Youth Conference Report
A new strategic flank has emerged for those who demand a new, just security and development architecture: an international youth movement dedicated to the common interests of the one humanity.
This youth movement is growing at an accelerating rate, guided by such world leaders as Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder of the Schiller Institute; Dr. Naledi Pandor, chairwoman of the Nelson Mandela Foundation and former Minister of International Relations and Cooperation of South Africa; Jacques Cheminade, president of the French party Solidarité & Progrès; Ambassador Beryl Sisulu, Ambassador of South Africa to Mexico; and Alain Charlemagne Pereira, former Ambassador and former Chief of Staff of the Senegalese Air Force. These mature voices of reason spoke in dialogue on Dec. 14, 2025, with an assembly of over 200 youth from across 37 nations from all five continents, including 20 different African nations, during the Schiller Institute international youth conference, “Young People of the World, Unite!”
That dialogue served as the first panel of two, followed by a remarkable session featuring 17 recorded statements from young people from Nigeria, Côte d’Ivoire, Yemen, Mexico, the Netherlands, Russia, Sudan, Cameroon, Japan, United States of America, Mali, Kenya, Uganda, and Brazil, as well as a dozen live statements contributed by young leaders in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Niger, and many other locations. These statements covered such matters as the use of AI to eradicate mycotoxin contamination of food in Africa; the organizing of the population of Mexico in support of cooperation with the BRICS; the historic memory of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki; the 255th birthday of Ludwig van Beethoven as seen by a Yemeni youth; the urgent need for young people to help stop the horrific crises in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Gaza; the legal fight for the economic and political sovereignty of Mali; the common need for a just world agricultural system, as seen from the standpoint of a Kansas cattleman; and the need for fossil fuel development and great projects to eradicate poverty in Africa and the world.
Following those statements came further dialogue among the assembled youth, Helga Zepp-LaRouche, and Jacques Cheminade, during which the demands of the future and the present were discussed from the standpoint of the strategic danger of a new kind of universal fascism, the intersection of the malign use of Artificial Intelligence, crypto currency, and the military industrial complex, engineered to prevent the consolidation of a new just paradigm. Against this backdrop, punctuated by the particularly insane outlook of NATO, as expressed in a recent propaganda video, “From Foresight to Warfight!” what intervention must this global youth collaboration make?
Zepp-LaRouche challenged the youth leaders that, in fact, “we are not barbarians. We are not like this NATO image of man. We are the creative species, and we can come up with solutions for every man-made problem. And war is a man-made problem. That’s why I think the need to have a powerful international youth movement is the key to solving the present conjuncture in human history. Only if we have young people on all continents—in Africa, Latin America, Asia, and hopefully then, inspiring the youth of the United States and Europe—who will fight for a new economic system, a new world economic order, and an end to war, will this tragedy which is potentially facing humanity possibly be avoided.”
The enthusiastic responses of the young participants of this conference indicates that many are ready and willing to build this movement, and to answer Zepp-LaRouche’s’s long-standing call to learn and implement the method of the coincidence of opposites, invented by Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa in the 15th century as a means of solving intractable problems by ascending to the higher one.
Nations represented during the conference included Ghana, Ethiopia, Canada, Uganda, Yemen, France, Australia, Palestine, South Africa, Kenya, Mali, Côte d’Ivoire, Bangladesh, Brazil, Nigeria, U.S.A., Mexico, Madagascar, Gambia, Japan, Italy, the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Tanzania, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Cameroon, Saint Lucia, Argentina, Algeria, India, Sudan, Senegal, Zimbabwe, Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, Niger, Chad, and Iran.
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“Young People of the World, Unite!”
Conference Program
Panel 1
• Helga Zepp-LaRouche, Founder, The International Schiller Institute (Germany)
• Dr. Naledi Pandor, chairperson, Nelson Mandela Foundation and former Minister of International Relations and Cooperation of the Republic of South Africa
• Jacques Cheminade, President, Solidarité & Progrès (France)
• H.E. Ambassador Beryl Sisulu, Ambassador of the Republic of South Africa to Mexico
• Alain Charlemagne Pereira, former Chief of Staff of the Senegalese Air Force; former Ambassador and Permanent Representative
Dialogue Period and Greetings
• Shamsudeen Hassan, Yhunich Mentors Academy (Nigeria)
