Cornerstone Churches

Locally Rooted. Globally Connected. Faith-Led for Peace.

The Cornerstone Churches, St Mary’s Warwick, St John’s Edinburgh, and Christ Church Winchester, anchor the Global Centre for Peacebuilding & Business in a living tradition of Christian peacebuilding.

They play a central role in shaping and sustaining a movement committed to reconciliation in conflict-affected communities worldwide.

Through these churches, peacebuilding becomes both locally rooted in everyday Christian practice and globally connected to communities experiencing resource-related conflict. They help ground GCPB’s mission in worship, ministry, and discipleship.

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A Shared Liturgy and Practice for Peace

The Cornerstone Churches are developing a shared liturgy and practice for peace, drawing on a theology of Difference, the belief that diversity, disagreement, and division can be engaged constructively and redemptively.

This emerging liturgical tradition equips congregations to:

embody Christian peacebuilding in local ministry
engage faithfully with conflict and division
cultivate habits of listening, patience, and reconciliation

Building a Sustained Discipline of Peacebuilding

The Cornerstone Churches help nurture a long-term discipline within the wider Church to support peacebuilding efforts. They create pathways connecting local congregations with faith communities directly affected by conflict, ensuring that:

prayer and solidarity reach across borders
peacebuilding is held within the daily life of the Church
global partnerships are sustained over time

Empowering Local Faith Leaders

Crucially, the Cornerstone Churches serve as platforms to empower faith leaders in conflict-affected regions.

Through accompaniment, shared learning, and practical collaboration, they support leaders in developing context-specific peace ministries while remaining aligned with GCPB’s wider mission and the Church’s calling as a credible, trusted peacebuilding actor.

Our current programmes

Learn more of the GCPB’s approaches in different countries:

Democratic Republic of the Congo

The Peace Huts – spaces bringing together key stakeholders to address root causes of conflicts.

The peace Clubs initiative – an interfaith, multi-level peacebuilding programme.

Courageous Conversations South Africa – a trusted platform tackling the country’s most challenging issues related to mining, equity, and social cohesion.

Courageous Conversations Madagascar – building a trusted platform for dialogue around the country’s most challenging issues related to mining, equity, and social cohesion.

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