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In many developing countries, informal settlements are a widespread occurrence. "Informal settlement" is sometimes misinterpreted as a shorthand for urban poverty and misery, overcrowding, and exposure to environmental dangers. This may be influenced by the fact that informal settlements lack essential infrastructural services and facilities and have a high concentration of difficulties to cities' social and political fabric.
The Youth Café, as a formidable member of the peace and security community, with a thematic area in peace and security, and actively engaging youth in the maintenance and promotion of local and international peace and security through the prevention of violent extremism, in collaboration with United Nations System Staff College, is pleased to invite you to learn more about the YPS primer. The Youth, Peace, and Security Primer, also known as the YPS Primer, is a FREE online learning tool that provides hands-on guidance and resources on promoting meaningful youth participation in peace and security efforts and is available in 5 languages: English, French, Spanish, Arabic, and Portuguese.
The Youth Café, committing to the UN Youth, Peace and Security agenda, recently became a member of the United States-Youth Peace and Security Coalition (US-YPS), co-led by Search for Common Ground and the Alliance for Peacebuilding. The Coalition is part of the larger Global Coalition on Youth, Peace and Security which consists of an amalgam of civil society organizations, including youth-led and youth-serving ones like The Youth Café, UN entities, donors, academia and inter-governmental bodies.
