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Post-conflict

Conflicts around the world continue to have a dehumanising and devastating impact on young people and their communities.

Young people are disproportionately affected by conflict and are often victims of exploitative recruitment as child soldiers and young combatants.

Y Care International works with its partner YMCAs in war-torn countries to rebuild damaged social services such as health centres and schools, support the educational needs of young people, provide vocational training and employment, counsel victims of violence and train young people as community peace mediators and leaders.

Youth and Violent Conflict: society and development in crisis? (UNDP)

This report identifies key issues related to youth and violent conflict, explores how it is adressed in key policy frameworks, and offers an overview of programmes put in place by key international actors

Reshaping the Future: education and post conflict reconstruction (World Bank)

This study discusses the issues and challenges around education, poverty and conflict; and the impact of conflict on education

Impact Study: People affected by conflict (Comic Relief)

This report provides insight into what Comic Relief’s ‘People Affected by Conflict’ grants programme has achieved and learned

Youth and conflict: a brief review of available literature (USAID)

This report covers key themes, trends, and promising prospects for war-affected youth and the programmes that aim to assist them

Youth Development, Reintegration, Reconciliation and Rehabilitation in Post-Conflict West Africa

This report highlights the key challenges of youth in post-conflict West Africa and explores strategies for reintegration, reconciliation and rehabilitation in post-conflict West Africa

Overcoming Lost Childhoods (YCI)

YCI's international positioning paper on learned from the rehabilitation and reintegration of former child soldiers in Colombia

Youth in War-to-Peace Transitions: approaches of international organizations (Berghof Research Center for Constructive Conflict Management)

This study examines youth in war-to-peace transitions and the response of international organisations to them

Practical Guide to Multilateral Needs Assessment in Post Conflict Situtations (UNDP, World Bamk, UNDG)

The guide includes a discussion of the context in which post-conflict needs assessments take place, its links with the post-conflict recovery phase, and a broad typology of settings that influence the approach to needs assessment

Child Soldiers Global Report 2008 (CTSUCS)

This report provides information on child soldier recruitment, disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration programmes as well as justice and accountability measures to address the problem