2nd International Peace Summit
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The Notre Dame International Peace and Harmony Club is organising the second edition of the International Peace Summit, opening at Notre Dame College, Dhaka on 6 November 2026 and closing the following evening. This edition is built around a single theme, Governing Data, Guarding Privacy, Guaranteeing Peace, treated less as a slogan than as a genuine fault line: how far a state's claim over information can be allowed to run before it collides with what a citizen is owed in protection from it.
Four segments carry the weight of that question directly. Delegates in the Oligarch's Conclave spend the day listening to rival candidates for the leadership of a fictional state, and have to separate what a speech says from what it is quietly built to conceal. A dispute drawn from international law is argued before a bench in the Moot Court, where the two sides are assigned rather than chosen and neither is permitted to argue from personal conviction. Elsewhere, three-member teams walk into the Peace Proposal Roundtable with nothing beyond an agenda, and have until the session ends to turn disagreement into a document. Diplomats' Dilemma asks for the same discipline at a smaller scale: a role, a country, and a crisis are handed over together, and the response has to be spoken before there is time to second-guess it.
A second layer of segments works the same territory from a different angle. An IR quiz narrows a written round down to a handful of finalists for a buzzer round decided on reflex as much as recall, while Operation Atlas rewards whoever reads a historical clue fastest and pins it to the correct point on a map before a rival claims it first. Writers, photographers, and young artists are given room of their own: an essay competition scored on argument rather than length, a children's art competition set aside for its youngest entrants, a literary segment carrying the name The Echoes of Our Inner Voice, and Lensed Tales, in which a photograph and a caption of no more than three lines have to do what an argument would otherwise need paragraphs to do. Poster Palooza and the Peace Summit Project Display take the same questions into physical form, printed panels and constructed models rather than prose. A documentary segment is judged twice, once on the finished film and again on how well its maker can defend it in front of an audience. Two further segments, Screenricks and Popcorn Plato, are lighter by design, a trivia round built on film and television and a formal debate staged over a subject nobody in the room is expected to take personally, proof that a segment need not be solemn to be exacting.
The summit's plenary sessions are expected to seat ambassadors and senior diplomats from foreign missions to Bangladesh alongside policymakers from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and representatives from Save the Children Bangladesh, a presence meant to place the same questions being argued in committee rooms in front of people who work with them outside a summit.
Participation is organised across three formats. Some segments run entirely online, prompts released in advance and work returned by email or form before the event begins. Others are prepared at home, posters, projects, and written or visual submissions among them, and brought to campus only for judging or display. The rest unfolds live across the two days. Most segments are divided by Junior, Secondary, and Higher Secondary level, alongside a separate competition reserved for younger children. Solo registration is set at BDT 300, team registration at BDT 400, with further scheduling and segment instructions to follow closer to the event.
Register now on https://ips.ndiphc.org
Register as a Campus Ambassador on https://ips.ndiphc.org/ca
Event details:
Dates: 6–7 November 2026
Venue: Notre Dame College, Dhaka
Registration: BDT 300 (Solo) / BDT 400 (Team)
For more information, keep an eye on our event page.
Four segments carry the weight of that question directly. Delegates in the Oligarch's Conclave spend the day listening to rival candidates for the leadership of a fictional state, and have to separate what a speech says from what it is quietly built to conceal. A dispute drawn from international law is argued before a bench in the Moot Court, where the two sides are assigned rather than chosen and neither is permitted to argue from personal conviction. Elsewhere, three-member teams walk into the Peace Proposal Roundtable with nothing beyond an agenda, and have until the session ends to turn disagreement into a document. Diplomats' Dilemma asks for the same discipline at a smaller scale: a role, a country, and a crisis are handed over together, and the response has to be spoken before there is time to second-guess it.
A second layer of segments works the same territory from a different angle. An IR quiz narrows a written round down to a handful of finalists for a buzzer round decided on reflex as much as recall, while Operation Atlas rewards whoever reads a historical clue fastest and pins it to the correct point on a map before a rival claims it first. Writers, photographers, and young artists are given room of their own: an essay competition scored on argument rather than length, a children's art competition set aside for its youngest entrants, a literary segment carrying the name The Echoes of Our Inner Voice, and Lensed Tales, in which a photograph and a caption of no more than three lines have to do what an argument would otherwise need paragraphs to do. Poster Palooza and the Peace Summit Project Display take the same questions into physical form, printed panels and constructed models rather than prose. A documentary segment is judged twice, once on the finished film and again on how well its maker can defend it in front of an audience. Two further segments, Screenricks and Popcorn Plato, are lighter by design, a trivia round built on film and television and a formal debate staged over a subject nobody in the room is expected to take personally, proof that a segment need not be solemn to be exacting.
The summit's plenary sessions are expected to seat ambassadors and senior diplomats from foreign missions to Bangladesh alongside policymakers from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and representatives from Save the Children Bangladesh, a presence meant to place the same questions being argued in committee rooms in front of people who work with them outside a summit.
Participation is organised across three formats. Some segments run entirely online, prompts released in advance and work returned by email or form before the event begins. Others are prepared at home, posters, projects, and written or visual submissions among them, and brought to campus only for judging or display. The rest unfolds live across the two days. Most segments are divided by Junior, Secondary, and Higher Secondary level, alongside a separate competition reserved for younger children. Solo registration is set at BDT 300, team registration at BDT 400, with further scheduling and segment instructions to follow closer to the event.
Register now on https://ips.ndiphc.org
Register as a Campus Ambassador on https://ips.ndiphc.org/ca
Event details:
Dates: 6–7 November 2026
Venue: Notre Dame College, Dhaka
Registration: BDT 300 (Solo) / BDT 400 (Team)
For more information, keep an eye on our event page.
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Notre Dame College, Toyenbee Circular Rd, Motijheel, 1100 Dhaka, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh
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