YOUTH GLOW INC.
Programme Step 1 of 4 · Peace
Peace first, so land can work for everyone.
We bring communities, concession holders and local leaders together to settle land and boundary disputes through dialogue and mediation, and we give women and youth a real seat in local decisions.
The project
Peace Building and Governance
We settle land and boundary disputes before anything else, so no family risks its land by joining. Peace opens the door to everything that follows.
- Dialogue platforms with chiefs, elders, women, youth and landowners
- Mediation of land, boundary and concession disputes, with signed agreements
- Boundaries mapped by GPS and agreed on the ground
- A real voice for women and youth in local decisions
Technology: GPS boundary mapping to settle land disputes, and SMS and WhatsApp channels to report tensions early.
Why it matters
Land issues are the top source of conflict in Liberia, according to a Liberia Peacebuilding Office survey of about 3,000 citizens.
In March 2026 the President set up a technical committee (Executive Order 160) to end Ganta’s decades-old land dispute, which still threatens peace and development.
36% of people in Nimba’s conflict-prone communities were in a land dispute, the highest of three counties studied, and a third of serious disputes turned violent.
In Bong and Lofa, 37% name land as the top cause of conflict, and women and youth are largely shut out of land decisions.
72,126 people in Nimba and 49,596 in Bong face crisis-level hunger, and limited access to farmland is one of the causes. Peace puts land back into production.
In Nimba, Lofa and Grand Gedeh, community dispute-resolution training made land disputes 41% less likely to turn violent.
Sources: Liberia Peacebuilding Office, reported by Liberian Observer, 2017; AllAfrica, 6 March 2026; Yale/IPA, Patterns of Conflict and Cooperation in Liberia (2010 data); ILO and UN Peacebuilding Fund, Bong and Lofa study, 2020; Cadre Harmonisé, Ministry of Agriculture, January 2026; Blair, Blattman and Hartman, American Political Science Review, 2014.
Results so far
Verified. We led the Nimba component of Delivering Peace Dividends in Liberia with FAO and the UN Peacebuilding Fund (2023–24).
Where we aim to be by 2031
Indicative targets. Each project confirms its own after a baseline survey.
Aligned with Liberia’s goals
- AAID 2025–2029
- Rule of Law Pillar; Governance and Anti-Corruption Pillar (social cohesion and stability)
- Land Rights Act 2018
- Women and youth take part in community land decisions
- Peace architecture
- Liberia Peacebuilding Office; UN Peacebuilding Fund priorities
Indicators we track
- SDG 16.7.2
- People who believe local decision-making is inclusive
- UN PBF
- Trust in institutions and between communities
- UN PBF
- Conflicts handled peacefully through supported mechanisms
- UN PBF
- Women and youth taking part in governance structures
- GEF CI 11
- Direct beneficiaries, by sex and age
Fund the Peace step.
Each PPSS step can be funded on its own as a project, or as part of the full programme.