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YOUTH PARTICIPATION IN GLOBAL GOVERNANCE: OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES: OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES Marah, Thomas Sheku; Pradhan, Happy David; SHUHOOD, FATHIMA ADILA
Journal of Governance and Public Administration Vol. 2 No. 1 (2024): Desember
Publisher : Yayasan Nuraini Ibrahim Mandiri

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.70248/jogapa.v2i1.1718

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The inclusion of youth in government decision-making processes is an increasingly prevalent trend within the context of global governance. The world’s population has more than 1.8 billion youths aged between 15 and 30 and therefore their integration into policy frameworks and decision-making processes is essential for achieving sustainable development goal, peace creation, and advancement of technologies. The youth are the key agent of change who are proficient in technology, optimistic about the future, and determined as they always seek to change. Unfortunately, they are on the other hand subjected to and required to endure in the face of tokenistic representation, disillusionment and institutions resistant to change. This paper seeks to evaluate the global governance youth participation by looking at the existing frameworks, examples of best practices, and the most systemic challenges that are preventing full integration of youth in global governance. Specifically, the findings show how emerging youth policies such as the African Union Youth Charter and the Commonwealth Youth Council, as well as youth-led social movements (e.g., Fridays for Future), are already influencing international policies. It also highlights the importance of significant institutional reforms as well as the infusion of consistent and sustainable investment to enhance the youth participation in global governance. This paper starts with practical policy recommendations such as capacity building and strengthening measures and recruitment case studies of inclusion of youth in governance. All in all, youth should be prepared with an active role in making the decisions that shape their future through strengthening measures through financial independence and meaningful educational reforms.
Fragmented sovereignty and legal pluralism in Sri Lanka: Reconfiguring state authority after the 2022 economic crisis Shuhood, Fathima Adila; Marah, Thomas Sheku
Priviet Social Sciences Journal Vol. 6 No. 5 (2026): May 2026
Publisher : Privietlab

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.55942/pssj.v6i5.1853

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In April 2022, Sri Lanka became the first South Asian state to default on its external debt in the post-independence period, triggering severe economic disruption, mass political protests, emergency governance measures and extensive intervention by international financial institutions. Beyond its fiscal dimensions, the crisis has produced a significant reconfiguration of state authority and legal governance. Existing scholarship has largely examined the crisis through political economy and macroeconomic frameworks, while insufficiently addressing how crisis governance reshapes the organization of sovereignty through interactions between domestic legal systems and transnational regulatory regimes. This study examines how the 2022 economic crisis redistributed legal and institutional authority across executive institutions, plural legal orders, and externally conditioned governance frameworks in Sri Lanka. Employing a qualitative case study design, the analysis draws on constitutional provisions, emergency regulations, fiscal reform legislation, International Monetary Fund (IMF)-linked policy frameworks, and institutional practices between 2022 and 2025. The findings demonstrate that crisis governance generated a fragmented structure of authority in which executive consolidation, externally embedded fiscal conditionalities, and strategic uses of legal pluralism became the central mechanisms of governance. This article conceptualizes this configuration as fragmented sovereignty, defined as the structured dispersion of authority across overlapping domestic and transnational legal regimes. This study contributes to debates on sovereignty, legal pluralism, and global governance by demonstrating how an economic crisis transforms the internal organization of state authority in postcolonial contexts. The findings highlight the governance risks associated with externally conditioned crisis reforms, including weakened accountability, regulatory inconsistency, and reduced transparency in public decision-making.