In a moment when violence, extortion, and insecurity continue to affect much of the national territory, the National Dialogue for Peace has issued a call to citizens, religious leaders, and authorities to carry out concrete actions this Sunday, November 23, that help restore peace in Mexico.
In its statement dated November 10, 2025, titled “Letter: For a Mexico in Peace – Call to Walk and Converse for Peace”, the Dialogue invites a “citizen awakening” in the face of the serious situation facing numerous regions of the country. The text highlights the need to “undertake to recover the peace of the country this Sunday, November 23” through community actions such as walks, celebrations, discussion forums, family and youth gatherings, prayers for the disappeared in public squares and parishes, all in synergy with the Episcopal Dimension for Peace.
On the same November 23, the National Dialogue disseminated a second document titled “For a MEXICO in PEACE”, in which, from the pain for the victims and the situation of young people, it articulates a series of demands and commitments:
– We bet on a peace for the entire country, beyond political or partisan contingencies.
– A peace built on broad, transparent, and sustained consensus.
– A peace that recognizes the structures of violence that permeate the territory, fueled by impunity, corruption, and complicity.
– A peace that guarantees the right to live in Mexico and raise children without having to be brave to do so.
– We reject violence and call for action.
The statement insists that citizens join in, from the local level (neighborhood, family, church, school), to the 14 Actions of an Organized Civil Society to build peace:
- Promote support for victims of violence.
- Generate inter-institutional dialogue spaces for building peace.
- Promote mental health processes in families and communities.
- Promote peace education and better coexistence in schools.
- Recover public spaces and community organization.
- Promote labor agreements that improve working and living conditions.
- Promote communities committed to a culture of care.
- Strengthen hospitality toward migrants, refugees, and displaced persons.
- Promote prevention and addiction care programs.
- Carry out environmental care actions.
- Promote citizen participation in security policies.
- Promote restorative justice and conflict transformation.
- Recognize and dignify the leadership of municipal and community police.
- Promote transparency and accountability of local authorities.
These 14 actions, along with the 7 national actions corresponding to governments, are part of the National Peace Agenda that the Dialogue has been building since 2023.
This effort does not end on November 23. The Mexican Church and the organizations driving the process are already preparing the Second National Dialogue for Peace, which will be held from January 30 to February 1, 2026, at ITESO (Jesuit University of Guadalajara). The meeting will seek to deepen the national diagnosis, design concrete routes for peace, strengthen local, state, and national alliances, and advance the reconstruction of the social fabric, security, and justice.
The process, backed by the Mexican Episcopal Conference, the Society of Jesus, the Mexican Province of the Society of Jesus, universities, businesses, search collectives, indigenous peoples, migrants, and broad sectors of civil society, maintains as its motto: We ARE PEACE, we will BE MORE.
This November 23, Mexico has the opportunity to take a collective step toward peace. The National Dialogue for Peace invites all people of good will to join from their community, parish, school, or neighborhood. Because, as the statement says: “peace should not be a matter for the brave, but a right for all”.
More information and materials: https://dialogonacionalporlapaz.org.mx