‘Youth, Peace and Security’ Agenda in DRC: Journalists trained on Resolution 2250 in Kinshasa

Kinshasa, August 18^th, 2026 (CPA). – A training programme for young journalists on the Youth, Peace and Security (YPS) agenda, aimed at promoting Resolution 2250, has been launched on Tuesday during a workshop in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), to coincide with International Youth Day. “This training workshop for young journalists on Resolution 2250 is being organised to coincide with International Youth Day, to equip them to promote and raise awareness amongst the general public, and also to create a small network of journalists to raise awareness of Resolution 2250 ,” has declared Anna-Jacquie Kitoga, coordinator of the National Technical Secretariat for Resolution 2250 in DRC (STN-R 2250). “Resolution 2250 aims to recognise and value the positive contribution of young people to conflict prevention and resolution, as well as to peacebuilding. Once perceived as being manipulated or as troublemakers, young people are now regarded as key actors for peace, having moved from a position of victims to that of committed actors,” she has added. Ms Kitoga has indicated that this ‘Youth, Peace and Security’ (YPS) agenda is presented as an offshoot of the ‘Women, Peace and Security’ (WPS) agenda and its Resolution 1325, which has been in place since 2000. In her view, the young people have drawn inspiration from the example of women – who have also long been side-lined in decision-making – to campaign for their own participation. The head of R 2250 has explained that Resolution 2250 is based on five pillars, namely: participation, protection, prevention, partnership, and the disengagement and reintegration of young people into society. “The participation of journalists in this training involves engaging young people in decision-making, dialogue and peace processes, enabling them to form associations and ensuring they are represented. True participation is defined by genuinely taking young people’s views into account, beyond mere presence, whilst protection aims to prevent and combat the violence, abuse, discrimination and violations suffered by young people,” she has said. She has also emphasised the process of implementing the Youth, Peace and Security (YPS) Agenda in DRC, whilst urging journalists to get involved in raising awareness of this Resolution. “The resolution 2250 has emerged from a movement of young people who, faced with their exclusion, came together at a global forum in August 2015, sponsored by the Prince of Jordan. This forum has led to a proposal, and subsequently to the adoption of the resolution by the Security Council,” she has revealed, before explaining the role of the National Technical Secretariat for Resolution 2250: “The role of the National Technical Secretariat (NTS) is to act as the implementation mechanism, established by ministerial decree to ensure coherence amongst stakeholders; it oversees the coordination, planning and consolidation of all national actions related to the Youth, Peace and Security agenda.” This training workshop for young journalists was organised by the National Technical Secretariat for Resolution 2250 in DRC.ACP/