Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies Youth Leading Change

This volume brings together young scholar-practitioners who draw on their own lived expertise and academic practice to examine how youth navigate complex socio-cultural and political conflicts, to bring about social and cultural change, creating space for positive peace despite decades of compounding crises. Youth Leading Change offers a critical and timely intervention into the Youth, Peace and Security agenda. It sets a new benchmark for research that challenges hierarchies of knowledge production and advances youth-centered approaches within both academic and policy discourse. – Professor Bahar Baser, Durham University With young people already at the forefront of driving change, this collection rightly elevates their voices and expertise within academic and policy arenas, ensuring the YPS agenda is informed by those who are shaping its reality. – João Scarpelini, first-ever UN Youth Advisor in Somalia (2015-19) and Programme & Technical Specialist, UNFPA This volume brings together young scholar-practitioners who draw on their own lived expertise and academic practice to examine how youth navigate complex conflicts to bring about positive change. Contributors offer expert insights from global contexts. Each chapter connects local experiences to the broader Youth, Peace and Security agenda and advances the recognition of youth as knowledge producers in peace and conflict. Katrina Leclerc is a PhD candidate and part-time professor in Conflict Studies at Saint-Paul University. Katrina is also a policy specialist advising governments and UN agencies on Women and Youth, Peace and Security.Erika Isabel Bulan Yague is a PhD candidate at Griffith University. Her expertise focuses on young people in emergencies and peacebuilding, working with the UN, governments, and civil society.Helen Berents is Senior Lecturer in the School of Government and International Relations, Griffith University. Her research explores the politics of children and youth in international conflict and peacebuilding. This volume brings together young scholar-practitioners who draw on their own lived expertise and academic practice to examine how youth navigate complex socio-cultural and political conflicts, to bring about social and cultural change, creating space for positive peace despite decades of compounding crises. Contributors draw on expert knowledge and practice in a truly global range of contexts, covering Latin America and the Caribbean, Central and West Africa, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe. The specific insights of each chapter are situated in relation to the global policy architecture of the Youth, Peace and Security agenda, established by the UN Security Council, linking local and global contexts and extending limited but rapidly growing attention to youth as knowledge producers on peace and conflict

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