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The connection between youth civic engagement and peaceful approaches to conflict has been espoused by educational leaders such as John Dewey, and as a means to promoting peacebuilding in conflict zones by organizations such as the U.S. Institute of Peace.  The “democratic peace” theory argues that societies that are engaged and functioning democracies will notContinueContinue reading “Civic Engagement and Peacebuilding: The Democracy Commitment”