Youth and Sustainable Peacebuilding

Helen Berents is Senior Lecturer and Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow with the School of Government and International Relations at Griffith University. Catherine Bolten is Professor of Anthropology and Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Siobhan McEvoy-Levy is Professor of Political Science and Peace Studies and Director of the Desmond Tutu Peace Lab at Butler University. -- .

Introduction: Youth and Sustainable Peace
Helen Berents, Catherine E. Bolten, Siobhan McEvoy-Levy

Part I: States and their “Youth Problems”
Helen Berents, Catherine E. Bolten, Siobhan McEvoy-Levy
Chapter 1 – Challenging The Construction and Conceptualization of Cambodia’s Young Generation in the Post-War Order
Netra Eng and Caroline Hughes
Chapter 2 – The Challenge and Promise of Transforming Youth: Insurgency in Nigeria’s Oil Region
Obasesam Okoi
Chapter 3 – Why all the ‘Emphasis on Youth?’ A Cold-War Perspective on Contemporary U.S. Youth Bulge Talk
Anna Fett

Part II: Beyond Inclusion: Institutions and the Challenges of (Transformative) Participation
Helen Berents, Catherine E. Bolten, Siobhan McEvoy-Levy
Chapter 4 – How do children and youth participate in Transitional Justice: Mechanisms in Post-Accord Colombia?
Patricia Nabuco Martuscelli
Chapter 5 – The Challenge of Being Taken Seriously: Symbolic Violence and Youth Participation in Peacebuilding in Sierra Leone
Catherine E. Bolten
Chapter 6 – Meaningful Youth Participation? The Pitfalls of Merging Counter-Terrorism with the Youth, Peace and Security Agenda
Ali Altiok
Chapter 7 – Institutionalising a Radical Vision: The Idea of Youth and the Youth, Peace and Security Agenda
Helen Berents
Chapter 8 – Youth and Transitional Justice: Interrogating Formal and Informal Sites of Engagement
Caitlin Mollica

Part III: Sustainable Peace: Youth Leading the Way
Helen Berents, Catherine E. Bolten, Siobhan McEvoy-LevyChapter 9 – “We Lived the River Through Our Bodies”: Environmental Care, Intergenerational Relations, and Sustainable Peacebuilding in Colombia
Angela J. Lederach
Chapter 10 - Reimagining ‘peacebuilding’: out-of-school BIPOC youth as researchers and advocates for sustainable peace
Jaimarsin Lewis, Siobhán McEvoy-Levy, Karayjus Perry, Trinity Perry and Julio Trujillo
Chapter 11 - Young women and peacebuilding in Asia and the Pacific
Katrina Lee-Koo and Lesley Pruitt
Chapter 12 - How the international community can walk alongside local peacebuilders: lessons from South Sudan
Emmily Koiti, Bush Buse Laki and Chara Nyaura
Chapter 13 - Global Unites: a new generation of peacebuilders rising with resilience and courage from the ashes of conflict
Prashan de Visser on behalf of Global Unites
Chapter 14 - Building a new lodge: Native youth and peacebuilding
Justin de Leon and Jordan Bighorn
Conclusions: Futures for, with, and by young people
Helen Berents, Catherine E. Bolten and Siobhán McEvoy-Levy -- .