The team in Mitrovica intends to work towards breaking down multiple barriers in an inert divided city. By creating opportunities for people of different backgrounds to meet, the program will improve common understanding between the people of the city, and ensure more sustainable peace. As the team approaches cultural and educational organizations from all parts of the city, GAIA can foster connections and synergies between them, encouraging a wider and richer cultural life that will tear down the most acute divisions. By making people meet, by unearthing positive stories from past and present, the program will help fight against prejudice and the fear of the ‘other’.