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It aims to enhance our understanding of the role both formal and informal community-based groups and organizations play in facilitating relationships, conflict prevention and mitigation, promotion of natural resource management, and the establishment of lasting social cohesion – particularly in multi-ethnic, localized environments that impact some of the most vulnerable populations children, youth. [...] Specific Research Goals: 1) Improving our understanding of the drivers of conflict at the community, regional and national levels in case study states, particularly defining those drivers which "activate" community group response for affected children and youth; 2) Improving the definitions of social cohesion, peace and harmony, as well as their constituent components, by collecting and synthesizi. [...] Using a consultative process with agencies working in Burundi and UNICEF, those selected villages (Myange, Nykamgura, Gashasha and Kabonga) were judged to be typical of Burundi and reflect the necessary diversity of services as well as the ethnic, religious and linguistic groups. [...] The visit was conducted by researchers from the North-South Institute (NSI), representatives of the Child Protection Section of UNICEF Burundi and New York, and a representative of FVS-AMADE, and regional government. [...] The visit to the village enabled the collection of general information about the area, and it served as an opportunity to explain the purpose of the visit, the research being planned, and inviting collaboration with the community.