PAVE Training Module 3

Section outline

• It is vital to align your youth-responsive approaches within your community-level P/CVE initiatives to those at the national and global levels to ensure you are being as effective and coherent as possible for policy and programmatic coherence. This includes complementing the existing frameworks that exist to promote a greater mutual understanding across discrete P/CVE and policy and practitioner communities. Youth-sensitive P/CVE policies and practices, together with international frameworks, can facilitate youth-responsive approaches to disengagement, reintegration and rehabilitation of members of violent extremist and terrorist organizations.

  One of the most important international frameworks to align with is the Youth Peace and Security Agenda – (UN Security Council Resolution 2250 on Youth, Peace and Security), the first international policy framework that recognizes the positive role young people play in preventing and resolving conflict, countering violent extremism and building peace passed on 9 December 2015. The Resolution, in addition to the UN Youth Strategy and UN Security Council Resolution 2419 on the Maintenance of International Peace and Security (2018) “calls on all relevant actors to take into account, the meaningful participation and views of youth, recognizing that their marginalization is detrimental to building sustainable peace and countering violent extremism as and when conducive to terrorism.’’ 

  Listen to youth peacebuilder Hajer Sharief, PAVE Advisory Board Member in this video, ‘’Is UN Security Resolution Youth, Peace and Security Important?’’

  Source: Together We Build It. “Is UN Security Council Resolution on Youth, Peace and Security Important? Answered by Hajer Sharief.'' 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70d4lL6SF-Y.

  Currently, only three countries have National Action Plans on Youth, Peace and Security: Nigeria, Colombia and Finland. There is an important opportunity that local initiatives have in being able to design and help implement National Action Plans on Youth, Peace and Security in all PAVE-focused countries and connecting them to ongoing efforts around P/CVE, including relevant youth-focused and led initiatives.

  While none of the PAVE-focused countries currently have National Action Plans on Youth, Peace and Security, the importance of engaging youth is highlighted in several of them. For example, the Bosnia-Herzegovina National Strategy for Preventing and Combating Violent Extremism mentions as part of its mission is to strengthen the role of civil society, especially the youth. Lebanon’s National Action Plan on Preventing Violent Extremism also dedicates an entire pillar within the plan focused on empowering youth. Many of the PAVE countries also have youth-focused engagement programs. The Kosovo Young Leaders Program worked with diverse youth communities through a phased approach, which features job entrepreneurship, civic engagement training, and conflict prevention. These phases were followed by engaging Albanian and Serbian youth leaders to implement joint projects. The Tunisian youth nonprofit organization, Youth Against Terrorism, focused on improving community-policing and training of police in community relations, as well as, helping to revise educational curricula manuals to increase focus on critical thinking and peaceful tenets of Islam. 

  As part of the findings of the PAVE project, it was recommended that gaps in policies relating to violent extremism and youth engagement be addressed specifically. Experts are needed to help drive policies that safeguard and protect the rights of youth and children. Governments within both of the regions should develop a strategic plan for PVE within primary and secondary schools to support critical thinking and different nuances in socio-economic issues that often lead to radicalization, such as media literacy.

  
  
  

How to Incorporate a Youth Perspective Within Your P/CVE Efforts

Jump to... Main learning site Welcome to Training Module 3 PAVE Consortium Session 1 Objectives and Expected Results What does Inclusivity Mean in the Context of P/CVE? But What Does Power Have to Do With it? Balancing Power Part 1: Gender Understanding the Gendered Push and Pull Factors The Critical Role of Women Within P/CVE Efforts What Did the PAVE Project Discover Regarding Gender? Balancing Power Part 2: Youth The Critical Role of Youth Within P/CVE efforts and Push and Pull Factors What Did the PAVE Project Discover Regarding Youth Balancing Power Part 3: Marginalized Communities The Critical Role of Marginalized Communities Within P/CVE Efforts and Push and Pull Factors What Did the PAVE Project Discover Regarding the Impact of Violent Extremism on Marginalized Communities? Additional Resources for Session 1 Session 2 Objectives and Goals How to Gender Mainstream Your P/CVE Efforts How to Connect the Gendered Aspects of Your P/CVE Efforts to the National and Global Levels How to Incorporate a Youth Perspective Within Your P/CVE Efforts How to Apply An Intersectional Perspective to Your P/CVE Efforts How to Connect the Intersectional Aspects of Your P/CVE Efforts to the National and Global Levels Your Inclusivity Checklist Additional Resources for Session 2 Session 3 Objectives and Goals Key Considerations for Building Multi-stakeholder Collaboration and Trust Guidelines for a Successful Dialogue Community Dialogue Around Advancing Inclusivity Within Your P/CVE Efforts Additional Resources for Session 3 Print Your Course Certificate

How to Apply An Intersectional Perspective to Your P/CVE Efforts