What motivated you to embrace the position of Regional Coordinator for East and Southern Africa? Born in a rural area in Burundi, at 5 years I fled to Tanzania where I spent more than 7…
an insider’s perspective It is a sunny and warm day when UNOY members from all over the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) are meeting in Amman, Jordan to take part in UNOY’s Protection and…
In the second iteration of this pivotal protection blog series, we draw attention to age-based discrimination and harassment. Functioning in the same way as other forms of discrimination and harassment, ageism can have serious implications…
We are launching this pivotal protection blog series to draw attention to the urgent and diverse protection issues young people in development, peace and security work are facing on a daily basis. In this blog…
In 2019, UNOY Peacebuilders published a study mapping the progress on the implementation of the Youth, Peace, and Security (YPS) agenda in the European Union (EU). The study highlighted the EU’s support of youth-led peacebuilding…
People who soar are those who refuse to sit back, sigh and wish things would change. They neither complain of their lot nor passively dream of some distant ship coming in. Rather, they visualize in…
Did you miss the High-Level Global Conference on Youth-Inclusive Peace Processes? No worries! We’ve captured the best bits just for you. More than 130 people attended the virtual conference on the 19th (for a youth-only…
As we notice a general tendency to over-request youth participation without adequate benefits, the question ‘what is meaningful youth engagement?’ has taken on a new colour. It is becoming the norm to call for youth…
Call for an Immediate and Transparent Process to Fill the position of the African Union Office of the Youth Envoy The United Network of Young Peacebuilders (UNOY) and members of its African Youth Advocacy Team…
The 2021 United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Youth Forum held virtually between 7–8 April 2021. This 10th Anniversary of the ECOSOC Youth Forum marked the largest gathering of young people in the United…
The theme of this year’s International Peace Day was ‘Shaping Peace Together’, which is precisely what the United Network of Young Peacebuilders is all about. We’ve captured some of the incredible initiatives that UNOY Peacebuilders across…
Written by the UNOY African Youth Advocacy Team (A-YAT) The African Union (AU) vowed to ‘Silence the Guns’ of armed conflict by the year 2020. Yet here we are and the guns remain deafening. Why…
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