# Peace Through Play: Building Trust, Healing, and Resilience with Sarah Gough

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Podcast: [Between the East and the West](https://stenobird.com/podcast/between-the-east-and-the-west-6696487)
Published: 2026-05-01T08:33:24+00:00
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In this conversation, Sarah Gough, Executive Director of Play for Peace, shares how cooperative play can become a powerful tool for peacebuilding, healing, and community resilience. From her first days in Guatemala to projects across more than 40 countries, Sarah reflects on the role of youth leadership, local wisdom, human connection, and joy in communities affected by conflict, displacement, poverty, and climate crisis. She also explores why peace cannot only be built in conference rooms, but must also begin in playgrounds, circles, and shared moments of trust. Keywords peace, play, peacebuilding, youth leadership, community resilience, conflict transformation, human connection, grassroots leadership, climate crisis, healing, Play for Peace Takeaways -Peacebuilding begins with human connection, not only policy or diplomacy. -Cooperative play creates shared experiences that allow trust to grow. -Young people can become powerful leaders in divided communities. -Local communities must adapt peacebuilding tools to their own culture and wisdom. -Joy, laughter, and compassion can support healing after trauma. -Climate stress and displacement can intensify social conflict. -Resilient communities are built before, during, and after crisis. -Play helps people reconnect with hope, possibility, and their shared humanity. -Peace is not imposed from the outside; it is co-created from within communities. -Children and young people often carry a belief in possibility that adults forget. Sound bites “Before hard conversations, we need shared experiences.” “Play levels the field and brings people back to their humanity.” “Peace becomes possible when communities believe they can build it themselves.” Chapters Rethinking Peace Beyond Policies and Treaties Sarah’s Journey to Guatemala a…

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