Youth for Peace International (YFPI)

Über uns

Youth for Peace International (YFPI) is a network of young peacebuilders working on UNSCR 2250 (a first resolution on youth, peace and security adopted by the UN Security Council in 2015) through policy research, strategy framing, advocacy and ground action. YFPI is an internationally recognised youth led trust, headquartered in the national capital territory of New Delhi, India
Since its foundation in 2015, it has been working at community, national and international levels with youth (primarily), children and teachers through peace education (training and workshops), Rohingya refugees rehabilitation support, activism (creative online campaigns) and policy advocacy for youth peace and security globally.

Vision
Our vision is to build a “Peaceful and Sustainable world”. YfPI envisions a peaceful world of empowered individuals and sustainable societies.

Mission
Our mission is to develop young people through peace education and civic engagement. We aim at developing personal-professional competencies of Youth through experiential learning methodology thereby incubating a project created and executed by them through a designing-thinking approach of problem-solving.

Our work
At YfPI we aim at empowering individuals to build sustainable societies and a peaceful world. With advancement in communication technology and increased migration, we see our societies are variable heterogeneous in more than one forms, increasing the importance of learning how to live together peacefully. Tensions and conflicts among populations that have causes and impacts beyond national boundaries, and challenges for sustainable development, including climate change, also call for cooperation and collective actions at both global and local levels.
Such skills and values are to be incorporated into our educational curriculum taught especially in schools. In our workshops influencing the youth of ages 16-24 we facilitate experiential learning sessions teaching our 4 pillars of peace through fun and play activities.
• Tolerance
• Inclusiveness
• Empathy
• Non-Violence
We believe teaching is best learned and sustained when they are utilized for on ground purposes.
Every workshop has a unique module tailored as per the geopolitical factors and interest fields of the participants called as “Peacebuilders” and results in a new initiative addressing an issue which the participants think can help build peace.
A typical workshop would see Peacebuilders dancing and practicing play for peace activities, identifying factors which distinguish them from others and learning how these could help them collaborate and not compete against each other to come out with a unique initiative in the end.

Activities:
• Capacity Building: Global TOT; Workshops (Nirvana Youth Peace Learning, Social Emotional Learning)
• Ground Action: Project Inaayat is an on-ground peacebuilding project for the Jasola Camp community; Project Parivartan aims at empowering the women from marginalised communities in Delhi by providing them the opportunity to become social entrepreneurs of catered food services; Happiness & Peace Lab
• Advocacy: Campaigns; Policy & International Engagement

Saumya Aggarwal is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Youth for Peace International (YFPI).

For other net participants we can offer an expert guidance through trained staff, give an expert opinion, procure expert information and establish new contacts in the field of our work.