Legitimacy & Mandate
Give 100 is Givingtide International’s sole and permanent campaign. Its legitimacy is made visible in disciplined voluntary participation—citizens, cities, and institutions showing up, convening rightly, and carrying the work—and its constitutional charge is to establish GIVA, Preemptology, and the Centory as permanent Instruments of Peace.
Give 100 is the sole and permanent campaign of Givingtide International, and the single vehicle through which the Three Instruments of Peace—GIVA, Preemptology, and the Centory—are established and adopted worldwide. It is conducted in the International Decade of Strengthening of Peace for Future Generations, 2027–2036.
It is not a royal programme, a state initiative, or a government-sponsored campaign, and it is not a programme or agency of the United Nations. It holds no political affiliation and no royal patronage, and no government or intergovernmental body governs it.
Its constitutional authority comes through its Charter and its own organs. Its civic legitimacy is another thing, and it is made visible in disciplined voluntary participation and in the institutions constituted through it—Founding Commissions, Givingtide Chapters, City Centorys, GIVAs, Champions, Beacons, LAMPs and LAMP Companions, and the conveners of semidons in cities across the world.
That independence is not incidental to the campaign. It is the condition that makes it possible. Give 100 is able to convene across governments, sectors, nations, traditions, and generations precisely because it is possessed by none of them. The independence is the premise. Everything that follows from it is structural and deliberate.
The Basis of Authority
Give 100 was not constituted by any government and carries no state authority. Givingtide International governs the campaign under its own Charter, and with it the doctrine, the Chapters, the honours, and the records; no state, royal house, political office, or intergovernmental body delegates that authority, and none could withdraw it. It is exercised, not delegated.
The mandate is the Charter’s own. It makes Give 100 the sole campaign of Givingtide International and the single vehicle through which GIVA, Preemptology, and the Centory are established and adopted worldwide: one campaign, one doctrine, one event form, one Registry, one set of honours. That charge is what Give 100 exists to discharge, and no body outside the order conferred it.
Legitimacy is a different thing again, and it is conferred by nobody at all. It does not arise from governmental sponsorship, royal patronage, political office, a state charter, a United Nations endorsement of Give 100, or an intergovernmental delegation of authority. It becomes visible only where citizens, institutions, and cities freely accept the discipline of the campaign: Founding Commissions constituting Chapters, Centorians elected and Centorys constituted, GIVAs enlisted and their Circles convened, Champions, Beacons, LAMPs, and LAMP Companions carrying the work, and semidons convened city by city. Legitimacy is made real in participation—disciplined, structured, and public.
The Decade supplies the period and the invitation, and nothing further. On 25 June 2026 the General Assembly of the United Nations proclaimed the years 2027 to 2036 the Decade 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, and the Decade neither appoints, authorises, sponsors, nor endorses Give 100, which is not a United Nations programme, agency, or implementing arm.
The Condition of Possibility
A campaign held within any single government, institution, or tradition would be bounded by it. Give 100 is held within none of them—which is why it can convene across all of them. No government, political order, royal house, religion, university, corporation, or intergovernmental body owns it. Independence, though, is not isolation: Give 100 may work with governments, universities, companies, charities, faith communities, cities, and institutions of the United Nations system without becoming an arm of any of them.
Its reach is civic rather than territorial. Givingtide Chapters are constituted city by city, every city passing the same readiness gate on the same terms—a Founding Commission in place, the constitutional instruments settled and an address registered, five Centorians elected and approved, not fewer than twenty registered GIVAs, and one semidon convened.
What the independence is for is the establishment of the Three Instruments of Peace—GIVA, Preemptology, and the Centory. Of the three, Givingtide founds two and funds the third: GIVA and the Centory are its own institutions, while Preemptology is a clinical discipline whose principal institutional expression stands independent of it. The Institute of Preemptology (Instop) is a wholly independent establishment. Givingtide founds it, funds it through the Foundation architecture, and advocates for it; after its installation it neither owns, governs, nor controls it.
The Queen Elizabeth II Centre for Cervical Cancer Elimination (QE2C) is the Institute’s founding flagship and Preemptology’s proof of concept; its designation is a programme name and implies no endorsement or control by the Royal Household. Queen Elizabeth II is honoured as the Global Archetype of the Exemplars, a completed life from which the Instruments learn their vocation, and not as the source of Give 100’s constitutional authority. Royal sanction is neither claimed nor required, there is no royal patronage, and no participant anywhere is asked to accept a royal, Commonwealth, or centenary proposition in order to take part.
That work is carried by those who choose to participate in it. Their choice, repeated across cities and traditions, is the campaign itself. Its legitimacy accumulates through participation—sustained by the standing of those who join, and by the seriousness with which they do.
The Decade and the Inaugural Year
On 21 September 2026, the International Day of Peace, the founding trustees adopt the Givingtide Charter and appoint the first Founding Commissions and City Centory Curators. Those founding bodies begin their work on 1 January 2027.
The Decade and the Inaugural Year open together on 1 January 2027, and registration opens with them: any city in the world may apply, the Founding Commissions and Curators take up their work, and hosts may register the semidons they will convene. A canonical semidon has a roll of exactly one hundred named adults, one hundred commonweal lights, and a duration of no more than one hundred minutes, with the Enkindling at its heart. It is a cause-seeding gathering, convened to awaken, organise, or multiply support for a worthy cause, and may seed gifts, pledges, volunteers, advocacy, solidarity, partnerships, public commitment, or institutional alignment.
Givingtide Day, 11 January, the 1·1·1 Day, is the Moment of renewal, kept in every year: every GIVA renews the 1-1-1 discipline, the Pause is observed for three minutes at 1:11 pm local time as three silences of one minute—Remembrance, Solidarity, and Resolve—and the constitutional year of every Chapter turns at the Pause.
The International Day of Peace, 21 September, is in every year the Day of Account, on which the global count of semidons is announced and the year’s account is rendered at its three-quarter mark. In 2027 it falls on a Tuesday and is therefore Founding GoodTuesday: the Global Founding Semidon is convened at the International Headquarters in Oslo, where the Three Instruments of Peace are installed together, and Enugu convenes Instop’s own founding semidon the same day. The hundred days from 22 September to 30 December are, in every year, the Hundred Days to Zero, in which the movement makes good what the Day of Account showed wanting; in 2027 they are the Founding Hundred Days. On 31 December 2027 the Founding Year closes, and Inaugural City status—held by every city that constitutes its Chapter during 2027, whether invited or admitted on its own application—closes absolutely with it.
In every year of the Decade, Givingtide seeks to initiate Chapter formation in one hundred cities and the constitution of twenty Chapters, while every city on earth remains the horizon. The Rule of 100 is a standing call, and Give 100 is permanent. The Decade is the campaign’s founding period, not its term.
The Test of Legitimacy
The legitimacy Give 100 requires is the legitimacy of showing up: disciplined participation, right convening, and carrying the work.
Legitimacy: disciplined participation. Mandate: establish the Three Instruments of Peace. Context: the Decade.