September 30, 2025Journal of Youth StudiesOpen Access

Everyday resistance: young people's agency and the politics of peacebuilding amid armed conflict and systemic oppression

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Qualitative research explores young people's agency in peacebuilding, indicating everyday resistance against systemic oppression.

Young people's agency shapes and is shaped by the social structures they operate within, challenging power dynamics.
Findings revealed that young people engaged in grassroots activism and conflict transformation amidst systemic oppression.
Using a youth-led participatory action research approach, the work gathered data from 45 interviews and six focus groups.
The study underscores the importance of young people's agency in promoting an anticolonial peacebuilding agenda.

Amani Kasherwa (2025) studied this question.

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