Written by ChuChun Yu and Tiffany Jan. This article shares how the Lung Yingtai Cultural Foundation advances the thinking from peacebuilding in Taiwan amid rising geopolitical tension. Reframing peace highlights dialogue, education, and grassroots initiatives as practical tools. Peace emerges not as an abstraction but as an everyday civic practice sustaining resilience, empathy, and democratic life.
Written by Yingtai Lung. The article proposes that, in contrast to the preparation for war, Taiwan should prioritise resilience, communication, and goodwill diplomacy to prevent escalation, sustain trust, and protect society from panic, thereby making peace an active, practiced strategy.
Written by Roi Silbeberg. This essay traces an encounter between Taiwan’s White Terror memory and the unfolding devastation in Gaza to argue that peacebuilding must confront asymmetries of power, not obscure them. Moving across intergroup dialogue, identity formation, and international responsibility, it insists that silence sustains violence, and that ethical clarity, political engagement, and global accountability are conditions for any meaningful future.
