Practice Insight: Adapting Peacebuilding Dialogue Methodologies to City‐Resident Relations and Inclusive Policymaking in Calgary, Canada

ABSTRACT This case study presents a project in which peacebuilding dialogue methodologies were adapted for use in municipal‐level dialogue sessions that took place in Calgary, Canada in late 2022 and early 2023. The authors found that using this approach built trust among cross‐sectoral participants and facilitators, resulted in greater diversity during recruitment, strengthened participant agency that led to City‐wide transformations and built connections between groups, sectors and geographical areas that had not regularly come into contact. Additionally, the project generated insights into how peacebuilding methodologies can be adapted and applied within contexts of non‐armed societal conflicts in the Global North, particularly in areas thought to suffer from marginalization or a deficit of trust in local governing bodies—in this case, setting the stage for a novel form of multi‐track dialogue that facilitates inclusive, community‐engaged municipal policymaking.