Connect with bob the peacebuilder

When your campus or community needs connection, clarity, or a spark of hope, Bob is the person to call.

Today’s challenges — community cohesion, public safety, resource sharing — demand collaboration across differences. Bob the Peacebuilder helps communities build clarity, relationships, and momentum through strategy, hands-on workshops, and participatory art.

Connect with Bob

BUILD WITH BOB

  • Community Engagement Strategy (Macro-Level Clarity)

    Bring Bob in to help your team think strategically about your community — identifying leverage points, aligning stakeholders, and understanding the political, social, and economic dynamics shaping local change.

    Goal: Establish shared purpose and direction

    Perfect for: Faculty, staff, and student groups, leadership groups, civic coalition.

  • A Community Mapping and Peacebuilding Workshop (Skills Transfer)

    A hands-on mapping workshop where participants chart community relationships, resources, communication pathways, and power dynamics, seeing how their ecosystem actually works.

    Goal: Build shared understanding and useful tools for effective engagement.

    Perfect for: Classrooms, student orgs, nonprofit teams, civic leaders

  • Art as Action (The Declarations of Interdependence)

    Activate Declarations of Interdependence — a participatory art project where people sign the art if they agree “to end violence, end prejudice, and achieving respect for all.” This creates meaningful engagement, storytelling, and relational momentum.

    Goal: Turn insight into action through relational engagement and creative public activation.

    Perfect for: Campus events, conferences, community gatherings.

skills participants develop with bob the peacebuilder

Understand Peacebuilding Fundamentals: Gain foundational knowledge of peacebuilding as both a theoretical and practical field.

Explore Community Dynamics: Evaluate the way that power, relationships and resources are connected, and how that affects communities. 

Learn tools for change: Understand the power of art and communal events to connect, inspire, and mobilize communities.

Empower toward action: Bridge theory and practice by supporting participants to build concrete strategies for organizing and leading in their communities.

Strengthen Civic Literacy & Strategic Thinking: Understand how systems work, identify leverage points, and plan effective community action.

Connect with Bob

Bob Schlehuber is an organizer, educator, and artist with two decades of experience in peacebuilding and participatory art. He is the founder of Peacebuilding Connections and holds an M.A. in International Peace & Conflict Resolution from American University. Bob is based in Mexico City and works with communities across the world.

Message Bob for pricing, scheduling, and tailored programming for your campus or community.