Columbia International Affairs Online: Policy Briefs

CIAO DATE: 02/2011

Salam Shabab: Views and Voices of Iraqi Youth

Theo Dolan, Alexis Toriello

January 2011

United States Institute of Peace

Abstract

Salam Shabab (Peace Youth) is a unique reality TV series filmed in Iraq that brought together youth from six provinces of Iraq to compete for a chance to become youth "Ambassadors of Peace." The views of young Iraqis participating in Salam Shabab, along with new surveys on youth perspectives, have begun to create a potential profile of the next generation of Iraqi leaders.