 In 1996 he served in IFOR with HQ ARRC based in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.He was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel the same year, and served 1996-97 as a senior liaison officer to HQ SFOR in Sarajevo.In 1998 Young returned to the Balkans for elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and again as a member of the United Kingdom Kosovo Diplomatic Observer Mission, subsequently merged in the Kosovo Verification Mission of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).