This project will enhance intercultural cohesion and locally-led conflict prevention between different religious and ethnic groups in Magway Region and Mon State. This will be achieved through an innovative and gender-sensitive approach which empowers select categories of influencers (youth leaders, university students, teachers-in-training, and religious leaders – women and men) to initiate peaceful change and generate catalytic transformation across key segments of society. This intervention is highly time-sensitive since inter-religious and inter-ethnic tensions in the project’s target areas continue to rise as national political processes fail to provide stable perspectives or incentives for inter-group trust.