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The Commonwealth Youth Peace Ambassadors Network (CYPAN) aims at bringing together young people from across the Commonwealth to upscale and optimise grassroots, national, regional and pan-Commonwealth efforts to promote peace, respect & understanding and prevent violent extremism. These young people range from community-level and policy-level peace advocates to creatives. CYPAN aims at fostering collaboration between members and creates space for policy advocacy as it relates to peace.

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Trinidad and Tobago’s oil refinery Petrotrin closed  its operations just over a week ago, leaving thousands of workers out of a job. Aura Whittier, 18, a Correspondent from San Juan, Trinidad questions whether the decision to close the oil refinery

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A growing youth population poses both challenges and opportunities for Pakistan, writes Faisal Saleh Yaqub, 25, a Commonwealth Correspondent from Lahore in Pakistan, who argues that the Pakistani state must address some critical issues to ensure the youth bulge is

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