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In light of the 10th anniversary, what are the key achievements we want to celebrate?

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In light of the 10th anniversary, what are the key achievements we want to celebrate?

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What are the major changes in the world that are influencing the YPS Agenda?

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What are the major changes in the world that are influencing the YPS Agenda?

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How should the YPS Agenda be fit for purpose in the coming years? What are the common messages we want to advocate for?

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How should the YPS Agenda be fit for purpose in the coming years? What are the common messages we want to advocate for?

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Definitely more UN mention and work on YPS

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Definitely more UN mention and work on YPS

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Normative recognition that youth are not always vicims or perpetrators and thet have posituve role in peacebulding as well

As it is a UNSC resolution countries are bound to develop National Actions Plans and carry it forward

Intersectionality of Youth Peace and Secuity and Women Peace and Security

Localization - local governments being invited for the decision making

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3 UNSCR as legimitization of the agenda, many NAPS ongoing, socialization of YPS and youth identifying themmselves with agenda.

Mention of youth in the action plans, more governments are mentioning youth at NAPS on WPS and YPS, more private sector involved in peacebuilding work

NAP on YPS recognized by the Leage of Arab Sate Summit. And Arab strategy adopted.

YPS coalitions at the national level are growing over the past 10 years. Youth in countries and led by local actors.

Intergenerational dialgoue are better. Organizations are pushing for intergenerational and intersectorial dialogue

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More resources that are available for youth

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More resources that are available for youth

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2 other succeeding resolutions that make YPS a normative agenda that can be leveraged by youth

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2 other succeeding resolutions that make YPS a normative agenda that can be leveraged by youth

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Current war and conflict happening - wherein there are young people who want to engage. While it is difficult for young people to engage, there are opportunities opening up in different avenues.

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Current war and conflict happening - wherein there are young people who want to engage. While it is difficult for young people to engage, there are opportunities opening up in different avenues.

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Governments becoming more restrictive and no youth are interested (don't see the opportunity) of engaging with civil society movements

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nationalism and moving away from multilateralism

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Youth being pushed to go against governments and not choose peace because of these institutions 

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Youth being pushed to go against governments and not choose peace because of these institutions 

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Youth being invited but their role being minor as the political will is low and there are structural barriers.

Funding barriers

Lack on National level participation - only very few NAPs being passed around the world

Insitutional backlash and shrinking civic spaces in many regions (e.g. Eastern Europe), where youth human rights defenders face imprisonment or violence.

Mostly "Peace" part being highlites as if "security" is less important

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More wars, conflict is even more protracted, making it difficult for diplomacy

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More wars, conflict is even more protracted, making it difficult for diplomacy

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Consistent coordination (GCYPS) and keeping the agenda focused.

Solidarity across borders and nations among youth and actors.

Member states and stakeholders' commitment and willingness to support youth inclusive peace process.

Increasing NAP development process

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disinformation and misinformation is ruining social cohesion in many places

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absence of meaningful platforms for youth to engage in discussions around peace and security

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The importance of localization and digitalization of the YPS agenda in marginalized communities

There is a need for disaggregated data on how youth are participating in peacebuilding

Important to secure funding of YPS-related work

Increasing global collaboration, for example exchanges/coming together from different parts of the world

Important to continue to recognize the interlinkages between the WPS agenda and the YPS agenda, advancing a gender lens on the YPS agenda

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Global challenge: funding cuts, youth receive low fuding from international development cooperation.

Government more restrictive and adoption of other actors. Influencing work, no youth that want to involve in CSos, its problematic. Before they were interested on leading the change,now they

Militarization and securitization is bringing back youth-related narratives as a problem to be contained. Shinked civic spaces online and offline.

How youth navigate polarization, consecuences on socila cohesion of communities. How to navigate challenges.

Spaces for youth at the local level are limited in platforms. Official dialogues, peace talks.

Space for youth is an increased rethoric Military service for youth, work ethos. Dialogues ongoing and we spend time talking about war rather than peace and prevention. youth are placed at the frontlines of military ethos

War discourse is being increasingly normalized.

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We see a lot of government support/governments helping to implement the YPS agenda in some countries and a lack of support from other governments (which is a big challenge)

Current dynamic of rivalry between different actors is a challenge (eg youth civil society-non-youth civil society, young people-gov)

A current challenge is that we have multiple youth actors coming from different backgrounds which traduces in diverse approaches to the same agenda. Not 100% agreement about the YPS agenda.

Shrinking civic space

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More NAPs/national approaches that are implemented and resourced , more youth delegates at negotiation tables

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Taking advantage of new technologies

Ensuring accessibility (from further engagement of youth with disabilities to translating resources into several languages)

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1. Ensure that staff capacity is fully dedicated to YPS (within the UN system at least)

2. Continue applying a youth lens to projects (ensuring a certain number of young people participating, including young women, etc.)

3. Develop AI/Digital tools to ensure dissemination of ideas/data while ensuring accessibility to these tools (languages availability, user-friendly app, alternatives for young people who don't necessarily have an easy/efficient access to internet)

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stronger advocacy and institutional recognition of youth volunteering as a powerful driver of peacebuilding and resilience. This includes integrating volunteering into national action plans, financing youth-led volunteer initiatives, and creating enabling environments for young volunteers to contribute meaningfully to peace

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This GCYPS!!! We've been regularly meeting for the last 10 years!!! Some people have come and gone and some have stayed! How beautiful is that! We've literally grown 10 years together!!!!

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This GCYPS!!! We've been regularly meeting for the last 10 years!!! Some people have come and gone and some have stayed! How beautiful is that! We've literally grown 10 years together!!!!

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Institutionalised YPS - having clear focal points. While mainstreaming is okay, it’s good to have a clear focal point for sustainability and accountability

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Institutionalised YPS - having clear focal points. While mainstreaming is okay, it’s good to have a clear focal point for sustainability and accountability

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Having funding - flexible for youth and reaching the most marginalised

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Having funding - flexible for youth and reaching the most marginalised

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Building on the intersectionality of youth in putting them as a priority within peacebuilding

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Building on the intersectionality of youth in putting them as a priority within peacebuilding

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PMEL can be a connecting dot between all the issues raised - such an intersectionality, localization etc.

Building evidence-based accountability mechanisms.

Raising funding so that what is on paper can be enforced

Making sure that Youth with disabilities meanigfully involved in the process

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More NAPs

More youth at negotiation tables.

Funding, flexible funding even in restrictive enviro

National mechanisms on YPS , not necessarily a NAP but looking on existing mechanisms and how make them work for the YPS agenda.

Intergenerational dioalgoues (Millenials YPS) continuity and mutual learning

YPS as a globla agenda and not only an agenda planned for the Global South or a Foreign Policy agenda. YOS is not only for countries affected by country

Participation to more power. To invest for more peace. Power of youth as main actors. There are many organizations, how do we make it real.

That more people in our countries feel identified with the agenda and that they know what youth-related legal frameworks and institutions exist so the YPS adapts to the contextand not vceversa.

YOS agenda, youth friendly platforms with direct communicaition

Flexible, core and long-term funding. Funding is a main constraint. Directing oyung people in how alliances work collectively

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As funding is drastically cut to 'life saving' (basic needs) at international level, we need to advocate for the need to continue to invest in YPS and youth, peace and security activity in conflict contexts, as the return on investment is clear in terms of securing more peaceful futures.

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Funding is a main limitation for youth. We need Funding that is core, flexible, long-term

Agenda YPS that is seen beyond a South glob agenda or a Foreign Ministry agenda

Intergenerational dialogues Millenial- Gen Z so we have a full history of YPS agenda and mutual learning

More NAPs, or more National Mechanisms that represent YPS.

Communication, language that is youth-related.

Socialize more the YPS agenda. National Coallitions are strong, but sometimes do not have broad representation. We need that young people working with peace (understood at the broadest levels) identify themselves with the agenda and that they know the existing leagal frameoworks and institutions nationally, so that YPS adapts to the context and not viceversa

More balanced relationships among all actors involved at YPS (multi-level)

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We have to take a step back and ask ourselves if the systems are working - are NAPs the most effective mechanism in the context of YPS appropriation? Are they co-developed meaningfully/substantively by youth? Are they contributing to re-distributing power to youth actors? Are the institutions (UN, govt, INGOs) truly co-creating and power-sharing with youth? Is youth agency and leadership truly facilitated and ensured through NAP processes, outcomes and impacts?

(Additions from Katrina Leclerc, kleclerc@ustpaul.ca -- apologies for missing the meeting.)

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Significant increase of countries having YPS conversations, coalitions, NAPs...

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Significant increase of countries having YPS conversations, coalitions, NAPs...

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Localise beyond capitals. Resource rural and hard-to-reach youth.

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Invest in YPS, especially youth-led projects on peace and security

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Since AI tools are everywhere, how can we reduce the misuse of AI?

Certain regulations should be in place for proper child development.

Promote Digital and AI literacy through courses.

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Think about the digital divide and how the lack of access to new technologies can further marginalization

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Youth-led protests / Gen Z movements seem to be the only way young people are actually heard and seen. There is a spill-over effect from a country to another - even a sense of coalition. How can the YPS space help connect the different Gen Z movements, to ensure that beyond/after the protests youth are able to obtain change and be included 

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Youth-led protests / Gen Z movements seem to be the only way young people are actually heard and seen. There is a spill-over effect from a country to another - even a sense of coalition. How can the YPS space help connect the different Gen Z movements, to ensure that beyond/after the protests youth are able to obtain change and be included 

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Encourage development of NAPs

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Youth are already interacting with different parts of society. Youth-led activities exist broadly. But it seems like space is not expanding but shrinking. Key stakeholders are not responding until the youth decide to be on the street. While the poor coping strategies are hurting the youth.

Promote Youth Political Awareness

Being engaged with local facilities

Critical thinking ability is more important than ever in this AI world.

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For national actors/gov'ts: youth are a solution for all areas even beyond YPS, not something that can be set aside

For global actors/funders: investing is youth is the smart, most efficient approach in a time of austerity, an avenue for robust results on peace and development, but it requires letting them lead (localization)

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Emerging technologies and social media as a force for good

Tech for YPS

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Developing more capacity for young people and continue to provide/avail resources that can support the designing of programs focused on creating lasting impact at the community level.

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We want to see governments held accountable for how the treat and act towards young people:

Explanations for oppression and restriction of youth voices.

Explanations for withdrawal of support.

Explanations for stripping back protections and rights.

Explanations for withdrawing funding.

We should demand to know why YPS spaces are being deprioritised!

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10 years of YPS: Time to move beyond lip service.

A decade later, youth still wait for real inclusion.

YPS at 10: Promises made, action delayed.

From resolutions to reality - where is the commitment?

Ten years of lip service. Where’s the transformation?

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Collect disaggregated data on youth in the context of YPS

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Advocate for the inclusion of a budget line for protection risks into YPS projects

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1. Connect the YPS and WPS agendas across generations. Advance WPS and YPS together through intergenerational collaboration and joint action in advocacy, financing and policy.

2. Protect civic space for young women peacebuiders. Young women need safe and open spaces to participate, online and offline.

3. Support real leadership beyond tokenism. Move beyond symbolic participation by ensuring young women have an active role and influence in peace and security decision-making.

4. Invest in young women peacebuilders. Provide predictable and flexible funding that reaches young women’s organizations and sustains their work on the ground.

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Key messaging around investing in sustainable youth-led YPS initiatives, identifying a common narrative around the transformative potential of YPS, “take young people out of the box” working with and understanding youth instead of considering them as a monolith, “young people do not want to be treated as a special group,” they are competant and able, they just want a space at the table. Existing frameworks do not recognize the participation of youth in peacebuildign as important, there need to be legal and policy framrworks that put youth at the center of peace and security processes.
- Prioritize localizing the agenda and focusing on local contexts, there are increased focuses on thata in NAPs but less of a focus on a local and subnational level which could be more accessible to young people.

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Center young women, LGBTQI+ youth, and marginalised communities.

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Support youth-led Negotiations and Mediation 

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Support youth-led Negotiations and Mediation 

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Recognizing the role young peacebuilders are playing in carrying negotiations and cease fire agreements, for example, in the context of Quibdó in Colombia, having a better chance of achieving this by relating with their youth counterparts in the armed groups. Nurturing their mediation and negotiation skills can be key.

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How can we support and advocate for each other. We need to stress the importance of this community and keeping it strong in the face of stripped back support from our partners.

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Recast youth not as an issue or worse adversary, but rather as a solution to emerging problems. Tighter funding for all sectors? --> invest in youth as an effective, efficient way pursuing progress in all areas, with YPS as a lens for other issues or areas. Restrictions on speech and democratic backsliding? --> Invest in positive, peaceful, meaningful youth engagement centered on human rights and participation as a bulwark to consolidated authoritarianism. Need to figure out how to integrate localization in aid/peace/dev? --> Youth are whom you talk to. ... We should advocate not just for youth voices to be heard and listened to, but also that youth be seen as partners in progress (with that requiring them being empowered in decision-making, planning, implementation, etc.)

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As repression and speech crackdowns expand, protecting youth needs to be elevated as an advocacy message. This needs to go beyond advocating for the immediate protective actions (though those are still essential!) and also focus on advocating for youth to be recognized as a legitimate constituency within the a society, not a problem from the outside that needs to be dealt with.

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Acknowledging the pivotal role of volunteers and calling for comprehensive collection of disaggregated data on youth volunteers in YPS. Tracking age, gender, disability, and other key characteristics ensures inclusive representation and maximizes the impact of youth volunteers engagement in peace and security.

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Acknowledging the pivotal role of volunteers and calling for comprehensive collection of disaggregated data on youth volunteers in YPS. Tracking age, gender, disability, and other key characteristics ensures inclusive representation and maximizes the impact of youth volunteers engagement in peace and security.