CMC provides research, monitoring and evaluation, and technical assistance in challenging, conflict-affected and post-conflict areas. We work for international organisations, governments and civil society, deploying multinational and highly specialised teams of experts. Our staff offer in-depth thematic expertise in a number of areas, including on topics like social tension/cohesion, peacebuilding, stabilisation and migration, and have served organisations across the Middle East, Europe, Africa and Asia. The Center for Diversity and National Harmony (CDNH) is an independent nongovernmental organisation established with an overall objective to enhance social harmonisation, peaceful coexistence and mitigation of violence in Myanmar. CDNH builds on the research capacity and the community networks of many of the researchers and field staff who were involved in the investigation, data collection and preparation of reports on communal violence that has occurred in Myanmar. VSO is an international development agency which believes in the power of volunteering to bring about long-lasting, transformational change. VSO has been working in Myanmar since 2014 and has two programmes: education, and equality and inclusion. Integrated into all of our programmes are the VSO core approaches of social inclusion and gender, social accountability and resilience. The British Council is the UK’s international organisation for cultural relations and educational opportunities. We create friendly knowledge and understanding between the people of the UK and other countries. We do this by making a positive contribution to the UK and the countries we work with – changing lives by creating opportunities, building connections and engendering trust. The Next Generation series is part of the British Council’s commitment to exploring youth voice and choice. It aims to understand youth attitudes and aspirations, amplify youth voice and support better youth policymaking. The reports focus on young people in countries experiencing a period of significant change, to ensure that young people’s voices are heard and their interests represented in decisions that will have lasting implications for their lives. www.britishcouncil.org/research/next-generation Photography: page vi © Mat Wright All other images © Boothee Thaik Htun © British Council 2019 /J200 The British Council is the United Kingdom’s international organisation for cultural relations and educational opportunities.