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Join us for 60 days of learning to highlight the connections among youth, peace and gender equality. We’ll celebrate the stories of young women and men working for peace, and we’ll exchange crucial skills and approaches for building more inclusive societies. 

Spotlight Video

Are you a youth working to promote gender equality? Do you have a story to share? Film a 1-2 minute video answering the questions below. Tweet your video at #YouthPeaceEquality and you may end up as one of our spotlight videos.

  • In what ways do you promote gender equality through your work?
  • What is important to you about promoting gender equality?
  • What is an experience in your life that helps us understand why you focus on inclusion in your work?

For Nada, Azza, and Nourhan, acceptance into the Maadi STEM School in Cairo was a dream come true. Only 120 students are chosen from across Egypt. In every region in the world, women and girls are underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, and math, denying them opportunities in education, entrepreneurship and finance that could help break the cycle of poverty.

Today’s generation of youth, at 1.8 billion, is the largest the world has ever known. Because many of them live in countries ravaged by violent conflict, the world too often sees boys or young men only as perpetrators of violence, and young women or girls as victims. But they also can be constructive agents for peace, and one prerequisite for peace is equality -- in education and in leadership. #YouthPeaceEquality

Gender Resources

The resources below address a range of dimensions around gender and peacebuilding. Know of a good resource that’s missing. Tweet it at #YouthPeaceEquality. 

Resources on Security Council Resolution 1325 

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Publications/ Articles  

Toolkits and Exercises

Youth Resources

The resources below address a range of dimensions around youth and peacebuilding. Know of a good resource that’s missing. Tweet it at #YouthPeaceEquality.

United Nations Security Council Resolution 2250 
Youth, Peace and Security  

Videos 

Toolkits 

Audio

Articles/Blogs 

Publications 

Latest Publications

En Venezuela, la acción no violenta es clave para una transición democrática negociada

En Venezuela, la acción no violenta es clave para una transición democrática negociada

Thursday, August 15, 2024

By: Consuelo Amat, Ph.D.;  Matthew D. Cebul, Ph.D.;  Maria Antonia Montes

El 28 de julio, Venezuela celebró una de las elecciones más importantes de su historia. La oposición política del país, liderada por María Corina Machado, superó la desilusión popular, las divisiones políticas y un sistema electoral amañado para obtener una aplastante victoria para su candidato de unidad, Edmundo González Urrutia. Según un grupo de la sociedad civil, los cálculos «extrapolados de los recibos oficiales del conteo de votos» de una muestra representativa de centros de votación locales otorgan a González el 66% de los votos. La oposición venezolana respondió al momento con una inspirada campaña prodemocracia.

Type: Analysis

Democracy & Governance;  Mediation, Negotiation & Dialogue;  Nonviolent Action

Maduro afirma victoria en una elección disputada, devolviendo a Venezuela al punto cero

Maduro afirma victoria en una elección disputada, devolviendo a Venezuela al punto cero

Wednesday, July 31, 2024

By: Keith Mines

Después de meses de arduas negociaciones y diplomacia entre el régimen de Maduro, la oposición venezolana y la comunidad internacional, los venezolanos finalmente acudieron a las urnas en las elecciones presidenciales del país el pasado domingo. Las encuestas habían mostrado consistentemente al candidato opositor Edmundo González camino a una victoria aplastante, y los datos del día de la elección revelaron que los votantes estaban dispuestos a poner fin a más de una década de control de Nicolás Maduro sobre el país.

Type: Question and Answer

Democracy & Governance

How Fumio Kishida Shaped Japan’s Foreign Policy

How Fumio Kishida Shaped Japan’s Foreign Policy

Thursday, August 22, 2024

By: Mirna Galic

Earlier this month, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida made the surprise announcement that he would not seek another term. Although he was prime minister for less than four years, Kishida’s foreign policy legacy spans strategic and tactical advances in Japan’s defense and diplomatic posture. His approach represented both a continuation of and divergence from the legacy of his former boss, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, under whom Kishida acted as Japan’s longest-serving foreign minister. Although Kishida’s successes on foreign affairs were overshadowed by domestic political scandals involving his Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), as well as lack-luster economic growth, he oversaw increases in Japan’s reputation and popularity in the region and globally, as well as the institutionalization of related partnership gains.

Type: Analysis

Global Policy

Southeast Asia Web Scams Reach U.S., Setting Off Alarms for Law Enforcement

Southeast Asia Web Scams Reach U.S., Setting Off Alarms for Law Enforcement

Wednesday, August 21, 2024

By: Priscilla A. Clapp;  Erin West

From their base in ungoverned stretches of Southeast Asia, international criminal networks are prowling the Internet, seeking to defraud victims around the world with sophisticated and psychologically devastating scams. Gangsters operating out of Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos, relying on forced labor, have spread their tentacles through Asia, Africa and Latin America and increasingly within the United States, stripping gullible prey of at least $64 billion annually. Clearly, to eradicate such a global menace will require a coordinated international response. Even so, the United States is not internally powerless to confront this striking example of how conflict and corrupt governance in distant parts of the world can directly threaten Americans’ security and well-being.

Type: Analysis

Economics;  Global Policy

Why Is the U.S. Deploying Long-Range Missiles in Germany?

Why Is the U.S. Deploying Long-Range Missiles in Germany?

Wednesday, August 21, 2024

By: Yashar Parsie

On the sidelines of last month’s NATO summit, the United States and Germany announced that Washington will begin episodic deployments of long-range conventional capabilities to Germany. In 1987, the United States and Soviet Union agreed to eliminate these systems under the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty, but Russia’s violations led the United States to withdraw from the treaty in 2019. Three years later, Russia invaded Ukraine and has engaged in nuclear saber-rattling since then. Washington plans to deploy these systems to strengthen deterrence, but Moscow has criticized them.

Type: Question and Answer

Global Policy

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