| dc.description.abstract | The Master thesis is focused on the problems of everyday life of young people (15-24 years old) in the crisis-affected areas and the burdens from the social and political system they need to overcome while pursuing their adulthood. Research is based on the data gathered from individual qualitative interviews of affected youth from the post-conflict & post-disaster areas in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan, namely the Swat Valley, town of Mansehra, and its neighboring areas, town of Balakot and the Kaghan Valley. Project’s aim is to explore how young people from these highly crisis affected areas perceive the changes and reconstruction of the society, and their participation in the development process of affected areas. The most severe problems for youth, identified by the respondents from the earthquake-affected areas, are the social impact of the crisis, poor level of education, suppression of female education, lack of communal facilities and massive unemployment. Compared to the group of young people from earthquake-hit area, the major difference that participants from the conflict-affected areas identified, is the problem of the distrust to people in general and overwhelming fear caused by the unsolved problems with militants and resulting greater power of military over the region. The primary research aim is to find out, how development actors should approach young people in the most effective way, promoting the change in their thinking, acting towards positive development in the crisis affected areas and to design the structure of an effective policies. These should try to avoid deepening the apathy of youth from the inability to pursue their livelihoods, militarizing the young males due to helplessness with their lives, helping to change the mindset and promote the betterment of the female education in both crisis-affected areas. | no_NO |
