Youth, Peace, and Security Leadership Program

DESCRIPTION: This is a leadership certificate program offered to youth leaders that consists on courses that range from self/other awareness, effective communication, design thinking and systems thinking, peacebuilding, project design, to monitoring and evaluation. The certificate generally includes two weeks of intense course work at Columbia University, and six months of individual and group support/couching. Youth, Peace and Security (YPS) is a new, critical, emerging field which opens innovative pathways to engage young people by leveraging their creativity and energy for sustainable transformations from polarization to peace around the world. The YPS initiative at AC4, in partnership with the School for Professional Studies (SPS) is designed to advance the work of youth leaders around the world by creating joint efforts between practitioners and academia.

OUTCOMES: To further develop youth leadership capacities by training youth leaders from around the world with innovative social transformation theories and tools, and to connect them to global networks of youth leaders and institutions concerned with youth matters.