Teaching, training and coaching in peace mediation has become an essential part in ensuring quality standards for the professionalisation of young and senior practicioners alike. The EU Guidelines on Peace Mediation recognise the number of agencies and organisations in EU Member States and beyond who provide training on Peace Mediation courses with varying content. During times of geopolitical shifts, strategic autonomy, and decolonisation, the question is relevant of what kind of peace mediation is practiced by third actors. Yet the question of whether what we teach to produce what kind of mediator and whether our training is still practice-relevant needs to be asked. This session aims to fertilise experiences and allow for a candid discussion between such academic and professionaltraining providers addressing questions such as: – What training methods and techniques are popular/effective? Are these still relevant? – What are our blind spots? How can we look into the horizon and integrate challenges in our horizons ? How can we, and should we adapt to new challenges? – How do we adress decolonialisation in our methods and teaching? – How can feminist foreign policy be mainstreamed into training methods? – Are we training the right people? How should/can participants be selected? – Do new technologies, such as AI present new opportunities? Session design see below Gender-responsiveness of the session: We will adress gender explicitly in the session Other: We advocate that this could evolve as a discussion group beyond the community of practice event.