Youth and Peacebuilding

Berents, Helen; Mollica, Caitlin

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“…Although young men have often been a factor of concern in the analysis of armed conflict, 23 there is a consensus that young people are "rarely asked about their contributions to peace." 24 Moreover, young people have often been assessed as a passive group that should have their rights protected, as opposed to agents in peacebuilding. As Helen Berents and Siobhan McEvoy-Levy explain, peacebuilding has been built around age-based vested interests and ideologies.…”

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Exploring subjectivities of peace, violence, and power among the youth in Brazil

2022

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Brazil is one of the most violent countries in the world, and the vast majority of victims of lethal violence are under 30 years of age. Given this context, it seems important to understand what the perceptions and experiences of young people are regarding peace, violence, and power. This article does this through a study of the views of 153 high school students in nine public institutions in three municipalities. Engaging with the debates on the "local turn" and on youth in peacebuilding, we show that young people, while embracing some values intrinsic to the influential "liberal peace discourse," also express views that are critical of important assumptions that shape such discourse. Students also criticized entrenched dynamics of symbolic violence, such as machismo and racism, factors which affect their subjectivities of empowerment and agency. To reduce violence, participants reiterated the need to change values through critical (peace) education.

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Exploring subjectivities of peace, violence, and power among the youth in Brazil

2022

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“…Despite incremental improvements, tokenistic engagement remains a persistent challenge. Previous attempts to include women and youth in peace processes have relied heavily on classifying them ‘as a homogenous group’ or ‘faceless entity’ (Berents and Mollica, 2020; Senarathna, 2015: 82; Westendorf, 2013). That is, their interests are conceived as linear and interchangeable irrespective of intersecting factors, such as class, race, disability and age (Özerdem and Podder, 2015).…”

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Reciprocal institutional visibility: Youth, peace and security and ‘inclusive’ agendas at the United Nations

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Mollica²

2021

Cooperation and Conflict

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Within the architecture of the United Nations (UN), formal recognition of the contributions of historically marginalised individuals and communities to peacebuilding denotes a positive shift in rhetoric and practice. Alongside broader institutional moves towards ‘sustaining peace’; the emergence of a ‘Youth, Peace and Security’ agenda since 2015 formalises attention to youth as positive contributors to peacebuilding and in responding to violence. This article situates the Youth, Peace and Security agenda within broader institutional and academic attention on ‘inclusive peace’. It considers the ongoing challenges in legitimising youth inclusion; and positions this emergent agenda in relation to the gains made by the Women, Peace and Security agenda, and the establishment of the UN’s sustaining peace agenda. These explorations demonstrate the value of considering the evolution of inclusive peace agendas together, while remaining mindful of their distinctive characteristics, to better understand the potential of inclusive approaches to peace. It argues that the Youth, Peace and Security agenda should be understood as a key element of shifts in UN peacebuilding practice towards inclusivity that enable visibility and legitimacy to a broader range of peace actors. We suggest that greater recognition of the contributions of youth to the broader ‘inclusive and sustaining peace’ mandates is needed.

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Peacebuilding Inc.: neoliberal influences on Rwanda’s vulnerable youth

Rabinowitz

2024

Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education

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Youth and Peacebuilding

Cited by 3 publications

References 39 publications

Exploring subjectivities of peace, violence, and power among the youth in Brazil

Exploring subjectivities of peace, violence, and power among the youth in Brazil

Reciprocal institutional visibility: Youth, peace and security and ‘inclusive’ agendas at the United Nations

Peacebuilding Inc.: neoliberal influences on Rwanda’s vulnerable youth

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