GLB-C19-2026
Dear friends,
World Scouting is pleased to share its newly published Youth, Peace, and Security Position Paper. providing a common framework to strengthen advocacy on one of the most important issues facing young people today.
As young people face growing challenges related to conflict, displacement, disasters, social fragmentation, and shrinking civic space, Scouts are working to build stronger communities through community service, education, dialogue, and peacebuilding. The Youth, Peace and Security Position Paper brings these contributions together, helping World Scouting and National Scout Organizations (NSOs) to advocate more effectively for greater recognition, support, and partnership for peace.
Rooted in our Strategy for Scouting, the paper contributes to our goal of creating a more peaceful and inclusive world and supports our ambition to become a more influential organisation. It is the first in a series of position papers that will connect World Scouting's impact areas with advocacy priorities and provide practical guidance for NSOs wishing to engage at the national level.
The position paper was developed through more than a year of research and consultation involving Youth Representatives, NSOs, subject matter experts, and other stakeholders from across the Scout Movement. The World Scout Committee subsequently reviewed and approved it.
The position paper, which is closely connected to the UN Youth, Peace, and Security agenda, will help inform World Scouting’s advocacy work and its engagements with governments, United Nations country teams, partners, and other stakeholders.
NSOs are encouraged to consider how the position paper can connect with their existing work on peace education, youth leadership, community development, humanitarian action, and advocacy. More information about this resource is available on Treehouse.
To support its implementation, a series of webinars will be hosted enabling interested NSOs to:
- Understand the Youth, Peace and Security agenda and its relevance to Scouting;
- Explore opportunities for national advocacy and partnerships; and
- Strengthen Scouting's voice on peace, security, and youth participation.
The first webinar will be hosted online on 3 October at 12:00 UTC. Click here to register for the session, which will be conducted in English. We encourage NSO leadership, particularly young leaders, and technical staff focused on peace programmes to attend the webinar.
If you have any further questions about World Scouting’s peace education work, please contact Samrawit Tibebu Zenebe, Manager, Education and Impact with the World Scout Bureau by email at [email protected].
If you have any further questions regarding advocacy and youth representation, please contact Nour Mohamed, Officer, External Relations with the World Scout Bureau by email at [email protected].
Yours in Scouting,
David Berg
Secretary General
World Scouting