Youth, Peacebuilding and the Role of Education

• In Event: Education, youth, peace and security - lessons from the “The Missing Peace: Progress Study on Youth, Peace and Security.”

Proposal

This paper reflects on ways in which education systems (formal and non-formal) and actors are related to the five pillars that constitute the basis of UNSCR 2250 (participation, protection, prevention, partnership, disengagement and reintegration). It outlines key drivers of violence and inequality within and/or fostered by education, and discusses the transformative potential of various educational spaces. Specific examples of challenges and pitfalls as well as of the support that education can offer young people in endeavors to address conflict and build peace offer insight into the necessary key steps to design and implement effective formal and non-formal mechanisms for learning and transformation.

Author

• Mieke Lopes Cardozo, University of Amsterdam