Project Result

Scaling Up Strategy for Exploitation, Utilisation, and Sustainability of the “Missing Peace” Project

The “Missing Peace” project successfully moved beyond theoretical peace education to deliver a scalable, open-source framework for Youth, Peace, and Security (YPS) in Europe. Central to this success were three core intellectual outputs: the co-created “Peace by Piece” Toolkit, validated through piloting in countries like Cyprus and North Macedonia; a comprehensive 40-hour Educational Pack for […]

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Spreading “The Missing Peace” in Lithuania: Youth Workers Gather in Varėna

How can a small cultural centre in southern Lithuania become a hub for peacebuilding in Europe? This was the question behind “The Missing Peace – dissemination of the Tool-Kit event” hosted at Varėna Cultural Center, where youth workers, educators and cultural professionals gathered to explore new ways of working with young people on peace and reconciliation. On

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National Multiplier Conference in Bitola: Presenting The Missing Peace Toolkit in North Macedonia

On 10 June 2025, the European Cultural Epicenter Bitola (EKE) hosted the Final Conference – “The Missing Peace” at Europe House Bitola, serving as North Macedonia’s national multiplier event within the Erasmus+ project The Missing Peace: Youth, Peace & Reconciliation. The conference gathered 28 participants (9 young people and 17 youth workers) from Bitola and the wider Pelagonia region, with

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Peace by the Sea: Dialogues in Larnaca to Promote The Missing Peace

On 8 June 2025, peacebuilding moved out of meeting rooms and onto the sand of Finikoudes Beach in Larnaca. Under the title “Peace By the Sea”, CitizensAct (CiACT) transformed a stretch of public coastline into a temporary laboratory for youth-led dialogue, creative experimentation and shared reflection as part of The Missing Peace multiplier series. Bringing together 34 people –

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Peace by Piece in Budapest: Youth Workers Meet the Missing Peace Toolkit

On the last day of May 2025, a small courtyard on Dankó Street in Budapest slowly filled with people carrying notebooks, tote bags and a lot of lived experience of conflict. By 3 p.m., around thirty youth workers, educators, civil society actors and young people had gathered at TEIS’s community space for Hungary’s national Missing Peace multiplier

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Mapping the Missing Peace: What our Comparative Report reveals about youth, peace and reconciliation

The Missing Peace comparative report sits at the crossroads of two powerful global agendas: Youth, Peace and Security (YPS) and Women, Peace and Security (WPS). It asks a deceptively simple question: what happens when you take youth work seriously as peacebuilding, and actually map what young people and youth workers are already doing on the ground? Across six countries,

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Piloting “What Is Conflict?” with European Youth from Derry

On 17 March 2025, the Glencree Centre for Peace and Reconciliation facilitated a piloting session of the Peace by Piece toolkit with a visiting group of European youth in Derry who were exploring themes of Women and Peace as part of their study visit. Building on the earlier piloting with SARI Young Leaders, this session tested two tools,

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Glencree’s Irish Multiplier Event: Bringing The Missing Peace Toolkit into Practice

As coordinator of The Missing Peace: Youth, Peace & Reconciliation project, the Glencree Centre for Peace and Reconciliation carried Ireland’s multiplier responsibility by embedding dissemination directly into an existing professional training space. On 17 March 2025, Glencree delivered its A5.2 Local Multiplier Event through an on-site dissemination slot at an OSCE training in Derry, Northern Ireland, reaching

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Unpacking conflict together: Testing Conflict Definition and the Conflict Pyramid with SARI Young Leaders

On 5 March 2025, the Glencree Centre for Peace and Reconciliation piloted two foundational tools from the Peace by Piece toolkit, Definition of Conflict and the Conflict Pyramid, with a group of young people from Sport Against Racism Ireland (SARI). The three-hour evening workshop formed part of SARI’s Young Leader Employability Programme and was designed specifically for young people who

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BARNGA in Budapest: Learning through confusion in an intercultural space

On 3 March 2025, TE IS Foundation (TEIS) piloted the Barnga tool during an intercultural training course in Hungary, bringing together 22 participants for a five-hour experiential learning session. Set within a wider programme on youth work and diversity, the workshop aimed to help participants reflect on how they navigate confusion, unspoken norms, and communication barriers in intercultural settings.  Barnga

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