Greenland Peace Mission – Where Land Is Free   

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When land is not a commodity, but a shared heritage that people care for together, the way we interact with each other also changes. In Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland), land is not for sale; it belongs to itself, the Earth. And where people live, they care for that place from generation to generation. This requires a culture of coordination, trust, and responsibility—not ownership and competition. Not fences, but hedges: boundaries that connect instead of separating, and that invite discussion about how everyone manages their own piece as a steward. Knowing that it is always about something larger than the individual. This is how peace arises, not as a goal in itself, but as the natural outcome of collective care for the Earth and for each other.

Four steps on learning and doing peace

1. Can we also send peace scouts?

This spring, Henry will travel to Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland) as a peace scout . They will co-create peace by learning peace together from the people who have lived for generations in connection with the land, the ice, and the sea. On April 22nd—Earth Day —Henry will exchange a pilgrim’s stick from his own indigenous roots in Twente with a pilgrim’s stick from Greenland.

A simple gesture. Like a staff of connection between cultures that live with the Earth. A sign that peace begins with connection and encounter. Do you also feel that we should invest more in peace?

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2. Being Peace and Learning Peace

The journey is about being at peace and learning about peace. From people who have lived for generations in connection with land, nature, and community.

The exchange of pilgrim staffs is a sign of encounter between peoples. The staff we receive in  Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland) will then travel back to the Netherlands and depart on April 25th for the Peacewalk to Jerusalem, which puts dialogue, reconciliation, and peace into practice – as a link in shaping peace differently.

A symbol passed from person to person. The question of the Peacewalk is simple: Can we learn peace?

Do you feel like you want to do something?
Then make the Greenland staff’s journey on the Peacewalk possible and support the route here.

 

3. What’s in it for us? What are we going to do?

The Greenland trip is part of a larger movement to share land ownership. Before that trip, Henry will visit three locations in the Netherlands in his campervan:

  • Home port in Zeewolde
  • De Veldhof Nursery in Joppa
  • The Sophia’s Garden in Oosterhout

These are places where people work together to reclaim land—so that land becomes a place of community again, rather than a place of ownership. Greenland lives this example, and we can learn from it:
How do we care for the Earth together?
How do we build peace and ensure steward-owned land ownership?

These places aren’t projects. They’re classrooms for peace.

Anne-Marie Voorhoeve supports this mission with her knowledge. She brings together diverse groups from around the world to explore what can be done differently. Individual and collective learning experiences that matter. She received the Luxembourg Peace Prize from the Schengen Peace Foundation and the World Peace Forum. Her starting point is that everything is interconnected. Weaving stories, co-creating, seeing patterns, daring to ask questions, and acknowledging not-knowing… these are all part of the learning journey of stewardship for the Earth and all life.

Help the Earth Care movement grow—locally and globally.
Your contribution helps—click here.

4. Are you traveling/participating?

To make this peace mission possible, we need €15,000 for:

  • travel and accommodation costs to Greenland for 2 people
  • organization of the Earth Day ceremony in Greenland
  • camper tour along Dutch community sites to free up land with the lessons of Greenland
  • media and documentation to reach a wide audience, including website development and maintenance
  • Support for the Peacewalk.

Every contribution, big or small, helps make this journey – your journey to peace – a reality.

Peace isn’t an idea.
Peace is something we practice together.

 

DONATE HERE FOR THIS FIRST PEACE MISSION TO GREENLAND

 

Supported by

Mother Earth and . . .

  • KIVA Wisdom Keepers / Stories of Wisdom
  • Mother Earth Delegation of United Original Nations
  • The Hague Center for Global Governance, Innovation and Emergence
  • Foreground Foundation
  • Foundation Ground of Existence
  • Land Management Foundation
  • Four Worlds Institute
  • Lenteland