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The activities of various UN agencies in West Africa show the very real and practicalways that opening channels for political engagement can allow young people in postconflictsocieties to play this role of rebuilding community confidence and putting theircountries on the path of meaningful development. In Liberia, for example, UNICEFhas coordinated a youth parliament as a way of furthering youth political participationand dialogue for development. This was part of a broader West African regionalprogram to create youth“Leadership for Human Security”which aims at promotingnon-violent strategies for conflict resolution and ways of spreading human securitymessages among the wider population (UNDP 2006: 61). Similar emerging programsin East and Southern Africa also offer cause for hope and provide evidence thatgovernments are beginning to realize the importance of including youth in decisionmaking processes (United Nations 2007: 105-109).The period immediately following the end of conflict can be particularly difficult foryoung people. Typically, a lack of educational or employment opportunities, leads tocontinued instability and further marginalisation of chances for economic betterment.An International Labour Organization (ILO) study has shown that in Liberia someof the biggest barriers facing youth in rebuilding their lives are the widely held“misleading”and often“shockingly negative”beliefs about youth, which result in alack of opportunities extended to them (Munive and Lakovits 2006). There is evidencehowever, that UN programs can be successful in combating such social exclusion,such as in a United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) led project in the ManoRiver area, comprising Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.The Mano River Youth Conflict Resolution Forum, conducted from 2003 brought708