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Gurgen Balasanyan wanted to harness the power of youth exchange in building tolerance between Armenia and Turkey. After completing the ...

As the youth population continues to grow in countries throughout the developing world, I have been thinking about what role this burgeoning group will play in conflict and post-conflict...

Sabrina stands in the center of the circle, explaining a theater exercise to her peers: "When I point to you and say 'boat.' Together, you are going to make a boat with your bodies...

Huda (right) discusses what draws some youth into violence while recording radio

Huda Qalib tears up when she hears the stories of clan violence. People “fight and kill each other over small things,” she says. “I wondered what they were thinking at the time...

When the Thomson Reuters Foundation recently released the results of its poll on “The world’...

I am writing from the Philippines, where I spent the past week meeting with representatives of the vibrant civil society sector to discuss the potential for programming related to youth and...

Forty-three years ago today, IREX was created to help advance exchanges, not just of people, but of ideas. As we celebrate IREX’s founding, we honor its original charge by continuing to...

Posted on June 23, 2011 - in Conflict Resolution, Youth
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Youth Theater for Peace in Tajikistan

Youth from Tajikistan use their own experiences with conflict to create and perform in community theater.

From May 1 to 3, for the first time, the United States hosted World Press Freedom Day, an event inspired by African journalists. Every day around the globe free expression is under threat....

Posted on May 31, 2011 - in Conflict Resolution, Youth
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Youth Theater for Peace participants stage an open-air drama in south Tajikistan

Nestled amid mountains and winding roads just miles from Tajikistan’s southern border with Afghanistan, Otchapar is one of the more remote communities of the world. Populated by fewer than...