Moving Targets: Youth Priorities and the Policy Response in War and Post-War Africa

The article is part of the Africa Program Policy Brief No.5, 2012. In war and post-war Africa, youth populations are colossal and most governments are weak. The elemental youthfulness of Africa’s war-affected has created a daunting yet virtually overlooked irony: that while youth are demographically dominant, many if not most consider themselves to be members of an outcast minority.