“It’s time for a new narrative – about peace building and peace builders. We tell the stories of these pioneering people of hope, courage and resilience. And it’s time for learning new skills  so we have the know-how to eliminate the violence in our precious world, we are doing this through the Peaceful Schools movement.”

Anna Lubelska, BSc. MSc. FRSA is the initiator of The Peace Building charity and Chair of Trustees.
You can contact Anna on anna@thepeacebuilding.org.uk

Anna is motivated by the horrendous wartime experiences of her Polish family. Touched very personally by the devastation of war; she has been active in peace work all her adult life. She was awarded the Medal of Gratitude by the European Solidarity Centre for her international work in the 1980s supporting the movement for freedom in Poland.  Solidarnosc book

Anna is the Founder of the global Peaceful Schools Movement – helping schools to create peace within and beyond the student community.Her book, ‘How to be a Peaceful School’, was published in 2018, and she now presents awards to participating schools; celebrating projects that effectively promote peace – both conceptually and practically. Her next step in the journey towards a peaceful world will be the establishment of The Peace Building in London.  It will be a global centre of excellence in peace education. In the meantime – we have this virtual peace museum!

Anna’s career was in local government and the charity sector. She worked for the National Children’s Bureau, The Association of London Government and local authorities in London and in other parts of England, as well as setting up charities and organisations and being the trustee of several charities.  Since retiring, Anna has set up Spiritual England, become an Ordained Interfaith Minister working as a hospice chaplain as well as holding funerals and memorial services including one at the Treblinka Extermination Camp in Poland, for her grandmother Maria Lubelska who was murdered there during WW2.