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This volume is the result of academic cooperation between scholars in Norway, Sudan, Zambia, and South Africa linked to a master's program in international education and development. It draws upon studies carried out in Sudan, Zambia, Namibia, and South Africa. Most of the chapters deal with the HIV/AIDS pandemic in various ways. Because youth are the group most vulnerable to HIV/AIDS, the various chapters discuss the complex discursive spaces that youth inhabit and navigate, and where the interlocking concepts of social identity, power, inequality, sexuality, vulnerability, and resilience are brought together. Many of the chapters discuss the HIV/AIDS pandemic in relation to indigenous knowledges and argue for including indigenous knowledges in the fight against the pandemic. The suggestion to include indigenous knowledges opens space for a more varied, holistic, and comprehensive approach to the pandemic. The book invites readers to explore the oppressive and often dangerous socioeconomic situation that many youth in sub-Saharan Africa experience, also beyond the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Chapters on street youth in Namibia and youth in a township in Cape Town discuss the often creative coping mechanisms employed by youth to escape or mitigate the oppressive situations they find themselves in

De Coning et al talk about United Nations' (UN) massive quantitative increase in the number of peacekeeping operations as well as a qualitative shift from military intervention toward state- and peacebuilding support. Peace operations today differ dramatically from those of only a decade or two earlier. The international community has recognized that the period in the immediate aftermath of conflict is crucial for stabilizing conflict-affected countries, but the evolving rhetoric around peacebuilding has not been matched by necessary changes in the UN's peacekeeping and peacebuilding architecture. A key insight now widely acknowledged is that the UN neither can nor should have all types of civilian expertise in-house: it should tap into and strengthen the pools of civilian expertise that exist locally and regionally, refraining from use of international experts unless that is the only option. Adapted from the source document.