The project "Peacebuilding Strategies for Civic Participation and Community" aimed to respond to growing concerns across Europe and the Mediterranean about the rising disconnection of young people from civic life, the erosion of interpersonal communication skills, and the limited tools youth workers have to address conflict, polarisation, and social exclusion. Generation Z has grown up shaped by social media echo chambers, over-digitalisation, and reduced face-to-face interaction — resulting in diminished empathy, heightened anxiety, and disengagement from civic processes. At the same time, youth workers frequently lack formal training in peace education and conflict transformation, leaving them without the methodological grounding to address these challenges effectively. Without this foundation, the gap between what young people need and what youth workers can provide continues to widen. Our project responded by embracing conflict transformation and peace education as the central framework for youth work practice. Through a mobility experience in Vienna, youth workers explored how to analyse, navigate, and transform conflicts in ways that promote inclusion, dialogue, and civic participation. The Reciprocal Maieutic Approach — a dialogical method developed by Danilo Dolci — formed the pedagogical spine of the training, placing collective reflection and community-driven inquiry at its core. Complemented by multilateral simulations, Forum Theatre, World Café dialogue, and a study visit to the Vienna International Centre (UN headquarters), the programme created opportunities for authentic learning, intercultural exchange, and the direct practice of peacebuilding tools transferable to participants' local contexts. The urgency became especially clear against the backdrop of recent conflicts across the Euro-Mediterranean region and rising polarised political discourse in the participating countries. Young people in Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, and Tunisia navigate environments where online hostility, misinformation, and fragmentation are daily realities affecting their wellbeing and civic engagement. Yet the capacity of youth organisations to address this remains severely limited by a lack of dedicated methodological training at the youth worker level — a structural gap this project directly addressed. The overarching aim was to build a network of trained youth workers capable of designing and delivering peace education workshops that empower young people to engage constructively in civic life — fostering social cohesion, countering polarisation, and strengthening democratic participation across a diverse Euro-Mediterranean partnership. To achieve this, we pursued the following objectives: 1. Promote and enhance peace education as a fundamental component of effective youth work. 2. Build a shared understanding of conflict transformation methodologies and their role in civic engagement. 3. Develop the competences of youth workers in facilitating conflict resolution and peacebuilding with young people. 4. Equip youth workers with tools and strategies to address intolerance, discrimination, and polarisation in their communities. 5. Explore and apply non-formal education techniques for designing and delivering peace education workshops. 6. Provide opportunities to practise and refine newly developed skills in an intercultural, multilingual setting. 7. Strengthen youth workers' abilities to foster dialogue, understanding, and cooperation among diverse groups. 8. Share and document best practices in peace education across 8 countries for wider replication and impact. We designed the project using a participatory, learner-centred approach, blending Non-Formal Education, Experiential Learning, and conflict transformation into a single coherent methodology. The training was structured around Kolb's full learning cycle — from concrete experience to critical reflection to conceptual understanding to active experimentation. Through role-play, simulations, collective dialogue, and the co-design of local follow-up activities, participants were invited to challenge their assumptions, reflect on their professional practice, and take ownership of their role as agents of peaceful change. This immersive, practice-based experience created a space where learning was mutual, reflective, and truly lived. Participants not only expanded their methodological repertoire but became more aware of their own conflict styles, communication patterns, and civic responsibilities as youth workers. By learning to guide others through conflict constructively, they became better equipped to support the young people in their communities to do the same. This is the core spirit of the project: building inner capacity in youth workers that ripples outward through their organisations, their communities, and the young people whose futures they help to shape.