Wiyi Yani U Thangani Institute for First Nations Gender Justice, in collaboration with Create Justice held a concurrent session at the Women Deliver Conference in Narrm 2026. The session explored peacebuilding and First Nations Gender Justice.

An immersive, multidisciplinary session exploring First Nations women’s peacebuilding practices, asking: What is your love of Country? Together we will explore how we create peace within ourselves and between each other and the places we belong to. Peace is an experience, a state of being, and a responsibility we cultivate within the contexts we live, work and love. Australia exists within a conflict transformation paradigm requiring healing from historical and ongoing trauma. First Nations women already lead vast and complex work reweaving the social fabric, they are the backbone of communities and natural peacebuilders. Co-led by the Wiyi Yani U Thangani Institute for First Nations Gender Justice and Create Justice, this session demonstrates how women’s ancestral knowledges offer concrete alternatives to western approaches that manage symptoms rather than transform root causes of conflict. Through artistic immersion and storytelling, participants experience how authentic peacebuilding moves systems from division to unity, beginning with internal healing that radiates outward to create thriving communities. This is about elevating matriarchal practices that have sustained societies for 65,000+ years and can reshape structures globally.