Tag: youth

Young Bosnians use art, activism to address past, try to change the country’s future

By Stephanie Sugars on June 5, 2019

The Most Mira program in Prijedor, Bosnia-Herzegovina, brings high school students from different ethnic backgrounds together to grapple with and address societal issues that have plagued the state since Yugoslavia’s collapse in the 90s.

Cameroon initiative helps young violent offenders become ‘prisonpreneurs,’ peace builders

By Amindeh Blaise Atabong on August 16, 2018

The central African nation of Cameroon, like other countries south of the Sahara, is witnessing a steady upsurge in the number of young people in conflict with the law. Some are recruited by criminal gangs or violent extremist groups.