Panelists:

o   Resilience developed through being attacked and forced out of a community 

o   Hungry for acceptance and would go to great lengths --> tenacity and resilience

§  Knowing you fail many times before you succeed

o   Despite this, there is still violence within the community (skateboarding in this example)

§  Due to a lack of mentorship and leadership 

o   Empowerment and ownership – and the risk that follows (shop break-in example)

o   Look out for the blind spots (engendering the program)

-          Thinking from an ecosystem approach (biological perspective) 

o   Resilience is a spiderweb, if one part gets cut off you can still survive, still move forward

-          Do no harm approach and PYD:

o   Unsustainable expectations for youth following these programs

o   Parallel networks- in order to combat VE (network) you need to establish another network

-          The power of connections

o   Belongingness and purpose- challenging to establish in VE contexts

o   Physical spaces where people feel they belong, social connection and a physical space for belonging

o   How do we create a center of safety? Virtually and physically (unseen places where youth gather where they feel at peace or safe)

§  We must go and meet youth in those places they meet

-          Well-being and human flourishing

o   Articulating the vision of human flourishing and what does that look like?

§  First imagine that for themselves and then sharing with one another- in the process of sharing, discuss the differences together. Unpack the diversity of perspectives on what it means to belong and flourish in a community

o   Instead of someone bringing youth to a new place and dictating, rather go to where the youth are and meet them where they are at

-          Defining what is the “common enemy” is challenging

o   Moving from common enemy to the common shared vision (productive/healthy)

o   Pollution example – whose responsibility is it? Through community mapping they developed a collaborative space which shone light that working together to find solutions possible

o   Building community’s “muscle”- so when stress or shock comes about, you have that social capital in place to help absorb the shock

§  Humanizing the process         

-          Measuring results, how do you tie the results to specific objectives of CVE?

o   Attribution is the hardest to demonstrate

o   Easier to show contribution in these contexts (without counterfactuals)

-          Crossing lines with security, DDR, UN to reach specific groups

o   USA is behind in this regard with reintegration programs 

o   More broadly, working with social workers or the juvenile justice system