Just because we're young people, we don't get to decide about our own future? Just because we have to live on this planet longer than the rest of you, we can't choose what happens to it now? This isn't just unfair -- it doesn't make any sense. We have voices and minds and ideas and dreams, and it's time for the youth to be heard. We don't want to fight and die in illegal wars. We don't want want live in a world made uninhabitable by pollution and global warming. We don't want to repeat the traditions and mistakes that gave the world enough nuclear weapons to destroy itself, countless times over. We demand a new, better future than the one promised to us. And we start by asserting ourselves today.

The Youth Empowerment Initiative is a program of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation dedicated to reaching out to youth and helping them build the structures and communities they will use to change the world by giving them the tools and skills to express themselves effectively.

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The Youth Empowerment Initiative was founded by the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation in 2000. It was – and still is – one of the few nationally sustained peace programs involving high school and college students in the United States. Click here to read more.

The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation’s current and past interns are a testament to the Youth Empowerment Initiative’s ability to cultivate a new generation of peace leaders. Click here to see what our interns and volunteers have to say.