Youth Perspectives on the 2025 Peacebuilding Architecture Review

From 10-11 December 2025, young people identified five key priority actions that the UN Peacebuilding Architecture can take to advance sustaining peace. During the two days, they pointed out the lack of youth empowerment, misinformation and poor governance among the greatest risks to peace and security. In this context, they highlighted the need to ensure that the UN as an institution and global policies are more accessible for young people; and to have the UN take a more active position vis-a-vis governments who fail to realise their international commitments on peace and security; to localise global policies to enable their impact at the field level.

The two days were part of a youth consultation and high-level meeting organised by the UN Population Fund (UNFPA), with technical support of the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC) and the MENA Coalition on Youth, Peace and Security (YPS). They served as a vital platform for young peacebuilders to contribute to the 2025 UN Peacebuilding Architecture Review, as part of the UN System’s commitment to ensure the inclusion of youth voices in peace and security. During the two days, young people conducted operational analysis and highlighted key risks to sustaining peace at the local level and, during the dialogue, discussed with the representatives of Member States and the UN concrete actionable recommendations for a UN peacebuilding architecture to become better equipped to address these risks.