Davos ( CNN ) -- Davos is a stimulating place to be , to discuss and to learn . Hopefully , by coming together , we will find ideas and solutions that will bring the world forward . In my opinion , one of our challenges is that we are about to lose a whole generation of resources because of the growing unemployment of youth . It is dangerous not to let today 's youth be a part of the reshaping of the world . In 2013 , according to the World Bank , 73 % of the labor force between the ages 15 and 24 was without work , but available for and seeking employment . Many of the people I have admired over the last few years have been young people I have met in very different situations . They have become role models for leadership and high ethical standard . Some fantastic young people I have met have shown leadership under such hard conditions that I can picture them taking a leading position within a wide range of fields . I believe today 's youth -- the ones you find at almost any school almost anywhere in the world -- are highly competent people with knowledge and experience that would be in the best interests of established leaders to utilize . Youth today live in an extreme world regarding diversity , conflict , opportunities and technical means of connecting with others . The global networks of youth are far ahead what established leaders of today had when they were young . Since 2006 I have been visiting schools and talking to students all around the world together with my fellow Young Global Leaders John Hope Bryant and Pekka Himanen . We have arranged so called Dignity Days -- which is the main activity of our organization Global Dignity . We have three goals : To spur a global conversation on dignity , to arrange Global Dignity Days at schools and promote dignity-based leadership . This year , Dignity Day will be held for more than half of the Norwegian first year high school pupils -- and in around 50 countries world wide . What strikes me during my very diverse meetings with youth around the world is how similarly they define dignity -- and how relevant it feels for most young people to discuss this issue as a core value of our time . These are some of the dignity stories we have been told : . In Jordan , a girl stood up and told how annoyed she had been when she got a visually impaired teacher . The girl was very ambitious , and thought she would get less quality training because of the teacher 's disability . When the teacher later became the first visually impaired person in Jordan to earn her PhD , the student completely shifted her perspective . She realized that she was proud that this had been her teacher and that she had learned something more important from her than from any of her other teachers . In South Africa a girl told how , during the riots in 2009 , her grandmother covered and hide some of the immigrants in her home , who were targets of the riots . In Norway , a Muslim student told how her friend had started to walk to and from school together with a Jewish boy who was being bullied -- to support and protect him . I particularly like this third story . It shows the genius of youth in beautiful simplicity . It hits the core of what the world 's leaders have been struggling so hard over so many years to achieve . I believe youth is an important target group for positive change -- indeed the real driver of positive change . Youth find it incredibly easy to grasp the idea of dignity -- and even better : how it can be operationalized into practical action . They are truly Champions of Global Dignity . So what do we need to do to create positive change ? It is not enough to merely accept the inherent dignity of all human beings . Our actions must reflect the dignity of others . In my view dignity consists of two main parts : Firstly , inherent dignity and secondly , perceived dignity -- a sort of dignity capital . We all have the ability to increase other people 's dignity capital -- and thus increase our own . This is about doing all we can to become our best selves -- by making conscious decisions -- and making the best out of our resources . Take action , see potential , and give unemployed youth the opportunity to use their resources as a response to this both current and emerging challenge . Gordon Brown : Without frontiers , young people mobilize for change . Klaus Schwab : Business must help young people find jobs . Opinion : Why Europe 's unemployment ills need urgent economic medicine . The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Crown Prince Haakon of Norway .
Norway 's Crown Prince Haakon : It is dangerous not to let youth help reshape the world . He says global youth networks are far ahead what established leaders had in their youth . Youth find it incredibly easy to operationalize dignity into practical action , he writes .