Youth, Peace and Security Agenda
The Youth, Peace, and Security (YPS) agenda was cemented into the multilateral system through the adoption of United Nations Security Council Resolution 2250 in 2015. Followed by resolutions 2419 and 2535, this has crystallised the imperative of enhancing youth agency and leadership in maintaining and promoting peace and security. At the core of CSPPS's work, the YPS agenda remains a key priority, and CSPPS has supported youth-led and youth-focused initiatives promoting peace and conflict prevention through youth economic empowerment and peace education.
YPS Consultations for Big Impact
In 2025-2026, CSPPS, in partnership with Interpeace, successfully launched a GIZ-sponsored project, “Ensuring inclusive and meaningful youth engagement - Youth, Peace and Security Consultations for Big Impact”, designed to amplify youth voices and facilitate youth agency and leadership through structured consultations led by youth organisations. Seeking to offer an alternative perspective on the potential of young people as key drivers of national and global peacebuilding agendas and as rights holders shaping policy and governance frameworks, the project supported seven youth-led consultation processes in Colombia, Guatemala, Kenya, Mali, the Philippines, Sierra Leone, and Syria.
Localising the Youth, Peace and Security Agenda, Ten Years in: Recommendations For The Future
During Season 9 of the Peace Corner Podcast, interns at CSPPS and UNOY engaged in insightful discussions with key actors involved in implementing the YPS agenda all around the world. From the socio-economic inclusion of youth in Mali to the teaching of YPS in Northern Ireland, these conversations revealed how the YPS agenda has been pursued on the ground, reflecting lessons and ideas for the future of YPS. From these conversations, nine recommendations were drafted. The recommendations call for redefining protection from top-down procedures to locally shaped and youth-led practices, and prioritise the localised socio-economic inclusion of youth and support diaspora-driven localisation, among other things.
Peace Corner Podcast Season 9 - YPS turning 10 and still figuring it out
In the ninth season of the podcast, we are exploring peacebuilding in the context of the 10th anniversary of the UN’s Youth, Peace and Security (YPS) agenda, reflecting on its impact since the adoption of Resolution 2250 in 2015. A decade ago, the YPS agenda sparked hope, recognising young people’s vital role in peacebuilding. In this season of the Peace Corner Podcast, we will unpack the challenges of the agenda while celebrating successes, and exploring the YPS through gender, climate change, protection, art, the role of young refugees in peacebuilding and more!