Youth Peace Incubation Program (YPI)

Accountability Lab (AL) Pakistan, with the support of The Asia Foundation (TAF), launched a year-long Youth Peace Incubation (YPI) Program in three provinces of Pakistan – Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and Sindh in 2021. Through the Peace Incubation Centers (PICs), the Lab engaged students in various thematic activities to help develop their critical skills such as civic engagement, peacebuilding, and responsible leadership. The peace incubators were based at eight public sector universities – Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan (AWKUM), Federal Urdu University, Karachi (FUUAST), MNS-University of Agriculture, Multan (MNS-UAM), University of Okara (UoO), Women University, Swabi (WUS), University of Haripur (UoH), University of Karachi (UoK), and Fatima Jinnah Women University, Rawalpindi (FJWU). Over the year-long intervention, we engaged more than 3,000 students at these universities along with an existing network of youth peace ambassadors already developed, oriented, and trained by TAF in these provinces.