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Meaningfully engaging youth in fragile environments

Tue, March 10, 4:45 to 6:15pm, Washington Hilton, Floor: Lobby Level, Piscataway

Session Submission Type: Group Panel

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According to a recent UNFPA report, “the world now has the largest generation of young people ever. Adolescents and youth, those between 10 and 24 years old, accounted for 28 per cent of the world population in 2010.” This generation is facing unprecedented global conflict, uncertainty regarding their futures, and potential access to evolving resources. There is an increasing number of youth living in complex and fragile environments of political decay or economic stagnation whose futures delicately depend on their structural opportunities and environments today. This panel will present three different studies and programs that CARE has led regarding the meaningful engagement of youth who are at risk in fragile environments.

In both the Western Balkans and in Honduras, CARE programming engaged youth in program design and implementation. This programming specifically focused on the development of empowering approaches that developed transferable skills and educational foundations that permit youth to become active members in their communities, shaping positive futures. As a result of these programs, the youth living in fragile communities are taking new roles in their families and surrounding communities.

Fragile environments don’t necessarily have to be sites of physical insecurity in order to have a profound influence on children and youth. Studies show that childhood experience of violence spills over along the way to adulthood as well, and is linked with bullying in school and use of aggression in dating relationships for boys . This panel will also discuss the results of a recent literature review commissioned by CARE regarding the intergenerational transmission of violence, with a focus on school environments and links with the prevalence of gender based violence.

UNFPA (2014). How Has the World Changed in the Last 20 Years? http://www.unfpa.org/public/home/news/pid/16955
Early Intervention Foundation. 2014. Early Intervention in Domestic Violence and Abuse. London: Early Intervention Foundation. Accessed at http://www.eif.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Early-Intervention-in-Domestic-Violence-and-Abuse-Full-Report.pdf; Ehrensaft and Cohen. 2012. Contribution of Family Violence to the Intergenerational Transmission of Externalizing Behavior. Prev Sci, 13: 370-383. (p. 380); Franklin and Kercher. 2012. The Intergenerational Transmission of Intimate Partner Violence: Differentiating Correlates in a Random Community Sample. Journal of Family Violence, 27: 187-199. (p. 188-189); Laporte et al. 2011. The Relationship Between Adolescents’ Experience of Family Violence and Dating Violence. Youth Society, 43(1): 3-27; Millet et al. 2013. Child Maltreatment Victimization and Subsequent Perpetration of Young Adult Intimate Partner Violence: An Exploration of Mediating Factors. Child Maltreatment 18(2): 71-84.

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