Katrina Leclerc

Author: Katrina Leclerc

Katrina Leclerc is a peacebuilding specialist, published researcher, and PhD candidate in Conflict Studies at Saint Paul University, where she also teaches as a part-time professor. She is also a sessional lecturer in Human Rights at the University of Winnipeg and adjunct faculty at Senghor University in Egypt. Her research focuses on the intersections of the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) and Youth, Peace and Security (YPS) agendas, with a particular emphasis on meaningful participation. She is the co-editor of Youth Leading Change: Emerging Sites of Knowledge in Peace and Conflict (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025), the first volume of its kind to centre youth peacebuilders as knowledge producers. Katrina has advised the UN Department of Peace Operations (DPO), including leading an internal review on gender equality and young women’s empowerment, and previously served a decade with the Global Network of Women Peacebuilders (GNWP), where she oversaw programmes in over 30 countries. She currently chairs the Women, Peace and Security Network – Canada (WPSN-C) and advises the Canadian Coalition for Youth, Peace & Security (CCYPS) that she co-founded.

Not the Future, the Present: Understanding the Youth, Peace and Security Agenda

by Katrina LeclercYouth, Peace and Security October 27, 2025October 27, 2025No Comments

Photo Credits: OSCE/Markku Pajunen In December 2015, the United Nations Security Council adopted Resolution 2250 on Youth, Peace and Security (YPS). This moment was far more than a technical policy development; it was the first time the Council recognised that young people are not merely bystanders in conflict but central actors in building peace and …