A/HRC/34/46 security agenda, including raising awareness on resolution 2250 (2015) and its potentially beneficial impact at the local level. 58. States should establish mechanisms for the sustainable, effective and meaningful participation of youth in peace negotiations, peacebuilding and transitional justice initiatives and processes. Special attention should be given to groups that are often disproportionately affected by conflict, such as young people with disabilities, internally displaced youth and refugees and young women and girls, to ensure their participation in peace negotiations and peacebuilding initiatives, including by creating safe spaces to raise their specific concerns. 59. Youth-led initiatives that have proven to contribute to peacebuilding should be recognized, promoted and supported. The media should promote the positive role of young people in peace-related initiatives, as well as disseminate successful stories of youth-led initiatives at the local level. 60. Responding to the multifaceted drivers and conditions contributing to the emergence of violent extremism requires comprehensive and sustained participation of young people at all levels of decision-making. Any measures and programmes to prevent violent extremism should comply with human rights norms and standards and include a major focus on strengthening the local and endogenous capacities of youth for preventing violent extremism and on supporting the resilience of communities to threats of violent extremism, including through mutual support and community-based mentorships. 61. States should develop violence-prevention strategies that are in full compliance with their human rights obligations and that go beyond simple security responses, for example, by ensuring that youth have the opportunity to contribute to the development of their communities. Attention should be paid to ensuring that such measures neither discriminate against nor stigmatize particular groups or communities. VI. Moving the global youth agenda forward: the role of youth in shaping the agenda of the United Nations and regional organizations A. Discussion 62. The moderator of the panel on agenda item 5 was Mr. Alhendawi. The panellists were Max Trejo Cervantes, Secretary-General of the Ibero-American Youth Organization; Alexander Kauschanski, former youth delegate to the United Nations from Germany and member of the World Federation of United Nations Associations; and Rita Muyambo, Head of Programmes for the World Young Women’s Christian Association. Discussions related to measures to ensure the participation of young people in the work of the United Nations and regional organizations, including possible avenues for young people to bring allegations of human rights violations before international and regional human rights mechanisms, and ways to ensure that issues relevant to youth were considered by those mechanisms. 63. Mr. Trejo Cervantes described the activities of the Ibero-American Youth Organization and its mandate to provide a platform for working towards ensuring the human rights of millions of young people living in the region, and outlined the organization’s achievements. Among the initiatives it had promoted were the IberoAmerican Pact for Youth and the Ibero-American Convention on the Rights of Youth and 15