Challenges of Youth in (Post-) Conflict Settings

Women are prevented from taking part in decision making. Prevented from taking part in political discussion Earn less for same work No reintegration in home communities after trauma Women are often stereotyped as victims, deemed vulnerable and in need of protection. They are sometimes not even visible in violence and peacebuilding narratives. This restricts ability […]

Migration: There are over 65 million people in the world today who have been forcedly displaced; 22 million of whom are refugees and people under the age of 18 make up over half of them. Atleast 2.5 million adolescents (12-17) were displaced in 2014. The number of people who are migrating away from unemployment or

Political marginalization can be observed when people are kept out of the decision-making process, when they are not allowed to vote or to run for public offices, when they are not protected by law in an equal way or when they cannot hope that justice be done if they resort to a court. Total or

Social marginalization has to do with different aspects in human life, not being granted the same right to housing or to living in any neighborhood you would like to, not having the same access to education or other social services, not being able to benefit from welfare services or not being treated with the same

We talk about economic marginalization when livelihood opportunities are not the same as for other groups in a society, when certain jobs, careers or working fields are restricted. When two people from different societal groups are paid differently for doing the same job,  or when certain groups in a society are burdened with disproportionately heightened

Systemic rape is a war crime, yet it is committed in conflict zones all around the world. Young people are often either raped or forced to prostitution as a source of income. This gives way to the contagion and spreading of sexually transmitted diseases such as HIV/AIDS. Lots of young people and children end up

In conventional wars, the aim of the conflict parties was to win the physical control over territory by killing or chasing away all enemy troops. Nowadays, conflict actors are trying to exert or gain political control mostly through undermining the physical control of the enemy. Violent conflicts used to break out between different ideologies, such