Empower conference: officials and youth discuss peace and security

I'm here at the Education Above All Empower Conference, where delegates, officials and youth come together to discuss and dialogue for peace and security. I asked what they think are key initiatives that can help build peace and security for maintaining education for marginalized communities. Here is what they told me. We have to think about reshaping local policies, national policies, to make sure that we protect education under attack, that we preserve The right of every child and every youth to have proper education and an actual economic opportunity. The more we talk to, the more things we involve ourselves in, the closer we get to being involved with the policy makers, getting to be part of the decision making with those people that have power. It's mandated by the Security Council in one of the Security Council resolutions 2535. It actually mandates governments to safeguard young people's civic space. But institutions are not adopting policies that institutionalize them to actually do that. So that's one thing. Second, I think it's critical to have funding to protect young people's leadership and finance when they have challenges and intended and unintended consequences. Designing an implementation that could focus on children, education, and also women in poverty zones, I think it's an important initiative. I believe there should be an allocated budget by the government to make sure that every single A person that is entitled to education can afford books, can actually sit in a classroom where it's safe.