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Our Story

Founded in 2021 by James Sternlicht, The Peace Department was created to bridge the gap between intention and action in sustainable development. Designed as a dot-connector and orchestrator, our mission is to unite cutting-edge solutions and diverse sectors in hyper-coordinated efforts that build a more resilient, equitable, and peaceful future.

We live in a time of profound global challenges—environmental degradation, inequitable development, and systemic fragility. Achieving the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Paris Accord targets requires trillions in investment, yet progress is stalled by a lack of coordination across sectors. The Peace Department exists to correct these inefficiencies by bringing together communities, innovators, and decision-makers to drive systems-level impact.
From day one, we have prioritized place-based, community-driven solutions, guided by our simple yet powerful theory of change.
These interventions serve as replicable models, designed to scale and catalyze the systemic change needed to address today’s interconnected crises.
The Peace Department exists to operationalize this bold vision. By leveraging deep networks across business, impact investing, public policy, science, government, faith, and philanthropy, we unite powerful actors to pursue the art of the possible—building a sustainable and omniconsiderate future that benefits all of humanity and our shared planet.