Rising Advocates is a research–education initiative that examines how narrative shapes young people’s moral imagination, peace consciousness, and ecological responsibility. We see storytelling as a way of knowing—the one that helps youth to make sense of ethical tension, relationships, and their place within a wider human and ecological community.
Grounded in interdisciplinary scholarship in peace studies, narrative inquiry, developmental psychology, and children’s rights, we focus on the upper-formative years as a pivotal period of meaning-making. Rising Advocates’ mission is to create and advance conceptual frameworks and ideas that will illuminate how narrative supports more humane, just, and sustainable ways of seeing and being in the world.