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In Northern Uganda, young people and adult facilitators shared their understanding of peace, discussed their contributions to peacebuilding, and analyzed the importance of those contributions. Experiences from Uganda illuminate the types of supports and opportunities that young peacebuilders can...

While stressing the many stabilizing aspects of good quality education, editors Kenneth Bush and Diana Saltarelli show how education can be manipulated to drive a wedge between people, rather than drawing them closer together. After analyzing the increasing importance of ethnicity in contemporary...

Background 1. This “thematic review” examining SSR and peacebuilding is part of a series of multi-partner studies examining different thematic areas of peacebuilding .1 All studies focus on sector engagements supported by the PBF . The objective of these studies is to identify good practices in each...

This course examines the cross-cutting principles and obligations concerning human rights within the specific context of armed conflicts and United Nations peace operations. Human rights is a dimension that transcends all phases and employs all components of a peace operation, leading to often...

The Institute’s course, Principles and Guidelines, is designed to teach this UN doctrine to all UN personnel serving in the field and at Headquarters as well as to those who are new to UN Peacekeeping. This course has been developed in consultation with the Peacekeeping Best Practices Section of the...

Overview Armed conflict affects the lives of children and young people , as well as their families, their communities and their nations. The actions - and inactions - of a range of security actors have a different impact on girls, boys, men and women given the distinct roles they play during war...

The study consisted of two phases: Firstly, a literature review of education's role in peacebuilding. Secondly, the completion of three country case studies (Lebanon, Nepal and Sierra Leone), with a particular emphasis on the work of UNICEF. Rather than selecting cases for similarities, UNICEF...