Learning to Become Smart Radicals: A Regenerative Lens on the Potential for Peace and Reconciliation through Youth and Education Systems

Media coverage and foreign policy around the globe often spread messages of fear about possible radicalization world's growing youth population. More nuance was brought into these debates in 2015 by UN Security Council Resolution 2250 subsequent Global Study on Youth, Peace, (Simpson 2018), while specific attention directed at potential education to support young people's agency for peacebuilding. In this reflective piece, I aim bring a fresh perspective current emergencies thinking offer insights how regenerative approach can help reshape it prepare younger generations respond effectively peacebuilding related "wicked challenges." together two existing conceptual frameworks—the 4Rs (Novelli, Lopes Cardozo, Smith 2017) Tomaševski's 4As (2005; see also Shah Cardozo 2019)—that are directly relevant field. Building work, adopt lens reconciliation engage law three framework encourage deeper understanding education's transgressive inspire alternative, reconciliatory paths toward will invite you, reader, apply explorations your own experience. The exploration is development "smartly radical" questions; research, policy, practice design that more critically informed consciousness driven; and, finally, transformative systems stakeholders serve enable them "glocal" challenges ways mindful, conscious, effective.