Join us for 60 days of learning to highlight the connections among youth, peace and gender equality. We’ll celebrate the stories of young women and men working for peace, and we’ll exchange crucial skills and approaches for building more inclusive societies.
Spotlight Video
Are you a youth working to promote gender equality? Do you have a story to share? Film a 1-2 minute video answering the questions below. Tweet your video at #YouthPeaceEquality and you may end up as one of our spotlight videos.
- In what ways do you promote gender equality through your work?
- What is important to you about promoting gender equality?
- What is an experience in your life that helps us understand why you focus on inclusion in your work?
For Nada, Azza, and Nourhan, acceptance into the Maadi STEM School in Cairo was a dream come true. Only 120 students are chosen from across Egypt. In every region in the world, women and girls are underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, and math, denying them opportunities in education, entrepreneurship and finance that could help break the cycle of poverty.
Today’s generation of youth, at 1.8 billion, is the largest the world has ever known. Because many of them live in countries ravaged by violent conflict, the world too often sees boys or young men only as perpetrators of violence, and young women or girls as victims. But they also can be constructive agents for peace, and one prerequisite for peace is equality -- in education and in leadership. #YouthPeaceEquality
Photo Galleries
Youth around the world working to create inclusive societies:
Gender Self-Assessment
Take one of our brief self-assessments and reflect on how attuned you are to gender in your environment as well as your skills that foster inclusion.
Gender Resources
The resources below address a range of dimensions around gender and peacebuilding. Know of a good resource that’s missing. Tweet it at #YouthPeaceEquality.
Resources on Security Council Resolution 1325
- United Nations
United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 - White House
U.S. National Action Plan on Women Peace and Security
Video
- TedTalks
Danger of a Single Story - Girl Rising
Girl Rising Nepal Chapter
Girl Rising Ethiopia Chapter - USIP
Men, Peace and Security Symposium: Agents of Change
The Missing Peace Symposium
Women and CVE Combatting Violent Extremism
Colombian Women Mediators Prepare to Support Peace - PeaceCorps
Let Girls Learn- GLOW Ghana - USAID
Empowering Women & Girls
Garage Girls - UNICEF
The Power of the Adolescent Girl: Vision for 2030
In India, Village Committees Take on Child Marriage
Girls' Education: A Music Video with a Familiar Tale - Search for Common Ground
Naija Girls: Ending violence in Northern Nigeria
Audio
- USIP Peace Frequency
Saba Ismail
Vweta Chadwick
Gbenga Oni
Publications/ Articles
- PeaceCorps
We Are the Girls of Tomorrow - USAID
Family Planning for the World's Youth Promotes Peace, Health and Prosperity
If You 'Let Girls Learn,' You Save Lives Too
Gender and Extreme Poverty - MCC
A Partnership Brings STEM Education to Young Women in Georgia - Department of State
For Global Girls, A STEM Program That's Anything But Old School
Ambassador Russell Announces New APEC Initiatives to Advance Women and Girls in STEM Fields
Q&A with MCC Acting Vice President Kyeh Kim: MCC & Let Girls Learn in Morocco
5 Ways to End Poverty by Focusing on Women and Girls - USIP
Women Charting a New Course on Peace and Security: Statistics, Global Luminaries Highlight the Patterns
Engaging Men in Women’s Rights and Empowerment in South Asia and the Middle East
The Other Side of Gender: Men as Critical Agents of Change (Special Report No. 340). Washington
The Other Side of Gender: Including Masculinity Concerns in Conflict and Peacebuilding
Improving Accoutability for Conflict-Related Sexual Violence in Africa
Conflict and Extremist-Related Sexual Violence: An International Security Threat
Wartime Sexual Violence: Misconceptions, Implications and Ways Forward
Sexual Violence and Justice in Post conflict Peru
Toolkits and Exercises
- UNESCO
Out-of-School Children
Genderbread Person - USIP
Women Preventing Violent Extremism: Thought for Action Kit - UNICEF
Collection of teacher resources, including units, lesson plans, videos, multimedia, and stories - International Civil Society Action Network
Better Peace Tool - Saferworld
Toolkit: Gender Analysis of Conflict - United Nations
Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women
Youth Resources
The resources below address a range of dimensions around youth and peacebuilding. Know of a good resource that’s missing. Tweet it at #YouthPeaceEquality.
United Nations Security Council Resolution 2250
Youth, Peace and Security
- United Nations
U.N. Security Council Resolution 2250 - Inter-Agency Working Group on Youth and Peacebuilding
2250 Annotated and Explained
Young People's Participation in Peacebuilding
A Guide to Resolution 2250
Guiding Principles on Young People's Participation in Peacebuilding
Youth Action Agenda To Prevent Violent Extremism and Promote Peace
Amman Youth Declaration on Youth, Peace, and Security
Videos
- PeaceCorps
"Let Girls Learn- GLOW Ghana" - U.S. Agency for International Development
"Empowering Women & Girls" "Garage Girls"
Toolkits
- USIP Global Peacebuilding Center
Peacebuilding Toolkit for Educators
Audio
- USIP Peace Frequency
Jeff Guerra
Ariana Barth
Mark Brimhall-Vargas
Sharon Morris
Articles/Blogs
- PeaceCorps
"We Are the Girls of Tomorrow" - U.S. Agency for Intenational Development
"Family Planning for the World's Youth Promotes Peace, Health and Prosperity"
"Even Amid a Humanitarian Crisis, Education Cannot Wait"
"If You 'Let Girls Learn,' You Save Lives Too - Millenium Challenge Corporation
"A Partnership Brings STEM Education to Young Women in Georgia"
"Q&A with MCC Acting Vice President Kyeh Kim: MCC & Let Girls Learn in Morocco" - U.S. Department of State
"For Global Girls, A STEM Program That's Anything But Old School"
"Ambassador Russell Announces New APEC Initiatives to Advance Women and Girls in STEM Fields"
"5 Ways to End Poverty by Focusing on Women and Girls"
Publications
- United Nations
Culture and Youth Development
Youth and Climate Change
Youth and Financial Inclusion
Girls and Young Women
Youth and Hunger
Youth Participation
Youth, Political Participation and Decision Making
Youth as a Smart Investment
Youth and Education
Shelter from the Storm: A Transformative Agenda for Women and Girls in a Crisis-Prone World
Girlhood, Not Motherhood: Preventing Adolescent Pregnancy
Children Still Battling to Go to School
Leaving No One Behind: How Far on the Way to Universal Primary and Secondary Education?
Humanitarian Aid for Education: Why It Matters and Why More is Needed
