1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Youth, Peace, and Security Act of 2023 . 2. Findings Congress makes the following findings: (1) As of 2023, there are an estimated 2.4 billion people in the world between the ages of 10–29 years of age, which represents the largest number of young people to have existed in human history, with 90 percent of youth (ages 15–24) in developing countries, and 1 out of every 4 young people directly affected by conflict, violence, and crisis. (2) More than 1 billion children and youth are exposed to violence each year. Failure to properly address adversity experienced during childhood (ages 0–17) and youth (ages 10–29) can lead to lifelong deficiencies and compromises future opportunities for individual, community, and national development. (3) The majority of the population in many conflict-affected countries is younger than 20 years of age, with some countries having more than 70 percent of the population who are younger than 30 years of age. (4) Only 2.2 percent of parliamentarians are under 30, and less than 1 percent are young women. Youth therefore remain underrepresented around the world in peacebuilding, political decision-making processes, conflict prevention, management, and resolution, and post-conflict resolution relief and recovery efforts. As a consequences, youth may turn from institutional politics as they feel their governments are not addressing critical issues they care about. (5) When we fail to effectively engage youth, it can lead to violence, instability, unrest, and irregular and forced migration. For example, Sub-Saharan Africa hosts more than 26 percent of the world’s 52 million refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs), of which approximately 50 percent are youth. In Latin America and the Caribbean there are 6.3 million migrants that are under 18 years old, and most migrants from this region come from fragile states with economic and political instability, where youth can be the deliberate targets of violence. (6) Adverse climate impacts,