Kintsugi-Peace Making

Kintsugi-Peace Making

Kintsugi-Peace Making is a collaborative initiative between the Fujimura Institute at IAMCultureCare and Academy Kintsugi, founded by Haejin and Makoto Fujimura. Drawing on the ancient Japanese art of mending broken pottery with gold, Kintsugi-Peace Making offers a powerful metaphor and method for restoring what is fractured — whether personal, communal, or cultural.

Unlike peacekeeping, which seeks to avoid conflict, Kintsugi-Peace Making embraces brokenness as the very site of new creation. Through art, storytelling, and contemplative making, this initiative invites participants to behold wounds, not to erase them, but to transfigure them with courage and grace.

Since its founding in 2021, Academy Kintsugi has collaborated with the Fujimura Institute to bring this experience to hundreds of people across seven countries — including survivors of human trafficking, members of the UK Parliament, victims of intergenerational injustice, university classrooms, and even to the late Pope Francis. Wherever it is shared, the message of Kintsugi-Peace Making fosters empathy, deep listening, and moral imagination.

Together, IAMCultureCare and Academy Kintsugi are cultivating a global community committed to healing the fractures of our time — not by hiding them, but by making them sites of luminous transformation.