My question is: will NARPI offer a work place for students after training?

I am interested in peace training held by NARPI, but this subject has not been honored in China. That means that I will not have a place to use the skill. Could you please answer my question about work places provided by NARPI?

A) NARPI courses are not free. You have to be responsible for your transportation and lodging beside tution.

However, there will be (part and full) sholarship options for some participants.  If you want to apply for the scholarship, you have to fill up a form which will be available 6 months before NARPI 2011.

A) NARPI is a mobile institute.  It moves from one country to another.

The first NARPI will be (most likely) held in South Korea, but it will be held in other countries in following years.

By rotating NARPI, the courses and contencts of NARPI can benefit the people and oragnizations of hosting countiries.

Possible hosting countries for NARPI so far are Japan, China, Taiwan, Mongolia, Far East Russia and South Korea.   

Only country in NEA that NARPI has no contact yet is North Korea (DPRK) at this moment.  Hopefully, however, North Korean can also host NARPI sometime in future. 

A) NARPI aims to offer theoratical and also practical courses in the field of peacebuilding to Northeast Asians.

NARPI views peacebuilding as a subject of training as well as studying and understanding.  By doing that, peacebuilding can become a more tangible and workable issue rather than merely a topic of interesting discussion.

Categories and Courses that NARPI can offer are:

Peacebuilding Skill Training:

Mediation, facilitation, and non-violent communication, appreciative inquiry, trauma awareness & transformation, etc.

Peace and Conflict Theories:

Introduction to conflict transformation, fundamental peacebuilding, pacifism and non-violence, etc.

Cultur and Peace

Learning from peace traditions in Northeast Asia, arts and peacebuilding, etc.

Religion and Peacebuilding:

Peace spirituality, religion as a source for peacebuilding, inter-religious dialogue, etc.

Peace Education:

Theory and practice of peace education, peace education contents development, school/peer mediation, etc.

Restorative Justice:

Introduction to RJ, victim offender mediation, restorative discipline, RJ approach to historical conflict, etc.

Development and Environment:

Economic justice, land justice, introduction of eco-pacifism, sustainable life style, development and peacebuilding, fair trade, eco tourism and responsible tourism etc.

Media and Peacebuilding

Peace Journalism, peace education through media, peace film etc.

A) NARPI begins its training course works from the summer of 2011. 

NARPI will provide 3 weeks intensive course works in peacebuilding for peace educators, activities, school teachers and adult students. 

In this 3 week period, 2 weeks of 6 courses and 1 week of a field trip will be offered. 

Thus, the maximum course and field trip that participants can take will be 3 courses.  

Courses are non-credit but a certificate will be given upon completion of course works. 

A) Northeast Asia Regional Peacebuilding Institute(NARPI) is a training and networking opportunity for people who are already working in the field of peace education, conflict resolution/transformation, restorative justice, social change in the region of Northeast Asia. 

The idea of creating NARPI was born after discovering the needs of many activists and students for formal practical education and training in the areas they are already engaged in, or interested in engaging in peacebuilding.  NARPI is a place of (re)training for community leaders, students, NGO activists, professionals, scholars, religious leaders and government officials who are interested in deepening their theoretical knowledge of peace and conflict or sharpening their practical peacebuilding skills.