The Missing Peace Educational Pack

Aims of the tool

Our shared vision is simple but ambitious:
- that youth workers feel more confident to address sensitive topics such as identity, memory, injustice, and structural violence;
- that young people gain the competences they need – critical thinking, empathy, active listening, civic engagement, and intercultural understanding – to become meaningful actors in their communities;
- and that local initiatives for peace and reconciliation become more visible, connected, and sustainable.

Description of the tool

This publication is one of the core outcomes of our multi-year journey to strengthen the role of young people – especially young women – in peace and reconciliation processes. Our project set out to build the long-term capacity of youth workers and NGOs engaged in non-formal education, to improve how they involve young people in community life and decision-making, and to address the persistent underrepresentation of youth and women in peacebuilding efforts.

The Educational Pack you are holding (or exploring online) brings together that experience in a practical, accessible way. It offers an innovative blend of learning modules, hands-on activities, and digital tools designed to support youth workers, educators, community leaders, and youth leaders who are working in post-conflict and conflict-affected communities – or in any context where polarisation, discrimination, and violence are felt in everyday life.

Throughout the project, we have learned that peace education cannot remain abstract or distant. Young people
need spaces where they can analyse real conflicts, practice dialogue, experiment with non-violent communication, and imagine alternatives together.

That is why this Pack combines:
- clear introductions to key concepts of peace, conflict, and reconciliation;
- interactive methods rooted in non-formal education;
- concrete session outlines and tools tested during our training courses and youth exchanges;
- online learning modules inspired by historical and contemporary peace processes across Europe.