Youth Agency in Peacebuilding

Publikation: Beiträge in ZeitschriftenZeitschriftenaufsätzeForschungbegutachtet

Authors

  • Lani Anaya Jiménez
  • Matthew Ryan Robinson

More than 600 million young people today live in economically and environmentally fragile contexts. Scholarly literature on the interconnections between these young people and religion has often portrayed them as prone to radicalization and drawn to violent extremism. Such framings, however, render invisible their potential as agents for positive change. In this article, we take a step back to consider more basic questions about the socio-political significance of youth leadership in (inter)religious contexts for the cultivation of peace. In particular, we focus on youth, religion, and religious representations of insider and outsider “others.” In this article, we report on the youth-focused programme Enemy, Stranger, Neighbor, Friend, aiming to contribute to understanding the complexities that youth working in conflict prevention, informal peace education, and interreligious work face and the contributions they can make.

OriginalspracheEnglisch
ZeitschriftEcumenical Review
Jahrgang74
Ausgabenummer5
Seiten (von - bis)760-781
Anzahl der Seiten22
ISSN0013-0796
DOIs
PublikationsstatusErschienen - 12.2022
Extern publiziertJa

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