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, the project partners collected national data, mapped grassroots initiatives, and co-created an online tool that makes these efforts visible under the banner “Youth, Peace, and Reconciliation.” The result is a comparative picture of how young people – especially young women – are already acting as peacebuilders, and what they still need from institutions and policies to make that work sustainable.