This report was compiled by Catherine Panter-Brick (Yale
University), Alex de Waal (Tufts University) & Aalyia Sadruddin
(Yale University)   Social and political changes in the context
of conflict and governance in Africa do not affect youth in
isolation, but collectively.  On February 28, 2014, Professors
Catherine Panter-Brick from Yale University’s Conflict,
Resilience and Health Program Anthropology Dept. and Alex de
Waal from the World Peace Foundation at the Fletcher School,
Tufts, co-convened a workshop to assess how young people across
Africa are changing the nature of governance. Hosted by the
Department of Anthropology at Yale University, with support from
the Hendel Fund and the MacMillan Yale Council on African
Studies and the World Peace Foundation, the workshop included
analyses from scholars and practitioners in anthropology, media
studies and communications, politics, and economics—fields that
have hitherto been working largely in parallel. The workshop
explored key cases from diverse parts of