Harnessing
Creativity
for Peace.
Mobilising Nigeria's creative economy as a strategic instrument for national transformation and sustainable development.
Culture Meets
Systems Change
The Creative Alliance for Peace (CAP) is a flagship platform launched in 2025 during the UN at 80 commemoration.
Grounded in a defining conviction: the creative economy is a civic, economic, and developmental force capable of strengthening national cohesion.
Peace & Security
Creative narratives that reduce conflict and build social cohesion across communities.
Human Rights
Artist-led campaigns that make rights visible, relatable, and defendable.
Sustainable Development
Culture as economic engine — formalising creators into bankable development actors.
Humanitarian Response
Storytelling that humanises displacement, crisis, and recovery.
Climate Action
Eco-fashion, digital media, and music that make climate urgency feel personal.
Governance & Rule of Law
Civic storytelling that builds trust between citizens and institutions.
Institutional Integrity.
A multi-layered governance framework ensuring accountability and creative freedom.
Advisory Council
Chaired by the UN Resident Coordinator, providing high-level strategic alignment and institutional legitimacy.
Steering Committee
Operational oversight co-led by WIPO Nigeria and UNDP Nigeria — ensuring accountability and partnership coordination.
Secretariat
Hosted by WIPO Nigeria as the Alliance's coordination hub, managing IP governance, stakeholder engagement, and administration.
Creative Council
Nigeria's leading voices across music, film, fashion, literature, and digital media shaping the creative agenda.
Creative Narratives for Normative Change
Art as advocacy. Story as policy.
Harnessing Nigeria's creative power — Afrobeats, Nollywood, fashion, gaming, and digital storytelling — to translate the UN's normative priorities into relatable, human-centred narratives that drive awareness, empathy, and action.
Sustainable Creative Enterprise
From gig economy to creative economy.
Building the business infrastructure that allows creatives to move from project-to-project survival to scalable, sustainable enterprises. Bridging Development, Governance, and Peace through economic opportunity.
2026: The Year We Scale
Creative Workforce
Creatives upskilled through webinars, masterclasses, residencies, and IP training.
Campaign Reach
Through music, film, and advocacy campaigns co-branded with UN Women, UNESCO, and WIPO.
Normative Campaigns
Creative campaigns delivered across all six UN normative areas.
International Creative
Learning Tour
A curated delegation of CAP leaders and policymakers undertakings a strategic study of successful global creative economies.
Alliance Journal.
CAP Inaugurated at UN@80
The Alliance was formally inaugurated convening over 300 high-level policymakers and artists, generating 500k+ media impressions.
Music & Film Advocacy
Expanding the reach of our flagship campaign across all six normative areas.
Creative Workforce Dev
Expanding the reach of our flagship campaign across all six normative areas.
Learning Tour Confirmation
Expanding the reach of our flagship campaign across all six normative areas.
"Peace cannot thrive without culture — and culture cannot grow without protection of creative rights."
Join the Alliance.
Volunteer
Contribute your creative skills to our mission.
Partner
Institutional collaboration for systems change.