2014 : Cancellation of the 2014th edition http://kisumupeacefestival.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/kpf-announcement.pdf

In August 2011 the first Kisumu Peace Festival, with an audience of more than 20'000 people, took place.

As Kisumu is often at the centre of regional conflicts, either in reality or as portrayed in the media, the City is an excellent location for a peace festival, as the Prime Minister the Rt Hon. Raila Odinga pointed out in his opening speech during the festival 2011. The festival brings all communities together, including those outside the region, and marks a point of change in the thinking of both the Kisumu citizens and Kenyans.

Through a network of peace-orientated organisations working in the Kisumu region, we bring the individual actors together to organise this joint-venture activity.

The ‘Community Peace Project' (CPP) of the Kisumu based NGO ‘Support for Tropical Initiatives in Poverty Alleviation' (STIPA) together with the Association for Development Cooperation (AGEH), Civil Peace Service (zfd/CPS), the Department of Culture, the Kisumu Youth Football Association (KYFA), the Youth Reconciliation Forum (YOREf-K), the District Peace Committee (DPC) and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS) are the organisers of the festival 2012.

It is now our task to make the Kisumu Peace Festival 2012 an event, which will first and foremost help paving the way for a peaceful election in December 2012 or March 2013and an event, which the citizens in and around Kisumu look forward to attending in 2013 and the years to come.