PeaceGeneration Indonesia (PeaceGen) has been a social enterprise dedicated to advocating for Peace Education since 2007. For over 15 years, PeaceGen has focused on Training in Peace Education Development, Peace Learning Media Development, and Peace Message Advocacy. Through creative and enjoyable media, we collaborate with Teachers, Educators, and Youth as agents of change to create a peaceful and inclusive society.

Vision: A culture of peace becomes a lifestyle and appealing value to be learned and practiced by the younger generation.

Mission: To innovate and develop creative media to assist educators in fostering understanding and providing experiences to the younger generation about the value of peace in fun and meaningful ways.

More than 80% of Indonesians do not have meaningful relationships with people of other religions. (LSI, 2022).

Violence: 41% of students in Indonesia have experienced bullying cases among students, including incidents in Cilacap and Banyuwangi. (UNICEF, 2020).

Intolerance: Conflicts between religious communities, Muslims and Christians, occurred in Ambon and Poso from 1998 to 2001 (Human Rights Watch, 2002).

Extremism: More than 2,000 people have joined violent extremist organizations. (LSI, 2022).

Prejudice can be eliminated through contact and equality between majority and minority groups in efforts to achieve common goals. The impact of this contact will be enhanced if the actions are supported by prevailing norms, laws, and local wisdom and if they lead to a shared understanding of common interests and humanity between the two groups.

-Gordon W. Allport, The Nature of Prejudice (1954)

The birth of PeaceGen began with a meeting between Irfan Amalee and Eric Lincoln in 2006. At that time, Eric was an English teacher at the Mizan Publishing office, where Irfan worked. Irfan was one of Eric's students. Amidst English learning sessions, Eric asked his students about world politics. Irfan responded that America, Eric's home country, was the root of various issues. At that moment, Eric regarded Irfan as a Taliban member.

Starting from the meeting, Irfan and Eric began discussing many things and getting to know each other. Eventually, Eric discovered that Irfan was not as he had imagined. Likewise, the reverse was true. The prejudices between Irfan and Eric were gone as they endeavored to understand and appreciate each other. Since then, Irfan and Eric have been discussing more frequently, eventually producing a work known as the 12 Basic Peace Values.

Eventually, Irfan and Eric became friends and established PeaceGeneration Indonesia in 2007 to spread the values of peace with the 12 Basic Peace Values module.