Mainstreaming youth into AU’s peace and security agenda

Published on 17 June 2020 in Research / Policy Briefs

Mainstreaming youth into AU’s peace and security agenda

To support Africa's development, stakeholders must promote meaningful youth participation.

The African Union, keen to mainstream the continent’s youth into the peace and security arena, inaugurated its Youth for Peace Africa Program in September 2018. This policy brief interrogates some of the consequent developments in Africa’s youth, peace and security agenda. It calls on all stakeholders to recognise their individual and collective roles both to enable and to promote active contributions by youth to peace and security – two prerequisites for Africa’s development.

About the authors

Rhuks Ako, Mfrekeobong Ukpanah, Orit Ibrahim and Hannah Mamo are with the Youth for Peace Africa Program, African Union Commission, Addis Ababa.

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Development partners

This policy brief is published in partnership with the African Union and as part of the Training for Peace Programme (TfP), which is funded by the government of Norway. The ISS is also grateful for support from the members of the ISS Partnership Forum: the Hanns Seidel Foundation, the European Union and the governments of Canada, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and the USA.