An international framework that recognises the important and positive role of youth in peace and security.
The Youth, Peace and Security agenda is an international framework that recognises the important and positive role of youth in maintaining and promoting peace and security. It affirms that youth should be active partners in preventing conflicts, building peace, participating in decision-making, and protecting communities.
In the Palestinian context, this agenda takes on particular importance given the political, social and economic challenges youth face, and given their capacity for initiative, leadership, and building new spaces for dialogue and participation.
UN Security Council Resolution 2250 is the first UN resolution focused specifically on youth, peace and security. It recognises youth’s positive contribution to peacebuilding and calls for their meaningful inclusion in peace processes, conflict resolution, violence prevention, and decision-making.
Ensuring the participation of young women and men in decision-making and in peace processes, negotiation, violence prevention, and the design of policies and programmes that affect their lives and futures.
Protecting young women and men from violence, violations and exclusion, and ensuring respect for their rights and dignity during and after conflict.
Supporting youth in preventing violence and conflicts, and strengthening a culture of dialogue, tolerance and cooperation within communities.
Engaging youth as genuine partners with community, national and international institutions in designing and implementing peacebuilding strategies.
Supporting youth affected by conflicts through education, employment opportunities, community participation, and programmes that strengthen a culture of peace.
From 2250 to 2535: three resolutions that build the Youth, Peace and Security agenda.
The founding resolution
The first UN resolution devoted to youth, peace and security; it recognises their positive role and sets out the five pillars for action.
Youth in peace processes
Calls for a greater role for youth in negotiating and implementing peace agreements, and for their inclusion in preventing and resolving conflict.
From commitment to implementation
Calls for the agenda to be institutionalised and for the protection of youth and civic space, and requests a report from the Secretary-General every two years on its implementation.
Because Palestinian youth live directly with the effects of conflict, restrictions, violence, unemployment, educational challenges, and social division. At the same time, youth have the capacity to turn these experiences into a community force for change through initiative, dialogue, mediation and advocacy.
The network seeks to translate the Youth, Peace and Security agenda into practical steps in the Palestinian reality by training youth, supporting their participation, documenting their initiatives, and opening communication channels between them and decision-makers.
Meaningful participation does not mean youth merely attending workshops or meetings; it means they have a real role in: