Monthly Roundup - June 2020
[WEBINAR] YOUTH, COVID-19, AND CRISIS RESPONSE IN CONFLICT AFFECTED AREAS: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES
Bright Colors on a World Canvas
“In the world’s largest refugee camps, Max Frieder is using art to fight COVID-19 and gender-based violence, and heal the scars of genocide.”
The Rohingya have no written language, making art a critical medium for public health messaging. (Photo: TC Archives)
Painting Peace with Former Child Soldiers | The Poza Project w/ Exile International & Jeremy Cowart
Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration Programming With Colombia’s Youth
“This paper argues for further recognizing, facilitating, and enhancing the young Colombians’ role in the reconciliation process as well as in guaranteeing the successful, collective, and community-based socio-economic reintegration of FARC ex-combatants. Including Colombian youth as key agents in the reconciliation and reintegration process is particularly relevant in the context of resolution 2250 on Youth, Peace and Security (YPS) adopted in December 2015 by the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), which recognizes “the important role youth can play in the prevention and resolution of conflicts and as a key aspect of the sustainability, inclusiveness, and success of peacekeeping and peacebuilding efforts.” The YPS resolution has been a landmark in changing the long-standing narrative that portrays youth as a security threat to be contained, victims of conflict, or simply passive beneficiaries of post-conflict peacebuilding. It recognizes their potential to be agents of positive change and highlights their own peacebuilding efforts.”
