The objective of our project entitled 'Active Citizenship: Engage, Empower and Connect Youths to build Inclusive and Diverse Communities through intercultural music, song, dance and non-competitive sport was to explore: ‘Living with Difference: How to build Community in a divided world.’ In this project, the academic research evidence and the content of our three-flow programme derived from the seminal book ‘Living with Difference: How to Build Community in a Divided World’ (Seligman, Wasserfall and Montgomery, 2015: University of California Press). As stated above, the main objective of our project was to explore the complexities of building community in a world marked by deep divisions. Our active learning project encouraged empathy, critical thinking, and practical problem-solving. We emphasised the importance of acknowledging and engaging with differences (with first-hand experience of music, song, dance and sport, rather than attempting to eliminate differences. Our project explored the concept that differences are inherent and can be a source of strength if approached constructively. Rather than seeing differences as problems to be solved, our project suggested that they are natural and inevitable aspects of human life and through the lens of music, song, dance and non-competitive sport we can enable new communities to build together. The initial inspiration for our project Living with Difference derived from an article from the NY Times. In September 2022 a headline in the New York Times stated: ‘Ukrainians in Rural Ireland Piece Together New Lives, Step by Step…With 50,000 Ukrainians now finding sanctuary in Ireland, the largest number of refugees the country has ever accepted is merging with locals in homogeneous rural villages…They are among the countless Ukrainians grappling with the uncertainty of how the next chapter of their lives will unfold as the war with Russia continues. But the communities hosting them are also confronting the complexities of assimilating and providing for newcomers as they face their own economic and social challenges. Mixing Ukrainians fleeing war with locals in the largely homogeneous towns and villages of its more rural corners is a challenge.’ With these new and unprecedented types of challenges in our Rural Communities we took 3 case studies from the book ‘Living with Difference: How to Build Community in a Divided World’ and unpacked them, one for each flow. In flow 1 in Westport Ireland in July 2023 our active learning project took the case study on Ukrainian refugees coming to Europe from the perspective of "Living with Difference." We paid particular attention to how we, as youth groups can use music, song, dance and sport as a building block in a community. In flow 2 in Reggio Emilia in October 2023 our active learning project took the case of Northern Ireland as an example of Living with Difference. Again the cultural context of music and sport provided a unique lens of comparison. We were very interested in studying this vignette as one youth group is from Ireland. In flow 3 in Salzburg Austria in March 2024 we took the vignette of racism and division from The United States: Various examples from the United States were analysed, particularly the racial and ethnic divides: we analysed and experienced how music and sport helps bridge divisions (Note: in all 3 flows all case studies were taken from the peer-reviewed academically researched book ‘Living with Difference: How to Build Community in a Divided World’ (Seligman, Wasserfall and Montgomery, 2015: University of California Press). The project derived out of the work of a group of academics who wrote the book Living with Difference; they coined the phrase ‘CEDAR’ = Communities Engaging with Difference and Religion. It is through the lens of CEDAR that our project is based: we use their theoretical insights and evidence based best-practice for our project content. CEDAR’s approach is: rather than attempting to mitigate conflict by emphasising what is shared (to us, music, song, dance and sport) it is argued that the centrality of difference is key. The CEDAR case studies provided the blueprint of how to build new Communities. CEDAR uses the fundamental tools of anthropology to learn to live with difference: we implemented this framework through active learning methodologies.