Inter Press Service: Finding a sense of identity and purpose, as well as employment are some of the challenges facing youths in post-conflict Bougainville, an autonomous region in eastern Papua New Guinea in the southwest Pacific Islands.
They have been labelled the "lost generation' due to their risk of being marginalised after missing out on education during the Bougainville civil war (1989-1998), known locally as the "Crisis'.
But in Hako constituency, where an estimated 30,000 people live in villages along...