Building on the momentum of the first Youth Peace Summit, the second edition marks a clear step forward in both vision and impact.
Our way:
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Visionary: with a clear eye to a future of hope and peace.
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Impactful, having a far-reaching effect to communities far beyond our participants.
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Connecting, with a diverse array of participants from different background, levels of education and countries.
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Community Based: with a definitive capacity to change entire communities through it’s youth.
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Youth-led: our event is organised by young people and for young people.
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Partnership-based: resting on a strong network of exchanging expertise, contacts, resources and enthusiasm.
Between summits, thematic workgroups meet regularly to deepen the Charter and work on specific peace and security themes. Guided by this shared framework, participants design and implement youth-led peace initiatives throughout the year, transforming dialogue into sustained action.
Be a voice for peace — we can make change!
What we do
From 17 to 19 June 2026, we host a Youth Peace Summit in The Hague. During three days, we invite 150 young people from all over the world with an aim to have young people discover, learn, develop and draft a plan towards a more peaceful world. We share knowhow, contacts and network and we do this by means of offering a wide and diverse array of workshops, key-notes and excursions covering many different angles of peace work. This effort is fully youth led: organised by a team of diverse and enthusiastic young people.
The problem we solve
Youth summits and conferences are great for LinkedIn and social media posts, and too often not much more. That’s why for our next iteration of YPS we are taking a different approach. Our goal is not to create a single event, but rather to set up an infrastructure that helps to connect young people to topics, organisations and people that can help them build a lifelong career in peace. To arm them with skills and a network that helps them act on UN resolution 2250, the Resolution on Youth, Peace and Security, to help empower young people in real concrete ways in the process of peace.
And to do this, we need your help!
Our approach
Rather than isolated workshops we aim to create a permanent framework of diverse partners and Youth Peace Summit Alumni that remain connected year-round. Also after our event in June we remain in touch, set up activities and workshops and do we facilitate the activities of our alumni. Our participants become the organizers and the leaders of the next year, making sure that our project is and remains youth-led. We provide the connective tissue that allow organic connections to develop, and to turn these into actions. All within the framework of the 5 main pillars of resolution UN 2250:
The five pillars of Youth Peace and Security activity:
The Five pillars of youth peace and security are the backbone of our Youth Peace Summit: Partners are selected and categorised using the pillars and are asked to design workshops and programme elements related to those. During the event in June, all participants are asked to pick one of these five topics. They will then follow workshops that are in line with these topics.
- Participation
Young people should be meaningfully included in decision-making processes at local, national, and international levels, including peace processes and political institutions. - Protection
Youth must be protected from violence, human rights abuses, exploitation, and recruitment by armed groups. - Prevention
The resolution emphasizes the role of youth in preventing conflict and violence, including through education, dialogue, social inclusion, and countering violent extremism. - Partnerships
Governments, the UN, civil society, and youth organizations should work together to promote sustainable peace. - Disengagement and Reintegration
Support should be provided for young people disengaging from armed conflict, including education, employment opportunities, and psychosocial support.
These pillars are the main focus of our activity. Each of our partner organisations will be connected to one of the pillars above.
At the end of the Youth Peace Summit, we will deliver a Youth Peace Charter, a youth-created and actionable plan involving young people to set up and facilitating peace activities in their own communities. These actionable plans can be in academia, social work, peace building,
What is Resolution UN 225o?
In 2015 the United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution on Youth Peace and Security, recognising the role of young people in peace building and the positive influence of young people in developing policy and activity related to peace. At the same time, the document stresses the impact that conflict and war has on the lives of young people. This document set out five key action pillars: Participation, Protection, Prevention, Partnership and Disengagement and Reintegration.
During the Youth Peace Summit, we use this document as the elemental framework of our activities. You can read this Resolution here.
This resolution was followed up in 2025 by Resolution UN 2807 , reaffirming the commitment to involving young people in activity towards peace and recognising the importance of including young people in peace initiatives. You can read this document by clicking here.
What happens after June 2026?
During Youth Peace Summit 2026, we launch our Youth Peace Network initiative, in which we connect youth initiatives from all over the world in one network for the purpose of learning from each other, building and exchanging information and knowhow, and because it’s exciting! We aim to make Youth Peace Summit a yearround event, with blogposts, workshops and (digital) activities being organised in every season. The results of this we showcase at our flagship event, the Youth Peace Summit in June.
Between summits, thematic workgroups meet regularly to deepen the Charter and work on specific peace and security themes. Guided by this shared framework, participants design and implement youth-led peace initiatives throughout the year, transforming dialogue into sustained action.