Erika Yague

Ten years into the #YPS agenda, I’m reminded that young people have always been knowledge producers, peacebuilders. Here's a little word-vomit of reflections: www.linkedin.com/pulse/10-yea...

#YPS10 #Youth4Peace

Join us for the launch of #YouthLeadingChange!

The 📖 brings together youth scholar-practitioners & academics, demonstrating how young people navigate conflict + generate social & cultural change

➡️ www.leclerck.com/youth-leadin... #youth4peace

@hmberents.bsky.social
@yaguerika.bsky.social

Youth Leading Change | Katrina Leclerc, Erika Yague, Helen Berents A youth-authored, scholar-practitioner volume in Palgrave’s Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies series. ​This book centres young peacebuilders as knowledge producers, bridging practice and research ...

#ICYMI: Youth Leading Change is out now!

👉 Leclerck.com/youth-leading-change

So thrilled to share this gift to the #YouthPeaceSecurity community ahead of the 10th anniversary this December! 🎁📚

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@uwglobalcollege.bsky.social

The Paradox of Youth Engagement in Southeast Asian Peace and Security Despite structural constraints on institutional engagement, young people across the region are not waiting for permission to contribute to peace.

On #ASEANDay, happy to share a piece @hmberents.bsky.social and I wrote for @thediplomat.com
“The Paradox of Youth Engagement in Southeast Asian Peace and Security”
🔗 thediplomat.com/2025/08/the-...
ASEAN’s future is strongest when it’s co-created across generations.
#YouthPeaceSecurity #ASEANYouth

Young Women Building Peace in the Asia Pacific  - Australian Institute of International Affairs Young women's leadership is vital to respond to the complexity of today’s peace and security challenges. Learning from, and supporting, their significant contributions requires more than recognition; ...

Sharing this thought piece I co-wrote together with Lesley Pruitt. In it, we reflect on the powerful — and often under-recognized — ways young women are leading peacebuilding efforts across the region.

Read it here:

www.internationalaffairs.org.au/australianou...

"Youth Leading Change" has a cover! 📚💫

I’m thrilled that our edited volume now has a home on the #PalgraveMacmillan website and is set for release this September (in time for the 10th Anniversary of #YouthPeaceSecurity 😉).

📗🔗 lnkd.in/g__FDXzV

@hmberents.bsky.social
@yaguerika.bsky.social

The paradox of youth engagement: the role of young people in historical and contemporary Southeast Asian peace Young people have been at the forefront of independence and peace movements across Southeast Asia. However, little scholarship has focused on their significant role and contribution to the region’s...

Thrilled to share my first publication with the brilliant @hmberents.bsky.social in The Pacific Review! We explore the paradox of youth engagement looking at youth activism + institutional peacebuilding in Southeast Asia—based on my PhD research.

Read it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

So much for youth representation in congress! Not only is Du30 Youth PL a Husband and Wife Combo, they used their voices to redtag and endanger the Filipino youth who were outspoken about human rights!

#KabataanPL has always been with, for and of the youth & the people!

#Halalan2025

Almost there! 🎯 Our edited volume 'Youth Leading Change' is nearly ready for submission to Palgrave! Co-editing this with @yaguerika.bsky.social & @hmberents.bsky.social has been a blast. Out later this year—just in time for the 10th anniversary of UNSCR 2250 on #YPS! #YouthPeaceSecurity

Glad to reconnect in this part of the internet 😊

Throwback to February at the ASEAN-UK Youth, Peace & Security Forum!

Grateful to serve as the Forum Sherpa, guiding powerful conversations on youth inclusion, peacebuilding, and cyber-resilience.

Still inspired! Padayon! 🙌

Read more about it here: www.asean-aipr.org/news/article...

#Youth4Peace