The International Cooperative Alliance announced the theme for the 2026 International Day of Cooperatives (CoopsDay) as Co-operatives for a Peaceful World. 

The theme serves not only as a reflection of the co-operative model’s unique capacity to bring people together, strengthen social cohesion, and advance peaceful, inclusive societies, but also as a collective call from the global co-operative movement to actively contribute to peace. In this spirit, the theme highlights the role of cooperatives as bridge-builders, bringing communities together, fostering dialogue, and strengthening recovery and resilience in an increasingly fragmented world.

The role of co-operatives is underlined in the 2019 ICA Declaration on Positive Peace through Cooperatives, which calls on the co-operative movement to deepen its commitment and strengthen actions that advance peaceful and inclusive societies. The theme also resonates strongly with Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 16 (Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions), and the ICA and COPAC are developing a policy brief to highlight cooperatives' contributions to peacebuilding as part of the IYC2025 SDG policy brief series.

Click to find out more about International Day of Co-operatives and download the 2026 logos. The communications kit will be available soon.

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