Katrina Lee-Koo is Associate Professor of International Relations at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. She is the co-author of Children and Global Conflict (Cambridge University Press, 2015) and Ethics and Global Security (Routledge, 2014).Lesley Pruitt is Senior Lecturer in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne, Australia, and author of Youth Peacebuilding: Music, Gender, and Change (State University of New York Press, 2013) and The Women in Blue Helmets: Gender, Policing & the UN’s First All-Female Peacekeeping Unit (University of California Press, 2016).

• Introduction 1. Building a Theory of Young Women’s Leadership 2. Critical Components of Advancing Young Women’s Leadership 3. Young Women’s Leadership in Conflict: Crossing Borders in Myanmar 4. Building Inclusive Young Women’s Leadership in the Pacific: Spaces for Change 5. ‘There’s Space for Both’: Young Women and Intergenerational Leadership in Papua New Guinea 6. Young Women in UN Peace and Security Policy: At Risk or In the Lead? Conclusion

Katrina Lee-Koo is Associate Professor of International Relations at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. She is the co-author of Children and Global Conflict (Cambridge University Press, 2015) and Ethics and Global Security (Routledge, 2014).Lesley Pruitt is Senior Lecturer in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne, Australia, and author of Youth Peacebuilding: Music, Gender, and Change (State University of New York Press, 2013) and The Women in Blue Helmets: Gender, Policing & the UN’s First All-Female Peacekeeping Unit (University of California Press, 2016).

• Introduction 1. Building a Theory of Young Women’s Leadership 2. Critical Components of Advancing Young Women’s Leadership 3. Young Women’s Leadership in Conflict: Crossing Borders in Myanmar 4. Building Inclusive Young Women’s Leadership in the Pacific: Spaces for Change 5. ‘There’s Space for Both’: Young Women and Intergenerational Leadership in Papua New Guinea 6. Young Women in UN Peace and Security Policy: At Risk or In the Lead? Conclusion

Katrina Lee-Koo is Associate Professor of International Relations at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. She is the co-author of Children and Global Conflict (Cambridge University Press, 2015) and Ethics and Global Security (Routledge, 2014).Lesley Pruitt is Senior Lecturer in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne, Australia, and author of Youth Peacebuilding: Music, Gender, and Change (State University of New York Press, 2013) and The Women in Blue Helmets: Gender, Policing & the UN’s First All-Female Peacekeeping Unit (University of California Press, 2016).

• Introduction 1. Building a Theory of Young Women’s Leadership 2. Critical Components of Advancing Young Women’s Leadership 3. Young Women’s Leadership in Conflict: Crossing Borders in Myanmar 4. Building Inclusive Young Women’s Leadership in the Pacific: Spaces for Change 5. ‘There’s Space for Both’: Young Women and Intergenerational Leadership in Papua New Guinea 6. Young Women in UN Peace and Security Policy: At Risk or In the Lead? Conclusion