{"id":180516,"date":"2021-05-26T14:58:07","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T14:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.un.org\/feed\/view\/en\/audio\/2021\/05\/1092742"},"modified":"2021-05-26T14:58:07","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T14:58:07","slug":"peacebuilding-not-possible-without-involving-young-people-un-youth-envoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/05\/26\/peacebuilding-not-possible-without-involving-young-people-un-youth-envoy\/","title":{"rendered":"Peacebuilding not possible, without involving young people: UN Youth Envoy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With some 1.8 billion people between the ages of 10 and 24 around the globe, young people have a \u201ckey role\u201d to play in forging lasting peace agreements, according to\u00a0<a data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.un.org\/youthenvoy\/&source=gmail&ust=1622127207732000&usg=AFQjCNGz4fqtk501y_hFUgAsJwghbQ_Mtw\" href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/youthenvoy\/\" >UN Youth Envoy<\/a>, Jayathma Wickramanayake.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re important to maintaining peace and security in communities, and to \u201cbuilding social cohesion\u201d, she explained in an interview with UN News.\u00a0She began by explaining to Liz Scaffidi how the\u00a0<a data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.un.org\/peacebuilding\/policy-issues-and-partnerships\/policy\/youth&source=gmail&ust=1622127207733000&usg=AFQjCNG2mQhKNb0oZiQWYvFheSNF6622CA\" href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/peacebuilding\/policy-issues-and-partnerships\/policy\/youth\" >youth, peace and security agenda<\/a>\u00a0has evolved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/feed\/view\/en\/audio\/2021\/05\/1092742\">UN News<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With some 1.8 billion people between the ages of 10 and 24 around the globe, young people have a \u201ckey role\u201d to play in forging lasting peace agreements, according to\u00a0UN Youth Envoy, Jayathma Wickramanayake.<br \/>\nThey\u2019re important to maintaining peace and se&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1397,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180516"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1397"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180516"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180535,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180516\/revisions\/180535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}