What happens when peace stops being an abstract idea and begins with something more immediate: knowing another person? In this Horizon Special Dialogue, Michael Frugtniet speaks with Fumiko “Miko” Green about the simple conviction at the heart of Miko’s World: when people become real to us, conflict is no longer distant or anonymous. Friendship gives names, faces and memories to those whom news headlines too easily reduce to numbers. Their conversation explores why children often cross cultural and linguistic boundaries more naturally than adults; why play, music, food and shared experience can achieve what formal peace education cannot; and why digital connection is most powerful when it supports, rather than replaces, human encounter. Miko also traces the remarkable Peace Violin journey, including instruments marked by Hiroshima and the Holocaust, and considers how music can carry difficult histories into the hands of a new generation. The discussion then looks ahead to The Signal Room: a space in which young people will not simply be discussed, studied or spoken for, but invited to speak and be heard. At its centre is a proposition both simple and demanding: peace may begin before policy, through the friendships we make and the people we learn to recognise as our own. Produced by Horizon with The Age of Culture Project and Atlas, in collaboration with Miko’s World.