ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a new approach to civil society in the global context by focusing on youth civic engagement and local peacebuilding. The approach is particularly strong because it is based not only on empirical discussions of individual countries but also on a firm theoretical framework of the discussion of youth civic engagement and development issues. The quality of its research assists the reader to understand the contributions of young people from MENA and their civil society organizations' (CSOs) interventions and endeavours to encourage young people's grassroots engagement, activism, and resilience. A number of scholars, activists, community assessors, researchers, and evaluators have attempted to assess whether youth CSOs' actions are relevant to the promotion of young people's engagement in local networks. Young people, for example, use new communication technologies and social media platforms to raise the issue of their rights instead of established information networks.
