YPSAsia-Pacific & Global Network

UNSCR 2250 · Youth, Peace and Security

Empowering youth, building peace across Asia-Pacific and the world

Unifying young peacebuilders, climate defenders, and advocates in line with UNSCR 2250 and international youth agendas.

Young adults from several regions sit around a wooden table in a sunlit hall, reviewing paper maps and notebooks.
Member coordinationYoung peacebuilders compare notes across regions.

A network, not a single office

The Youth, Peace and Security agenda is a global movement anchored in UN Security Council Resolution 2250 (2015), with Resolutions 2419 (2018) and 2535 (2020). This network connects youth-led peacebuilding in Asia-Pacific, Europe, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East with multilateral partners, including European Union external action and Search for Common Ground.

Alongside

European Union youth policy frameworks · Search for Common Ground · Member organisations

  1. 22502015

    Recognises young people as partners in preventing conflict and building peace.

  2. 24192018

    Calls for youth participation when peace agreements are negotiated and carried out.

  3. 25352020

    Asks the UN system to report on protection, participation, and the work still undone.

Five pillars

Every member maps its work to the same five commitments. Open a pillar to read what it asks of the network in practice.

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Now reading: Participation

Participation

Members prepare each other for local councils, regional forums, and international meetings. The point is to stay in the process after the communiqué: drafting language, following budgets, and asking what changed.

  • Brief members before political, diplomatic, and policy meetings.
  • Share what was said, and what was refused, with the people back home.
  • Track whether youth language in a text became a budget line.

Regional hubs

Asia-Pacific is the focus of this page. The same network keeps hubs in Europe, Africa, and Latin America and the Caribbean, with the Middle East linked through the Asia hub.

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Asia and the Middle East

Asia-Pacific focus, with Middle East members in the same hub.

This hub carries the three regional pressures: climate and peace in island states and coastal regions, digital safety, and room for youth with disabilities in any process the network touches. It is the home base of this site.

  • Island and coastal climate-peace work.
  • Digital safety labs with low-bandwidth options.
  • Access planned before events are announced.

Regional administrators

The people coordinating the European Youth, Peace and Security Network across regions — general coordination, regional administrators, and communication.

  • Portrait of Rok Koželj

    Rok Koželj

    Member of the General Coordination Office

  • Portrait of Fatuma Adokorach

    Fatuma Adokorach

    Regional Administrator – Eastern and Southern Africa

  • Portrait of Bertin Cituli

    Bertin Cituli

    Regional Administrator – Central Africa

  • Portrait of Bouraïma Kaboré

    Bouraïma Kaboré

    Regional Administrator – West Africa

  • Portrait of Ema Meçaj

    Ema Meçaj

    Regional Administrator – Europe

  • Portrait of Kasim Ahmed

    Kasim Ahmed

    Regional Administrator – Eastern and Southern Africa

  • Portrait of Abdul Rahman Jalil

    Abdul Rahman Jalil

    Regional Coordinator – Asia & Middle East

  • Portrait of Elena Borgis

    Elena Borgis

    Regional Administrator – Europe

  • Portrait of Amani Habimana Jospin

    Amani Habimana Jospin

    Regional Coordinator – Central Africa

  • Portrait of Gebreegziabher Tadele Desalegn

    Gebreegziabher Tadele Desalegn

    Regional Administrator – Eastern and Southern Africa

  • Portrait of Yairy Vega Muenala

    Yairy Vega Muenala

    Regional Coordinator – Latin America and the Caribbean

  • Portrait of Shan Rasheed

    Shan Rasheed

    Communication – Pakistan

What Asia-Pacific is pressing now

Three pressures show up together in island states, coastal cities, and dense urban networks: a heating climate, a harsher internet, and peace tables that still leave disabled youth outside.

Young people stand on a sandy Pacific shoreline at late afternoon, looking toward mangroves and low clouds. Some hold notebooks.

Climate, peace and security

Displacement, saltwater, and disaster risk are already changing who can stay, who mediates, and who is blamed. Youth programmes in vulnerable island states and coastal regions treat climate action and peacebuilding as one piece of work.

Coastal and island members treat climate risk as a peace issue.

A young woman using a wheelchair speaks at a round table while other young people listen, notebooks open, in a bright meeting room.

Disability inclusion

Youth with disabilities are peace actors, not a side session. The network asks hosts to plan step-free rooms, accessible documents, sign interpretation, and extra time before the agenda is finished — not after the invitations go out.

Inclusion is planned into the meeting, not added at the door.

Two young people sit close in a modest community media room, looking together at a laptop. One wears headphones.

Digital peacebuilding

Online hate, disinformation, and digital violence travel faster than a community meeting. Members run practical labs on cyber safety and equitable access so more young people can organise without being pushed offline.

Community media rooms are part of the protection toolkit.

Briefs and toolkits

Short texts you can download or print. They are plain-language starting points for members, not official UN documents.

8 resources shown

  • Policy brief

    What 2250, 2419, and 2535 actually ask

    A short reading of the three Security Council resolutions in everyday language.

  • Policy brief

    Climate, peace and security in Asia-Pacific

    How displacement and disaster risk show up in youth peace work.

  • Toolkit

    Digital peacebuilding and cyber safety

    Habits for organising online when hate speech and cost both shut people out.

  • Toolkit

    Including youth with disabilities

    Plan access before invitations, and budget it like any other room cost.

  • Training note

    Facilitating a five-pillar session

    A 90-minute outline for members meeting for the first time.

  • Training note

    Disengagement and reintegration, carefully

    Practice notes for supporting a return to ordinary civic life.

  • Policy brief

    Partnerships with EU youth policy and Search for Common Ground

    How to show up as an author when larger institutions open a door.

  • Toolkit

    Protection basics before you travel or publish

    A short checklist for young peacebuilders heading into a public role.

Join or write to the network

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