Manoeuvring Blue Buildings for a Youth-Led Syria

Manoeuvring Blue Buildings for a Youth-Led Syria focuses on Badael’s youth platform initiative, designed to empower and mobilize young Syrians as agents of change in their communities.  It highlights the importance of creating spaces for learning, activism, and civic engagement among youth, particularly in Northern Syria.  The platform, through think spaces, addressed five key issues identified by young participants: Safe Spaces, Social Cohesion and Inclusion, Militarism and Destructive Spaces, Formal and Informal Education, and Political Participation and Civic Engagement.  The paper explores the experiences of exclusion faced by Syrian youth, especially young women, and discusses their dissatisfaction with the gap between international youth policy frameworks and their implementation on the ground.  The “blue buildings” are used symbolically to represent this exclusion.  The outcomes of the think spaces have been compiled into five knowledge papers, with this publication likely being one of them or a summary of their findings.