Youth as a Catalyst for Peace: Helping youth develop the vision, skills, and behaviors to promote peace

Based on AED’s experiences with youth development, this document shows that youth are much more likely to choose peaceful resolutions to conflicts if they have strong self-esteem and strong connections to their own community, a sense of empowerment to make decisions, opportunities to get to know youth who are different from them and have access to job training and employment.

Academy for Educational Development, Center for Civil Society and Governance, AED, Washington, D.C., 2005.

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