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  1. “Fifthly, we should translate commitments into action. We trust that resolution 2457 (2019), on silencing the guns in Africa, and the subsequent mobilization of the United Nations system by the Secretary-General through the United Nations task force on silencing the guns will generate the required support for Member States, the AU and regional economic communities and young people to successfully implement the silencing the guns agenda. Lastly, if there is one policy framework that we still need to think through, it would be the intersection between the women and peace and security and the youth, peace and security agendas, as highlighted by The”

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  2. “Thirdly, we should use sports, arts, music, dance, storytelling and film to mobilize the largest continental campaign on silencing the guns. Those tools have proven to be effective for advocacy as alternative peacebuilding approaches. The 600 million young people on the continent is a huge network of diverse and innovative minds that are interconnected on the web. In an instant, young people can spread information, alert and raise awareness, and their outreach and advocacy potential is unprecedented with new technologies. Fourthly, we should invest in civil society and civic space, provide direct financial and technical support for youth intervention and provide funds for youth-led peacebuilding efforts through truly effective mechanisms that benefit and sustain their work and social impact, rather than harm them.”

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  3. “We may not need more and more recommendations; we may just need to deliver what we already have. Allow me to offer a few concrete actions we can take. First, we should promote and convene intergenerational dialogues, collaboration and sustainable partnerships with young people, which will build trust in Government institutions and mechanisms and address youth exclusion. It is time to have young peacebuilders making the headlines. Secondly, we should enhance the capacities and leadership of youth through platforms of mentorship, internship and leadership to facilitate their professional career development, particularly of those from rural areas. If there is one thing the United Nations can change, it is to create more opportunities for young people in Africa by putting an end to unpaid internships in the United Nations.”

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  4. “In addition, the African Union Commission offers robust support to young women through the AWLN, in close partnership with the United Nations and civil society organizations. We will also come back to Nairobi to collaborate with the President of Kenya, in another milestone, to convene the first AU youth summit and festival as a pre-African Union Summit meeting for youth voices to be included in decision-making processes at the African Union and to declare their position on the role of youth in the Silencing the Guns by 2020 initiative. Many of these engagements will continue to take place, but together we can have a greater impact by moving from policies to their implementation, because young people want action and progress, not empty promises.”

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  5. “Five years ago, 278 girls were abducted in Nigeria and youth- led campaigns like #BringBackOurGirls made concrete action possible. Nevertheless, 112 girls are still missing and it is important that the United Nations continue to prioritize the rescue of these girls, especially because they come from a region where two of three girls are married before their eighteenth birthday. On 16 August, Ijoined forces with the African Women Leaders Network (AWLN). With the support of UN-Women and the Office of the AU Special Envoy on Women, Peace and Security, the AWLN Young Women Leaders Caucus organized the first intergenerational retreat on women's leadership in Africa, hosted by the Government of Kenya.”

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  6. “On 8 November 2018, we had the first open session on youth, peace and security in Africa, at which the Peace and Security Council called on AU member States to urgently implement Security Council resolution 2250 (2015), with a particular emphasis on the development of national action plans. The Council also requested the Commission to conduct a study on youth, peace and security, which will be presented next month. The AU also works to end harmful practices, such as female genital mutilation and child marriage, which we believe are part of a broader conversation on gender- based violence and, therefore, an integral part of the peace and security agenda. That is why the AU Saleema Initiative and the United Nations-backed Spotlight Initiative could not have come at a better time.”

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  7. “African young people have demonstrated effective and impactful change when given opportunities, tools, knowledge and capacity. African youth also welcomed the decision of AU Member States to declare the theme for 2020 as the year for silencing the guns, creating a conducive environment for development. The AU Youth for Peace Africa Programme arises from the relevant decision of the Assembly of the African Union, especially article 17 ofthe African Youth Charter, which was adopted in 2006 and recognizes the contribution of and role of youth in peacebuilding in Africa. The peace and security, especially on youth, has always been an African agenda, and it has actually inspired many of the resolutions adopted in the AU Peace and Security Council.”

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  8. “People like him are on the front line of building the world's youngest State, disseminating the Revitalized Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in the Republic of South Sudan of September 2018, which we need to continue supporting. I met with young people in Eritrea and Liberia, who are using innovation to nurture a culture of peace. Youth groups in Kenya work in informal settlements empowering young women using art. The African Youth Action Network in Uganda trains young refugees in emotional intelligence and advocacy against hate speech, using social media. Local Youth Corner in Cameroon is working in eight prisons to provide repeat offenders with an alternative to reoffending, positively impacting 5,000 young people to become "prisonpreneurs".”

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  9. “Since my appointment by the African Union Commission Chairperson, with the support of the AU Youth Advisory Council, I have been humbled by what my brothers and sisters are delivering as we speak with little to no resources, but only courage resilience and determination, to make Africa a safe and secure environment for all. Young people did not wait for the declaration of the year for silencing the guns to act, and they did not wait for a resolution of the United Nations or a decision of the African Union Assembly to make peace possible. I would like to share just a few of these initiatives. I undertook a solidarity mission to South Sudan, where young people like Jok are replacing bullets with books at the Promised Land Secondary School.”

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  10. “As Council members are aware, a new outbreak of that deadly virus was reported in the Democratic Republic of the Congo on 1 August 2018; since then, over 3,000 people have been infected and more than 2,000 have died. Women and young people have been hit hardest. African young people may escape the bullets but end up dying anyway if we do not act on Ebola. On this front, we need collective action to fight Ebola and adopt a peace-focused approach to help curtail the disease's spread by mainstreaming community and political reconciliation with local cooperation and building trust and resilience as the priorities of these processes and our response.”

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  11. “There is a nexus with inequality because jobs alone do not address deep-seated awareness and lived experiences of injustice for young people, who then look upon violent groups as legitimate fighters. The future of work needs to be about dignity, because young people do not just want jobs; they want jobs with dignity. There is a nexus with climate change. In the words of African Union Commission Chairperson Moussa Faki Mahamat, the effects of climate change in the Sahel have become a threat to peace and security not only in the region but also worldwide. There is a nexus with health and disease. Africa's peace and security agenda faces yet another challenge in the Ebola Virus.”

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  12. “The fourth and last reflection is that we must reflect on the nexus with the peace and security agenda. "Intersectionality" is a trendy word in the youth space. For us, everything is intersectional. Our analyses, our challenges, our fluid identities and, therefore, our solution must be intersectional. There is a nexus with development; it is not only smart to increase investment in youth development; it is strategic. There is a nexus with governance. We should deliver the health care, education and services that our citizens and young people deserve because where such services are absent, violent groups become economic, political and social actors.”

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  13. “When young people think pan-African and global, it offers a place of belonging and frees the imagination of individuals, communities and of the Africa we want, which is a borderless, transnational, multilingual and multicultural community. Our pan-African policies at the African Union are creating dynamism through the African Continental Free Trade Area, intra-African trade, open borders, the African passport and pan-African universities. The only way to end violence in our continent is to unite our young people around a pan-African Vision and space for exchange, knowledge and solidarity. Even our education should instil pride and empower the African child, in its African identity, to combat xenophobia, hate and exclusion. And we must not forget that there is no pan-Africanism without feminism.”

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  14. “But the real hustle should be to make sure that we silence the guns by 2020. The third question is about identity and belonging. We want young people to give up the guns, but can we answer the big question in the mind of a 19- or 20-year- old: "Who am I?" What are we offering them? Can we give direction and assurance that we will provide the enabling environment needed for our young people to thrive? The big question of identity, which we do not often talked about, focusing only on temporary responsive measures to fix conflict, is crucial. Our efforts are informed by our multilayered sense of identity: young, female, indigenous, refugee, migrant, with disability, living in post-colonial Africa and so on and so forth. We need to promote pan-African, transnational identity and global citizenship.”

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  15. “It is about the livelihoods of our young people, who are barely surviving and do not understand the contradiction of our times - to be the youngest population in the world, 65 per cent aged under 30, and yet the most marginalized and most insecure. Young people are hustling, ticking a young-women empowerment box here and a youth- participation box there, with a lack of resources and support and facing the huge challenges of bureaucracy and limited documentation of their work. They hustle to sustain the impact of paying annual membership dues, training costs and in-kind contributions. They hustle for funding as civil society. They hustle to collaborate with institutions and Governments. They hustle to participate in peace processes, and they hustle for representation.”

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  16. “We must see this movement of uprisings and activism in Tunisia, Senegal, Zimbabwe, The Gambia, Burkina Faso, South Africa, Algeria, Kenya, the Sudan, Nigeria and many other countries as an opportunity to channel that energy into positive social change and peacebuilding. I am of the generation that started the first revolutions of the twenty-first century. We stood up for our rights and not only demanded but led change. We moved from being perceived as subjects to active citizens and change-makers, and I am here today as testimony to a generation deserving a place at the table. The second question is about hustling. We have a generation trapped in a state of waiting for adulthood because it is in a constant negotiation to find its political and financial freedom.”

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  17. “Our definition of demographic dividends should therefore involve peace dividends and youth as the human capital, talent and the driving force of our continent. We must transform the narrative surrounding African youth into one of collective, positive actors e among the most informed and most resilient generations in Africa, and, if you do not disagree, Sir, the coolest generation. The narrative question is also gendered because gender stereotypes are reinforced and young women's voices and unique experiences often go unrecognized. In this regard, we must also recognize that since 2010 waves of youth-led peaceful change have swept our continent, demanding legitimate rights peacefully and creatively.”

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  18. “But they are not spoken about as a generation of peacebuilders who are changing the course of history, revolutionizing technology and inspiring new ways of citizen engagement. African young people do not resign themselves to the hardships of their situation; they are using their agency and creativity to build the Africa we want. There is a danger of a victimization narrative taking hold. It is disempowering and overlooks youth agency. Many young people have internalized the idea that they are marginalized and now see violent groups as legitimate fighters, not perpetrators of Violence. We must therefore value our youth and their contribution to society. If we do not, they will look for recognition elsewhere.”

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  19. “It made me think about why young people like my cousin choose this path while I have chosen non-Violent activism, even though we both come from similar educational and social backgrounds. That led me to do my thesis on youth recruitment in violent extremism in a comparison between Kenya and Tunisia and, together with my eight years of pan-African activism and my work as the AU Youth Envoy since November 2018, I want to offer the Council four main reflections on this topic today. First and foremost, this is a question of narrative. Unfortunately, when African youth get the worst sort of attention from leaders, they are portrayed as perpetrators of violence, carrying guns, a dangerous class, members of the unemployed, migrants dying in the Mediterranean and as a youth bulge.”

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  20. “Young Tunisians had their say at the ballot box, using their power of voting. They campaigned with zero budget and chose two candidates outside of the norms. The process, however, remains fragile and very challenging. We need to equip these young people and support innovation in our political processes. In my presentation, I am going to address four main questions: What are the core issues we need to reflect on? What is the reality on the ground in Africa? What are we doing about it at the AU? What can we do together? In 2013, my cousin was recruited by Da'esh at the age of 22. At the time, he had just graduated from university with an engineering degree. It was a tough experience for the family to go through.”

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  21. “I would also like to thank the African Union (AU) Silencing the Guns Unit and the Youth for Peace Africa Programme of the Peace and Security Department, with which I work closely in mobilizing for and promoting sustainable peace in Africa, as well as the Office of the Special Adviser to the Secretary- General on Africa and the Permanent Observer of the African Union to the United Nations for their continuous support and advocacy for all youth agendas. Please allow me to also congratulate all new members of the Council, in particular the AU member States, the Republic of Niger and the Republic of Tunisia, for being elected as non-permanent members. I also congratulate Tunisia on organizing early presidential elections following the death of President Beji Caid Essebsi.”

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  22. “Ms. Chebbi: I thank you, Mr. President, for the opportunity to brief the Security Council on the important theme of peace and security in Africa, particularly in order to inform the Council on the contribution of African youth and strategies to mobilize the United Nations family towards silencing the guns in Africa. I wish to express my gratitude to the Republic of South Africa for this invitation and for its leadership on the youth agenda.”

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