From victims to peacebuilders: children and youth in the digital age

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Article

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9-19-2014

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Real transformation of child- and youth-sensitive peacebuilding requires a deeper understanding of the necessity for shift from stereotyped images of children and youth as victims to the appreciation of them as an active power in conflict, civil discontent and stability. The single-minded attention to children and youth merely as sufferers of war and post-war rebuilding may overlook them as dynamic agents of change. This commentary will focus on some aspects of empowerment of child and youth groups in peacebuilding settings.

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