With the ACT project we wanted to preserve hope. We wanted to equip young people with skills which allow them to see the peaceful change they can bring to their society. We applied for ACT as we saw a risk that conflicts around can deepen and escalate, and also we have had hope that young people can bring constructive contribution to working with conflicts. Planning reactions to conflicts is a delicate task, and this is why we needed a training on sensitive approaches to conflict transformation and empowerment on how to be community leaders bringing peaceful coexistence. As young people and youth workers we wanted to be aware of existing conflicts and capable of dealing with them to contribute to conflict management and transformation. The needs behind carrying this project were carefully discussed within the partner organisations, who spotted that youth work does not necessarily need to focus on working with conflicts on top leaders level (diplomacy, international legal mechanisms), but rather using the civil society engagement and strategies. What we missed in the partner organisations is exploration of practical aspects of how to intervene in conflicts, and methods on how to work with various categories of conflict transformation, such as conflict analysis, mapping stakeholders, cooperation solutions, nonviolent communication and dialogue. Youth workers were missing the mentioned above skills. And gaining them would empower them also to be leaders in their communities and be sustainably active citizens. As the answer to the above needs, with ACT project we aimed to equip 27 youth workers with competences in conflict transformation and active citizenship to enable them to act as community leaders by taking action towards peaceful coexistence in their local realities. The objectives of the project were: to develop participants understanding of the nature of conflict and approaches on working towards sustainable positive peace; to strengthen participants` critical reflection about their social realities and challenges to human rights by learning about the conflict analysis tools; to map consequences of conflicts in local realities on the lives of young people on the personal and societal level; to reflect and develop skills on active citizenship and youth engagement, such as leadership, political participation, raising awareness on existing conflicts and dialogue facilitation; to provide participants with practical tools on nonviolent conflict transformation to be used in their local youth work, in particular with nonviolent communication, conflict management, active listening and empathy practice; to ensure planning of at least 6 follow-up actions in which participants will act as peaceful leaders of transforming conflicts in their communities; to offer participants space for their sustainable engagement as community leaders within the international network of peacebuilders and their learning tools (inter alia through e-learning on conflict transformation).