This study assessed youth engagement in peace building in Amhara national regional state in the case of Awi Zone, Guagussa Shikudad Woreda. The study mainly focused on investigating the youths’ perception, actual practice, challenges, and opportunities and their engagement in peace building process. The study utilized a mixed research design which comprises of both qualitative and quantitative methodology. The data were gathered through questionnaire from 120 samples that were selected using lottery method for quantitative methodology, and 24 participants for interview, and 3 focus group discussion (30 FGD members) were selected using purposive and snowball sampling methods for qualitative methodology from Awi Zone, Guagussa Shikudad Woreda. The collected data were analyzed using both qualitative and quantitative data analysis methods. While the qualitative data were analyzed thematically, the quantitative data were analyzed using simple descriptive data analysis methods by using table and percentage. The results of the study revealed that the youths in Guagussa Shikudad Woreda perceive as they have the ability to build peace in their areas. The findings indicated that the youth in the study area play great roles in peace building. They are open-minded, dynamic, influential, decision maker, and engage in peace building practices regardless of age, gender, and religion. The study revealed that the youth have various challenges in their peace building practices such as unemployment, inferiority feeling, alcoholism, inadequate youth communication platform and lack of awareness creation on peace building. The findings showed that there were different opportunities created for the youth to be engaged in peace building practices including access to education, self-esteem empowerment, and the availability of youth leagues.