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GENERATION PEACE

Over 60% of armed conflicts reoccur; the seed of future conflict is sown even as a peace agreement is signed. The cyclical nature of war, calls for a focus on youth who can disrupt this pattern.

GENERATION PEACE is an interdisciplinary, multilevel project with three goals:

  1. To identify which factors and conditions predict youth peacebuilding, or persistent prosocial action ranging from helping outgroup members to participation in nonviolent social movements.
  2. To assess the long-term, generational impact of youth peacebuilding across the globe.
  3. The project’s unique analytical approach integrates interdisciplinary frameworks from developmental psychology and peacebuilding, which will ultimately be synthesised into a comprehensive model of youth peacebuilding.

A brand-new project from the Helping Kids! Lab, GENERATION PEACE, offers a fundamentally new way to approach the research challenge: Youth are a driver, rather than an indicator, of peace.