PROGRESS STUDY YPS COUNTRY-FOCUSED RESEARCH

Country Title Author/Organization Commissioned 1 BURUNDI The Long and Winding Road to Peace in Burundi: The Role of Youth Tracy Dexter 2 Youth, Security and Peace: Brazil Revisited Rob Muggah 3 COLOMBIA Case Study: Schools of Youth Leadership for Social Transformation in UNDP the Department (Region) of Nariño, Colombia 4 COTE Youth Speak Out! Participatory analysis of their engagement for Interpeace D’IVOIRE peace and security in Côte d’Ivoire 5 JAMAICA Youth, Peace and Security Case -study: Jamaica Elizabeth Ward 6 Youth, Peace and Security in Kenya Olaw ale Isma il

7 LIBYA The Libyan Youth Today: Opportunities and Challenges UNFPA 8 “Aaba Hamro Paalo” (It’s Our Time Now): Search for Common Youth experiences of conflict, violence and Ground in Nepal 9 NORTHERN Youth, Peace and Securi ty in the Northern Triangle of Central Interpeace TRIANGLE America 10 Young People and their Role in the Government of the Philippines Michael Alar (GPH) and Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) Peace Negotiations 11 SOUTH “Telling their stories” – South Africa Case Study ACCORD AFRICA 12 Reformed Warriors Mercy Corps 13 USA Youth, Peace and Security: A Study of the United States SIPA , Columbia University Submitted 14 CENTRAL Organization of American Youth, Peace and Security in the Americas: Risks and Opportunities AMERICA & States for Central American and Caribbean Youth CARIBBEAN 15 COLOMBIA The Consequences of Social Exclusion and Inequality: Youth, Peace Organization of American and Security in the Americas States 16 COLOMBIA Advanced Consortium on Cooperation, Conflict and Progress Study on Youth, Peace and Security: Medellín Case Study Complexity, Columbia University 17 COLOMBIA Elena Butti , University of Involving non-organised 'outcast' youths in peacebuilding Oxford 18 DRC United Nations Peacekeeping Engagement with Youth: MONUSCO DPKO Case Study 19 HORN OF Being and Becoming a Peacebuilder Life and Peace Institute AFRICA 20 JAMAICA Youth Perspectives on Social Participation: The missing link in the Commonwealth development of anti-gang strategy in Jamaica? Secretariat 21 Disaster Recovery and Youth, Peace and Security: Examining the Soka Gakkai International Project ‘The SOKA Global Action’

Most of the research will be published on the youth4peace.info website in the course of 2018

The views expressed in this publication do not necessarily represent the views of the United Nations or any of its affiliated organizations. The boundaries, colors, denominations, and other information shown on any map in this work do not imply any judgement on the part of the United Nations concerning the legal status of any territory or the endorsement or acceptance of such boundaries PROGRESS STUDY YPS 22 KOSOVO * Young People’s Role in Preventing Violent Extremism: Context, UNDP Perceptions and Solutions – Kosovo* Case Study

*References to Kosovo should be understood in the context of Security Council Resolution 1244 (1999) 23 Youth engagement in peace and development: Myanmar Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation 24 PAKISTAN Young People’s Role in Preventing Violent Extremism: Context, UNDP Perceptions and Solutions – Pakistan Case Study

25 TUNISIA Strengthening Youth Engagement in Post -Jasmine Revolution Tunisia Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation 26 Young People’s Role in Preventing Violent Extremism: Context, UNDP Perceptions and Solutions – Yemen Case Study

PROGRESS STUDY YPS FOCUS GROUP DISCUSSIONS

Country Organization Commissioned 1 AFGHANISTAN Conciliation Resources 2 GEORGIA (A bkhazia ) Conciliation Resources 3 INDIA and PAKISTAN (Kashmir) Conciliation Resources 4 IRAQ Megan Kelly, as well as Adnan Hussein, Mamoun Zawity, Zeravan Germavy, and Sadiq Hamid from Supportive Spirit for Solidarity Organization 5 KYRGYZSTAN Peace Nexus 6 NIGER Search, Peace Nexus 7 Search for Common Ground 8 PALESTINE Interpeace

9 SOUTH Conciliation Resources 10 SWEDEN Interpeace, Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation, Fryshuset 11 TUNISIA Search for Common Ground 12 UK (Ogaden Diaspora) Conciliation Resources 13 YEMEN Saferworld Submitted 14 Refugee Settings: Algeria, Chad, Colombia, Eritrea, UNHCR Ethiopia, Kenya, , Rwanda, Thailand, , Venezuela 15 Aspire Network 16 PHILIPPINES World Vision 17 SRI LANKA SFCG, UNV, UNFPA and FAO, CSOs and World Vision Lanka, Search for Common Ground, Sri Lanka Unites, Hashtag Generation, International Youth Alliance for Peace, Rotaract, Open House International, and Helvetas 18 YEMEN UNDP

PROGRESS STUDY YPS THEMATIC PAPERS

Title Author /Organization Commissioned 1 Mano Dura: the costs and benefits of repressive Robert Muggah, Juan Carlos Garz ón and Manuela criminal justice for young people in Latin America Su árez, Igarap é Institute 2 Digitally -enabled Peace and Security: Reflections for SecDev Group the Youth, Peace and Security Agenda 3 Youth, Violent Conflict and Sustaining Peace: Patricia Justino, Institute of Development Studies, for Quantitative Evidence and Future Directions UNDP & PBSO Submitted 4 Youth Participation in Parliaments and Peace and Inter -Parliamentary Union Security 5 Implementing UNSCR 2250: Youth and Religions United States Institute of Peace Actors Engaging for Peace 6 The Youth Space of Dialogue and Mediation Mir Mubashir, Berghof Foundation with support from Finnish Church Aid 7 Young People on the Move and their engagement in UNHCR Peace & Security: Case Study from the North of Central America and South Sudan 8 Young women and security, and the gender UN Women dimensions to the YPS agenda 9 Analysis of UNSCR 2250 in terms of gender -just peace Rahel Weldeab Sebhatu, Lund University and transitional justice 10 Impacts of climate change on youth, peace and Sustainable Development Solutions Network security 11 Thematic paper on Youth, Peacebuilding and the Role Mieke Lopes -Cardozo, Giovanni Scotto, for the Inter - of Education Agency Network on Education in Emergencies 12 Young people and violent extremism in Lake Chad Civil society platform for peacebuilding and Basin statebuilding (CSPPS) and International Dialogue on Peacebuilding and Statebuilding (IDPS) 13 The role of youth volunteerism in sustaining peace and United Nations Volunteers security 14 The role of youth in nuclear disarmament: examining Soka Gakkai International the project “The People ’s Decade for Nuclear Abolition ” 15 Engaging Youth in Transitional Justice International Center for Transitional Justice 16 Youth affected by violent conflict – quantitative Talia Hagerty, Institute for Economics and Pea ce assessment 17 Strengthening youth engagement Dag Hammarskj öld Foundation 18 UN Progress Study on Youth, Peace & Security Saferworld PROGRESS STUDY YPS 19 Submission for the Geneva Consultation on the Plan International Progress Study on Youth, Peace and Security