Introduction: When peace becomes strategy In November 2025, as conflicts raged across multiple continents, the small Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan offered the world something unprecedented: a 16-day Global Peace Prayer Festival that brought together more than 20,000 participants from over 50 nations.
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