GIVA · Preemptology · Centory
Give 100
Establishing the Three Instruments of Peace
In the International Decade of Strengthening of Peace for Future Generations (2027–2036)
Give 100 is Givingtide International’s campaign to establish GIVA, Preemptology and the Centory as three permanent Instruments of Peace. It is the movement’s sole and permanent campaign, institution-building rather than institution-dependent, and the single vehicle through which the three Instruments are established and adopted worldwide. Its governing principle is the Rule of 100: one hundred per cent of humanity giving one hundred per cent of what each can give toward the complete elimination of preventable suffering, disease and extreme poverty — a rule of participation and of proportion, and not a demand that everyone possess or give the same amount. Everyone is invited to host or take part in a semidon; those who adopt the 1-1-1 Framework may also become GIVAs.
The Decade and registration open on 1 January; the three Instruments are installed together at Oslo on 21 September; Inaugural City status closes on 31 December.
Three permanent institutions, one architecture of peace
GIVA orders what we have. Preemptology protects how we live. The Centory places what we have become at the service of those who follow. Each unites a class of givers otherwise dispersed — GIVA the givers of means, for the world’s prosperity; Preemptology the givers of health, for its longevity; the Centory the givers of wisdom, for its sagacity — and the three, the 3IoP, advance one aim: peace for future generations. Common weal; common health; common peace.
GIVA
The Give 1% Alliance orders generosity through the 1-1-1 Framework. Core Equity Giving directs one per cent a year to the world’s poorest tenth, and is the whole of the financial commitment. Cross-Continental Giving directs not less than one per cent of a member’s annual giving across a continental boundary — an allocation rule on what is already being given, so that every member gives across a boundary and no member only receives. The Universal Project is one project and not a third per cent, supported from within Core Equity Giving and freely chosen. One per cent is all that GIVA asks.
Preemptology
Preemptology is the discipline of eliminating the preventable dimension of disease: through primary, secondary and tertiary prevention; across clinical, surgical and laboratory medicine; for every demographic; in research, clinical care and public health; and at individual, family and population scale. Its work is zeroward, toward zero preventable suffering and zero preventable disease. Its principal institutional expression is Instop, the Institute of Preemptology at Enugu, which Givingtide founds, funds and advocates for, and which is wholly independent once installed.
Centory
A centory gathers completed leadership and recognised eminence into the emeriti council of a city, principally from the former holders of its highest civic, professional and institutional offices. It is the apex civic council of that city’s Chapter, its members Centorians holding a lifelong civic dignity to which they are elected in confidence, and it is founded on the principle of the greatest for the least: those who have reached the summit joined in disciplined service to those with the least protection and opportunity.
The Decade supplies the mandate. Give 100 supplies the institutions.
On 25 June 2026 the General Assembly of the United Nations proclaimed the years 2027 to 2036 the International Decade of Strengthening of Peace for Future Generations, and invited Member States, the United Nations system and civil society to facilitate its observance. Give 100 answers that invitation. Givingtide neither owns nor administers the Decade, speaks for no government, and asserts the endorsement of no one.
A proclamation names a purpose; institutions are what make a purpose hold after the year in which it was declared. 2027–2036 is therefore Givingtide’s decade of establishment within the Decade: the years in which GIVA, Preemptology and the Centory are to become institutionally present in every city that will receive them. 2036–2045 is the Decade for the Consolidation of the Three Instruments of Peace, Givingtide’s own designation, closing in the centenary year of the United Nations. Give 100 continues beyond both.
Give 100 is permanent. The Rule of 100 is a standing call and Give 100 is its name in action, so the Decade is the campaign’s founding period and not the term of its life.
Everyone who takes part holds the Office of the Citizen, the premier office of Give 100. It is entered by the act of participating and creates no employment, no public office and no legal duty; every designated office in the order exists to serve it.
Common weal; common health; common peace.
The Universal Project of 2027
The Universal Project is Givingtide’s one global project of civilisational significance, designated against nine published criteria. The Institute of Preemptology is the Universal Project designated for 2027 and continues until its defined work is complete; its completion condition is the completion of its Perpetual Endowment.
Instop — the Institute of Preemptology
The Instop Complex at Enugu has three parts: Instop itself, which trains preemptologists and to which the Preemptorium and the Instop Teaching Hospital are integral; the Instop Medical School, which trains doctors who rotate through preemptology as a fifth department; and the Instop Comprehensive Cancer Centre. The Perpetual Endowment completes the complex. Instop is incorporated before its installation and is a wholly independent establishment thereafter, neither owned, governed nor controlled by Givingtide International, which founds it, funds it through the philanthropy architecture, and advocates for it.
The Queen Elizabeth II Centre for Cervical Cancer Elimination
QE2C is the founding flagship of the Institute and the proof of concept of Preemptology, carrying the World Health Organization’s 90-70-90 elimination strategy. The dedication honours a life of service: Queen Elizabeth II carried the wisdom of a long public life to its final day and never retired from service, which is the model on which the Centory is built, and her reign made female authority visible at the highest level of public life, which is joined here to a centre for women’s lives. The name is a programme name; the Royal Household is informed as a courtesy, and the name implies no endorsement or control by it.
The Give 100 Founding Fund is the capital programme of the Institute. It opens at the City Founding Semidons of the Inaugural Cities and runs through a contribution period stated when it opens; until the Institute is built every contribution is applied to building and establishing it, and once it stands contributions are applied to the endowment, a gift expressly designated to the endowment being honoured as designated. Givingtide International holds the funds of its own operation and programmes alone; the Givingtide Foundation and its recognised associate foundations hold the charitable funds of the campaign and the Institute; the Givingtide Global Trust holds contributions to the Universal Project in purpose-bound custody under professional fiduciary trusteeship; and the perpetual corpus is held by an independently governed endowment vehicle, separate from the movement and from the operating philanthropy. Every donor is told which charity receives the gift.
Prevention is not absent. It is fragmented.
Modern health systems do not lack prevention. They disperse it across campaigns, departments, specialties and short-term interventions, so that responsibility is diluted even where the intention is good and no profession is accountable for the whole of it. What is owned by everyone in general is owned by no one in particular.
The preventable share is not small. By the World Health Organization’s reckoning, four in five heart attacks and strokes, and between a third and a half of all cancers, could be prevented with what is already known; every death from a vaccine-preventable infection is by definition avoidable. That is not a natural fact but an institutional failure, and it falls heaviest on people with the least time, money and institutional access.
Preemptology is the institutional correction. The World Health Organization sets norms, medical schools train clinicians and non-governmental organisations deliver programmes; the clinician whose defined responsibility is prevention itself is the professional that architecture has lacked. The preemptologist is accountable for the preventable dimension of disease as one object, and the Institute trains that practitioner.
A defined discipline
A defined field with training, standards, methods, and accountability for outcomes within a defined population.
An accountable practitioner
The preemptologist holds the whole preventable dimension of disease — every level, domain, demographic, context and scale — as one object.
A cadre that travels
Ten thousand preemptologists within the Decade, every one formed in part at Enugu, in residential international cohorts, with an ideal 1-1-1 composition: a third from Africa, a third from the rest of the Global South and a third from the Global North.
The proof of concept, because the case is clearest
Preemptology’s object is the whole preventable portion of all disease, every preventable disease being of equal human worth, and the discipline triages by burden, preventability and feasibility. Cervical cancer is its flagship for three reasons: it is the only non-communicable disease for which the world has adopted an elimination strategy, by resolution of the World Health Assembly in 2020; it is the only such target that is a disease of every country rather than of a region, so that every city on earth can begin on it at once; and it shows most clearly the inequity Givingtide exists to end, disappearing in the Global North, where the first countries are within years of eliminating it, and a raging fire in parts of the Global South, where nine in ten of its deaths now fall.
The Institute begins its proof of concept where the case is clearest. The Queen Elizabeth II Centre for Cervical Cancer Elimination carries the World Health Organization’s 90-70-90 strategy, and elimination here means elimination as a public-health problem — an incidence below four cases per hundred thousand women-years — and not the disappearance of the disease. Outcomes are measured against the World Health Organization’s indicators and published by the Institute, 2030 being the year for reaching the targets against which the flagship’s first results are measured.
The flagship is judged by what it delivers toward the targets, and not by the date on which the world reaches them. It proves the discipline; it does not exhaust it.
2027: the first year of the Decade
The International Decade opens and Give 100 registration opens. From this date any city in the world may apply, and the Founding Roll opens, chronicling the founding of every Givingtide city for as long as cities are founded.
The 1·1·1 Day, and the annual renewal of every GIVA’s commitment to the 1-1-1 discipline. The Pause is observed for three minutes at 1:11 pm local time — Remembrance, Solidarity, Resolve — and the constitutional year of every Chapter turns at its conclusion.
Founding GoodTuesday, the Day of Account, the International Day of Peace. The global count of semidons is announced; the Global Founding Semidon is convened at the International Headquarters in Oslo, where the Three Instruments of Peace are installed together as the architecture Give 100 is to establish; and the Institute’s own founding semidon is convened at Enugu.
The hundred days that follow the Day of Account in every year, in which the movement makes good what the year’s account showed wanting; in 2027 they are also the Founding Hundred Days. Global GoodTuesday, the first Tuesday of December, falls within them as the annual peak of the weekly GoodTuesday.
Inaugural City status closes absolutely, with the other designations of the Inaugural Year: Inaugural Cities and their Founding Commissions, Founding Centorys and Founding Centorians, Founding Hosts and Founding Guests. Give 100 and the Decade continue.
The Decade opens on 1 January. The Instruments are installed at Oslo on 21 September. The Hundred Days to Zero close every year that follows, and the work continues past the Decade that founds it.
Cities, Chapters, and three Instruments in every one
Give 100 proceeds city by city. In the Inaugural Year Givingtide invites one hundred cities, the Hundred Invited Cities, chosen by published data across nine categories — human scale, need, enterprise, learning, national generosity, inclusion, citizen generosity, peacekeeping and healthy longevity — and subject to the Charter’s legal and security readiness rule. Invitation is not monopoly: from 1 January 2027 any city on earth may apply, and every city passes the same readiness gate at its own pace, with a Founding Commission in place, its constitutional instruments and registered address settled, five Centorians elected and approved, not fewer than twenty registered GIVAs, and one semidon convened. A city that constitutes its Chapter during 2027 is an Inaugural City, whether it was invited or applied; Enugu, as the seat of the Institute, is founded without invitation and stands outside the hundred. In every year of the Decade Givingtide seeks to initiate the formation of Chapters in one hundred cities and the constitution of twenty, and every city on earth is the horizon.
Three Champions stand for the three estates of a city — Learning, Enterprise and Civic Trust — as the Academic Champion, the Business Champion and the Civil Champion. Each speaks for one estate and enlists it, and no Champion is given one Instrument as a portfolio: each advances the whole campaign across their own catchment, enlisting GIVAs and forming GIVA Circles, convening semidons, opening the universities and the medical and public-health schools to preemptology, and drawing forward the Beacons, the Lead Anchor Metropolitan Philanthropists — the LAMPs — and the LAMP Companions who join them in that generosity.
A Chapter is what a city builds and keeps: its GIVAs, personal and institutional, and the GIVA Circles formed within its catchments; its City Centory, founded by Curators and seated with Centorians, which may name a City Exemplar in accordance with the Charter’s rules; and its work in preemptology with the universities, medical schools and public-health institutions of the city. Its repeatable act is the semidon: exactly one hundred named adults, one hundred commonweal lights and no more than one hundred minutes, registered before it is held, opened by the Enkindling and reported to the Registry. A gathering of fewer than one hundred, or one not registered in advance, that performs the Enkindling and is reported, is a Give 100 Gathering. Every registered semidon is published in the Golden Book at semidon.org.
Distributed by city. Permanent in structure. One architecture of peace in every one of them.
The Inaugural Year begins it. The Instruments are built to outlast the Decade.
The Decade and registration open on 1 January 2027, and GIVA, Preemptology and the Centory are installed together at Oslo on Founding GoodTuesday, 21 September. The International Decade runs to 2036, and Give 100 continues beyond it. Everyone is invited to host or take part in a semidon, and in doing so enters the Office of the Citizen; a city may enter the founding process by invitation or application and enters the Givingtide order when its Chapter is constituted at its City Founding Semidon; and those who adopt the 1-1-1 Framework may also become GIVAs.
Global in reach. Permanent in standing. Three Instruments in consequence.