Frontlines is a global report that aims to fill this gap. Its goal is to encourage approaches and practices that recognize and support young people’s positive role in responding to and preventing violent extremism. Drawing on the latest evidence from available research as well as newly collected primary data, this report seeks to identify current challenges and opportunities for youth-focused PVE policy and programming. It not only showcases the way in which young people have creatively and organically responded to the challenges that violent extremism poses in their communities and societies, but also presents evidence on why development actors should redouble efforts to promote genuinely inclusive and participatory PVE approaches. The UNDP Strategic Plan, 2018–2021 recognises that no one should be left behind, and that young people are “critical agents of change”. UNDP has also committed to include young people in its Signature Solution on strengthening effective, inclusive and accountable governance, with a focus on building institutions and mechanisms that peacefully resolve conflict and advance social cohesion. The Strategic Plan also gives UNDP an opportunity to ‘do business differently’, including by tapping into young people’s energy and further institutionalizing youth participation. This report is aimed for a broad audience – governments, development actors, practitioners and researchers, many of whom have recognized that traditional approaches to PVE that stigmatize rather than empower young people have so far had counterproductive effects. The findings contained here are also aimed to promote improved UNDP’s country- and regional-level PVE programming, including in the context of UNDP’s Youth Global Programme and UNDP’s Global Programme on Development Solutions for the Prevention of Violent Extremism. This could only be achieved by fostering youth substantive participation at the policy and programming level, in line with the United Nations Secretary-General Plan of Action to Prevent Violent Extremism.