Youth, Peace and Security Leadership Series

Welcome to this new seminar series exploring the positive contribution of youth to peace.

Every 6-8 weeks, an online platform will be created for young leaders to share their experience from around the world.

The seminar series is a partnership between Ulster University (INCORE & TJI), The John and Pat Hume Foundation, John Hume and Thomas P. O’Neill Chair in Peace, International Fund for Ireland (IFI), and Interpeace.

The Youth, Peace and Security Leadership Series will be launched on 8 March 2021 with “The Missing Peace”, championing young people as positive contributors to peace.

The Missing Peace, a talk by Graeme Simpson of Interpeace, 8 March 2021 at 3pm – 4:30pm

On 9 December 2015, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) adopted Resolution 2250.

The resolution is an important landmark for recognising the positive role young people can play in conflict and post-conflict settings. The UN Secretary-General commissioned Graeme Simpson to carry out a global study on youth and peacebuilding mandated by UNSCR 2250.

The study was presented to the Security Council in April 2018 and to the UN General Assembly in September 2018.

A key message of this report, and subsequent work, is to recognise and support young people as positive contributors to peace, moving away from a deficit model that sees young people as a threat to security.

This seminar will focus on the content of the report.

Speakers

• Graeme Simpson, Lead Author UN Independent Youth, Peace and Security Progress Study: “The Missing Peace”
• Professor Mo Hume, Professor of Latin American Politics, University of Glasgow
• Paddy Harte, Chairman, International Fund for Ireland
• Chair: Professor Brandon Hamber, John Hume and Thomas P. O’Neill Chair in Peace at Ulster University

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About Graeme

Graeme Simpson is the Principal Representative (NY) & Senior Peacebuilding Adviser, Interpeace, a global peacebuilding organization working in 20 conflict and immediate post-conflict zones around the world.

He was appointed by the UN Secretary-General as the Lead Author of the Independent Progress Study on Youth, Peace and Security: The Missing Peace.

He is also an Adjunct Lecturer in Law at Columbia University School of Law in New York City, where he teaches a seminar on transitional justice and peacebuilding.

Graeme has an LLB and a master’s in History from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.

He was co-founder and Executive Director (1995-2005) of the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) in Johannesburg, SA.