The Missing Peace

Episode 05: Why Youth Work Matters for Peace

In Episode 5 of The Missing Peace Podcast, youth workers Robert (CGE Erfurt, Germany) and Aistė (Varėna Cultural Centres, Lithuania) take listeners on a deep dive into the core values of youth work and how these naturally align with peacebuilding. Their conversation reveals how international youth work — rooted in holistic, creative, and learner-centred methods — creates powerful […]

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Episode 04: How Creativity Transforms Divides in the Balkans

In this episode of The Missing Peace Podcast, director of LOJA – Center for Balkan Cooperation and civil society leader Bujar Luma reflects on how art can become a powerful tool for reconciliation, healing, and cross-cultural understanding in North Macedonia and across the Western Balkans. What begins as a personal story about growing up in a border village

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Episode 03: Humanising the “Other”

n this powerful episode of The Missing Peace Podcast, host Andreas Vasileiadis sits down with peace practitioners Eduard Oganian and Natalia Skorik to explore one of the most urgent challenges in today’s conflict-ridden world: how do we humanise those we are taught to fear? Their insights resonate deeply with the goals of The Missing Peace Project, which places dialogue, youth engagement, and reconciliation at

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Episode 01: Building bridges through stories

The first episode of The Missing Peace Podcast opens a powerful conversation about how youth, women, and communities can shape peace from the ground up. Hosted by Amina Mustafa, the episode brings together a group of young women who first met during a peacebuilding training in Germany, later co-creating the BRIDGE Project — an initiative rooted in intergenerational dialogue, storytelling,

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