In January 2019, Chatham House, in partnership with the Robert Bosch Stiftung, canvassed the opinions of young people from across Africa and Europe as part of the Common Futures Conversations project.
The consultation gathered the respondents’ views on which political issues mattered to them, as well as data on their social media preferences and political engagement. This briefing provides an overview of what was found.
In this section of the consultation, the respondents were asked to prioritize a selection of political ‘issues’. The list of issues was developed by the Common Futures Conversations Representatives and included:
Respondents were shown this list of issues and asked to select those most important to them based on a range of scenarios. These included: which issue most affected their own country; which most affected the world; which they would like to discuss most with their peers; and which they would most like to spend $1 billion addressing. The following graphs outline the responses of the dataset as a whole as well as the choices made on a continental level.
