Youth and sustainable peacebuilding

Youth and sustainable peacebuilding
Author: Helen Berents
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 410
Release: 2024-07-02
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 152617619X

Sustainable peace involves more than simply including youth in official peacebuilding mechanisms or recognizing their local peacebuilding work; it requires a transformation in thinking about the youth as actors in the world of security and peace. Using case studies from around the globe, the contributors to this volume analyse why states are afraid of their young people, why 'youth participation' in formal peace processes matters but is insufficient, and ways that young people are working outside of official systems to create and nurture peace on their own terms. The volume offers guidance for ways to bridge the disconnect that exists between institutional assumptions and expectations for youth as peacebuilders and the actual sustainable peace leadership of youth. Throughout, it emphasises a critical approach to peacebuilding with, for and by youth.

Sustainable Peacebuilding and Social Justice in Times of Transition

Sustainable Peacebuilding and Social Justice in Times of Transition
Author: Mieke T.A. Lopes Cardozo
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2018-10-26
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3319938126

This book offers a unique insight into the ways in which education systems, governance, and actors at multiple scales interact in initial steps towards building peace. It presents a spectrum of recently conducted research in the context of Myanmar, a society in the midst of challenging transitions, politically, socio-culturally and economically. Divided in 3 thematical research areas, the first part on Myanmar’s policy landscape aims to unravel the integration of peacebuilding into the education sector at macro and micro policy levels. The second part examines the role teachers play in processes of peacebuilding, and the third part examines ways in which formal and non-formal peacebuilding education programs address the agency of youth in Myanmar. This book is an essential guide for students embarking in the field of education, conflict and peacebuilding.

Conflict, Learning and Sustainable Peacebuilding

Conflict, Learning and Sustainable Peacebuilding
Author: William M. Timpson
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2024-01-17
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1527556352

In this book, the reader will learn how to “CL&SP” those moments when “Conflicts” arise and they are challenged to “Learn” the options they have for a deeper understanding. They can study examples of “Sustainable Peacebuilding” from around the world. The book will demonstrate how reconciliation efforts worked in South Africa, how peace literacy can teach English to youth in Burundi, and how an innovative women’s village in Kenya succeeds. It will also explore the Graduate Institute of Peace Studies in South Korea and then into China, Japan, Thailand and Cambodia. In the Americas, the book provides positive examples from Brazil, Cuba, Nicaragua, Guatemala and Costa Rica. This book will also consider case studies of sustainable peacebuilding in Israel and Palestine, Russia and Ukraine, and conclude with references to protests and public nonviolent campaigns for change and how the CL&SP model can shine a light forward.

Youth Peacebuilding

Youth Peacebuilding
Author: Lesley J. Pruitt
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2013-04-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1438446551

This book highlights the important role youth can play in processes of peacebuilding by examining music as a tool for engaging youth in such activities. As Lesley J. Pruitt discusses throughout the book, music—as expression, as creation, as inspiration—can provide many unique insights into transforming conflicts, altering our understandings, and achieving change. She offers detailed empirical work on two youth peacebuilding programs in Australia and Northern Ireland, countries that appear overtly peaceful, but where youth still face structural violence and related direct violence at the community level. She also pays careful attention to the ways in which gender norms might influence young people’s participation in music-based peacebuilding activities. Ultimately, the book defines a new research area linking youth cultures and music with peacebuilding practice and policy.

Youth Civic Engagement and Local Peacebuilding in the Middle East and North Africa

Youth Civic Engagement and Local Peacebuilding in the Middle East and North Africa
Author: Ibrahim Natil
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2021
Genre: Community development
ISBN: 9781032025261

"This book investigates the ways in which young people engage with and contribute to civil society, community development and local peacebuilding in the Middle East and North Africa. Youth engagement and contribution to civil society and local peacebuilding can play a crucial role in development, however there is often a lack of effective engagement, policies and opportunities for young people in policy and practice. This book analyses their experiences of civic engagement and community participation and the challenges they face, across diverse areas including youth empowerment, freedom of expression, mobilisation, ideologies, conflict resolution and peacebuilding. Drawing on cases from Yemen, Syria, Iran, Morocco and the Palestinian Territories, this book offers new insights on how youth are not only are shaped by, but also react to policies, conflict and constraints and challenges. The insights drawn from this interdisciplinary collection will be of interest to researchers of civil society, youth, peacebuilding and development, as well as to policymakers, donors, and NGO staff"--

Sustainable Peace in the Twenty?First Century

Sustainable Peace in the Twenty?First Century
Author: Dilip Vasudeo Kulkarni
Publisher: IAP
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2017-02-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1681237512

“Why haven’t we been successful in finding sustainable solutions?” is a question that this book attempts to address. This book questions the appropriateness of current approaches to international conflict mediation/peacebuilding and whether today’s practitioners have the necessary patience, passion, and training to manage twenty?first?century conflicts. This book also examines whether the current approaches to the mediation of international conflict and peacebuilding, as well as the education in these fields, effectively consider the influence of the post?Cold War environment and whether they address sub?national conflicts caused by the continually increasing social inequality within societies, among parties with different cultural, religious, racial, ethnic, and linguistic backgrounds. The narratives of the lived experiences of this book’s contributors are used to illustrate the challenges associated with achieving sustained global peace in the twenty?first century. Using the author’s conversations with the contributors to the book, as well as educators, this book suggests that a universally adopted answer to the book’s underlying question has not yet been established. Therefore, the objective of this book is to start a public conversation about reforming the current education and practices used in the mediation of international conflicts and peacebuilding. The author hopes that these reforms will enable practitioners in integrating the message of the youth uprisings across the globe in finding sustainable resolutions to social inequality–based conflicts within their societies and among countries across the globe. As all of the citizens of the world continue to live in the midst of conflicts erupting across the globe, this book brings to the surface the urgent and acute need for finding better approaches to address this century’s social inequality?based conflicts. This book seeks to bring hope and to energize individuals with different cultural, religious, ethnic, racial and linguistic backgrounds, as well as individuals with different professional and personal lived experiences to collaboratively work together to achieve sustainable global peace. The author hopes that this book will foster among students, educators, and practitioners a better understanding of international conflict mediators’ approaches for accommodating the inter?relationship between culture and the mediation of international conflicts.

Youth in Conflict and Peacebuilding

Youth in Conflict and Peacebuilding
Author: A. Özerdem
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2015-04-15
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1137314532

This study investigates the role of youth in peacebuilding, and addresses the failure of states and existing research to recognise youths as political actors, which can result in their contribution to peacebuilding being ignored.

Securitizing Youth

Securitizing Youth
Author: Marisa O. Ensor
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2021-04-23
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1978822391

Securitizing Youth offers new insights on young people’s engagement in a wide range of contexts related to the peace and security field. It presents empirical findings on the challenges and opportunities faced by young women and men in their efforts to build more peaceful, inclusive, and environmentally secure societies. The chapters included in this edited volume examine the diversity and complexity of young people’s engagement for peace and security in different countries across the globe and in different types and phases of conflict and violence, including both conflict-affected and relatively peaceful societies. Chapter contributors, young peacebuilders, and seasoned scholars and practitioners alike propose ways to support youth’s agency and facilitate their meaningful participation in decision-making. The chapters are organized around five broad thematic issues that correspond to the 5 Pillars of Action identified by UN Security Council Resolution 2250. Lessons learned are intended to inform the global youth, peace, and security agenda so that it better responds to on-the-ground realities, hence promoting more sustainable and inclusive approaches to long-lasting peace.

Building Sustainable Futures

Building Sustainable Futures
Author: Luc Reychler
Publisher: Universidad de Deusto
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2009-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 8498304733

The overall theme of the 2008 IPRA Global Conference focuses on the interaction between economic development, environmental change, conflict prevention and peacebuilding efforts in the 21st century. The challenge is to re-search new futures. This collaborative book project ultimately reflects the constant evolution of Peace Studies as it is reflected in its expanding areas of research and the institutional structures which provide the vertebrae so that the former can develop with greater depth, continuity and sustainability. This is the reason why HumanitarianNet has teamed up with IPRA to produce this collection of articles.