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 an estimated 20 practitioners.
Rather than organising a standalone conference, Glencree opted for a practice-embedded model: presenting the Missing Peace approach and the Peace by Piece toolkit inside a wider training programme attended by professionals already engaged in peacebuilding-related work.During this slot, the facilitator introduced the project’s core rationale, outlined how the toolkit had been co-developed and tested across six European countries, and highlighted concrete applications of the methods in youth and community settings.
Photos from Christina Kelly.
The session focused on the practical transfer of tools rather than abstract promotion. Participants were walked through selected activities from the toolkit, with particular attention to how exercises on conflict analysis, dialogue and reconciliation can be adapted to diverse institutional and community contexts. The facilitator explicitly invited questions on local adaptation, and the discussion centred on how the methods might complement participants’ existing programmes and mandates. Because the training was hosted under an OSCE programme, formal participant recording was not permitted. Nevertheless, contemporaneous documentation, including visual evidence, confirms that approximately 20 participants were present and engaged with the presentation of the Missing Peace materials. The event thus fulfilled the project’s objective of meeting professionals “where they are” and “converting interest into concrete uptake steps” by providing direct links to the online toolkit and clear contact points for follow-up collaboration.
Glencree complemented this field-level outreach with institutional anchoring at home. Following the Derry dissemination, the organisation scheduled a board-level briefing in which the Missing Peace line of work was presented alongside other programme reports, ensuring governance-side endorsement of multiplier follow-up and facilitating integration of the toolkit into Glencree’s broader programming.
Taken together, the Derry slot and subsequent internal briefing exemplify the project’s WP5 strategy: moving beyond simple visibility to foster sector uptake, by embedding the toolkit within existing professional ecosystems and securing leadership buy-in for continued use and scaling after the grant period.
“The Missing Peace” project is co-funded by the European Union through the Erasmus+ Program (Pr. Nr.: KA220-YOU-055CD22D).
