinguished authors from every region of the world."
Who We'd Love to Hear From
- National governments and ministries of education, culture, foreign affairs, and heritage
- Universities, colleges, and academic research institutions
- International organizations and intergovernmental agencies
- Museums, archives, and libraries
- Cultural heritage organizations
- Non-governmental organizations and humanitarian institutions
- Think tanks and policy institutes
- Peacebuilding organizations
- Independent researchers, historians, educators, and qualified authors
We're especially drawn to projects with real weight behind them: national histories, cultural preservation work, educational curricula, multilingual editions, diplomatic studies, the kind of writing that doesn't just describe a challenge but honors the people living through it.
If we're honest, this is bigger to us than just "starting a publishing house." It's a statement about something we've believed for a long time: that education is one of the truest foundations for peace we have. When you bring together writers and institutions from completely different cultures and disciplines, something good happens. You start building a library that doesn't belong to one country or one moment in time. It belongs to whoever comes looking for it, now and decades from now.
If you're an author or organization who thinks your work might belong here, we genuinely want to talk. Reach out, tell us what you're working on, and let's see what we can build together.
Because in the end, that's the whole idea. Through knowledge, through dialogue, through education, we can help build a more peaceful world, one book, one paper, one shared story at a time.