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  • Forever Young: Engaging Youth to Build Stability and Reduce Violence

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    On the Beat  //  July 31, 2018  //  By Amanda King
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    “There are more young people in the world today than in any other time in the history of the world,” said Beza Tesfaye, Senior Researcher at Mercy Corps, at a recent event at the U.S. Institute of Peace on Mercy Corps’ efforts to engage youth in Somalia and Afghanistan in order to promote stability and prevent violence. “As we know, marginalized youths are the ones often to be recruited into violent movements. Not only do we have to focus on conflict, but we also have to put youth at the center of development programs to address these issues.”

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  • A More Prosperous World: Investing in Family Planning for Sustainable Economic Growth

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    Dot-Mom  //  From the Wilson Center  //  July 30, 2018  //  By Saiyara Khan

    Students in Standard 7 class at Zanaki Primary School in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

    “There is a close relationship between fertility rates and health on one hand, and economic growth on the other,” said Peter McPherson, President of the Association of Public Land-Grant Universities and former USAID Administrator, at the final event in a three-part series on the role of population and family planning in supporting economic growth, health, and education.

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  • From Day One: Malawi President Joyce Banda on Girls Ages 0-10

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    Dot-Mom  //  On the Beat  //  July 23, 2018  //  By Yuval Cohen
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    “Over 130 million girls around the world are not in school through no fault of their own,” said Her Excellency Joyce Banda, former president of the Republic of Malawi, at the launch of her new book, From Day One: Why Supporting Girls Aged O to 10 Is Critical to Change Africa’s Path, at the Center for Global Development.

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  • Everybody Counts: New Podcast Series on How Global Population Trends Shape Our World

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    Friday Podcasts  //  July 13, 2018  //  By Wilson Center Staff

    74cb75bab2243992e98fab5156007185827084cf97936f24c0c66a651388df90From mass urbanization to massive refugee flows, high fertility to record low birth rates, global population is changing in unprecedented ways.  “Everybody Counts,” a new podcast series hosted by Rhodes College Professor and Wilson Center Global Fellow Jennifer D. Sciubba, launches a lively and thoughtful conversation about the ways human population shapes our world and how we live today.

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  • A Firm Foundation: Contraception, Agency, and Women’s Economic Empowerment

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    Dot-Mom  //  Guest Contributor  //  July 10, 2018  //  By Kathleen Mogelgaard

    According to a raft of experts, empowering women to be economic actors would change quite a bit. The UN Secretary General set up a High-Level Panel on it; Melinda Gates keeps talking about it; and the World Bank and Ivanka Trump recently launched an initiative to unlock billions in financing for it. Targets related to women’s economic empowerment cut across multiple Sustainable Development Goals, including advancing equal rights to economic resources, doubling the agricultural productivity and incomes of women who are small-scale farmers, and achieving full and productive employment and decent work for all women.

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  • Where Are All The Men? Faith-Based Efforts to Engage Men and Boys in HIV Prevention Services

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    Dot-Mom  //  From the Wilson Center  //  May 15, 2018  //  By Yuval Cohen
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    In sub-Saharan Africa, “more than half of the men under the age of 35 do not know their [HIV] status and are not on treatment,” said Dr. Sean Cavanaugh of the Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator at a recent Wilson Center event on engaging the faith community in reaching young men and boys with HIV prevention services.  Consequently, men often don’t seek HIV services promptly, decreasing their rates of antiretroviral therapy and viral suppression, and increasing HIV mortality rates.

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  • Age-structure and Intra-state Conflict: More or Less Than We Imagined?

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    Guest Contributor  //  April 19, 2018  //  By Richard Cincotta
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    Are younger countries at higher risk of civil conflict? The International Crisis Group’s 2018 list of 10 conflicts to watch suggests they might be: Like last year, intra-state conflicts (civil and ethnic conflicts within states, rather than wars between states) dominate the list, and among those, about 70 percent are within youthful countries, or states with a median age of 25.5 years or younger. The only multi-state cluster mentioned in both 2017 and 2018 lists is the Sahel, the world’s most youthful region.

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  • Uncomfortable Companions: Fertility Decline and Ideology in Iran

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    Guest Contributor  //  March 5, 2018  //  By Richard Cincotta
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    It should be an excellent time to be a young Iranian: High school and college enrollments in the Islamic Republic rank near the top of Muslim-majority countries. Women have only about two children on average, compared to 6.5 in the mid-1980s. And childhood mortality is projected to approach North American levels in the next 15 years. Yet, as the recent protests show, many young Iranians feel left out. Job growth—especially for young adults—has failed to keep pace with development, while persistently high rates of inflation steadily drive up the cost of living and cut deeply into Iranians’ savings.

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