Whoever wants to build peace must know what peace means. In 2024 and 2025, the Board of Trustees of schwelle Foundation developed two papers in long discussion processes that lay out the foundation's understanding of peace and its peace policy in fundamental terms:

"Peace Policy Challenges – Non-Violence in Times of Conflict and War" – a paper devoted to the question of how our commitment to non-violence can endure when the world is shaken by wars and conflicts. Peace Policy Challenges

"Understanding of Peace of schwelle Foundation " – a paper that describes the foundation's comprehensive concept of peace: peace as a universal value that goes far beyond the silencing of the guns; peace as an attitude and a task at the personal, societal and political levels.  Understanding of Peace