Ukraine represents one of the most urgent and defining contexts for youth engagement in diplomacy and policy today. The ongoing war has not only devastated communities and institutions, but also disrupted education, displaced millions, and forced an entire generation of young Ukrainians to redefine what participation, resilience, and citizenship mean.

For Novar, Ukraine is not only a humanitarian crisis — it is a diplomatic one. The country’s youth stand at the intersection of recovery, reform, and representation. Their voices are crucial to rebuilding trust, shaping post-war policy, and ensuring that Ukraine’s reconstruction reflects democratic values, justice, and inclusion.

In alignment with Novar’s Raison d’Être, we recognize that the Ukrainian case demands more than sympathy — it requires structure: meaningful dialogue, youth inclusion, and a channel between local aspirations and international policymaking.

What We Can Do

At Novar Ukraine, we aim to create a bridge between the country’s young citizens, its growing diaspora, and the international community — ensuring that the next generation is not merely the subject of recovery but the architect of it.

Few contexts illustrate the urgency of youth inclusion in diplomacy and policy more starkly than Palestine. For decades, Palestinian youth have grown up in conditions of restriction, displacement, and uncertainty — where freedom of movement, education, and civic participation are constrained not by choice but by circumstance.

In a world where diplomacy often speaks about Palestine but rarely with Palestinians, Novar seeks to change the conversation. The exclusion of young Palestinians from international dialogue is not only unjust but self-defeating, for they hold the lived experience, resilience, and ideas necessary to envision peace, justice, and dignity.

For us, Palestine represents both a moral and structural challenge — the challenge of making diplomacy genuinely inclusive. It calls for dialogue that humanizes, diplomacy that listens, and policy that upholds equity and human rights.

What We Can Do

At Novar Palestine, our goal is to create meaningful channels for youth to engage with both local realities and global decision-makers — to ensure that Palestinian voices shape the policies that shape their lives.

Afghanistan stands as one of the most urgent and defining contexts for Novar’s mission. While active conflict has ceased, the crisis facing Afghan youth — especially women and girls — remains profound and ongoing. The systemic exclusion of women from education and public life, the repression of civic activism, and the silencing of youth voices have created a vacuum where a generation’s potential risks being erased.

For Novar, Afghanistan is not merely a focus — it is a moral imperative. Our manifesto commits us to making diplomacy accessible and meaningful for young people everywhere, and nowhere is this more needed than in Afghanistan, where dialogue has been replaced by restriction and hope by uncertainty.

Through Novar Afghanistan, we aim to create channels of engagement for Afghan youth at home and in the diaspora, fostering dialogue, digital diplomacy, and policy literacy. By amplifying their voices on global platforms, we seek not only to preserve their participation but to rebuild it — ensuring that young Afghans remain active contributors to the conversations that shape their nation and the world.

This initiative is an appeal to our partners, funders, and allies: Afghanistan’s youth are not silent by choice, but by circumstance. Supporting them is not an act of charity — it is an act of global responsibility, ensuring that the future of diplomacy and policy is not built on exclusion but on inclusion, courage, and shared humanity.

What We Can Do

At Novar, we believe that engagement begins with dialogue, but must lead to action. Novar Afghanistan Initiative seeks to transform conversation into concrete steps for inclusion, advocacy, and reform.