1. English for Peacebuilding
Facilitators: Cheryl Woelk Special Resource: Aya Kasai
Requirement:This course is for individuals at novice and low intermediate proficiency levels in English. This content-based course is designed for participants at novice and low intermediate proficiency levels in English who wish to build their English language skills to interact in international peacebuilding settings, including at NARPI. The course will focus on English expressions, vocabulary and strategies for dialogue, building relationships, negotiating meaning, expressing opinions, discussing controversial topics, building intercultural understanding and other language skills essential for peacebuilding study and work. We will also explore ways in which English language learning and communication can contribute to peacebuilding work in Northeast Asia. The goal of the class is to empower participants as multilingual speakers in their English language skills to be able to engage fully in all aspects of the NARPI experience and to use their English skills to further peacebuilding efforts.
2. Conflict and Peace Framework
Facilitators: Hiro Katano Special Resources: Gayeon Kim
This course will provide a framework knowledge of the peace and conflict studies to those who need introductory provision to the field. It will focus on three major terms of the field: conflict, peace, and violence. The participants will work on defining and understanding these terms, applying them to our local and regional contexts with specific issues and cases. Throughout the course, sessions are composed with various ways of active learning, such as group works, role plays, and communication skills exercises. Further inputs will be provided by the resource persons and in collaboration with other courses. Participants too are expected to contribute to the course as resources to each other by sharing their knowledge, experience, and reflection in class activities.
3. Theory and Practice of Peace Education
Facilitators: Kathy Matsui
The course seeks to introduce the participants to the fundamental knowledge base, skills and value orientations of peace education. It is intended for educators and trainers working in the formal, nonformal and informal sectors. The course will use a holistic framework aimed at cultivating peaceable mindsets, attitudes, behaviors, structures, and cultures in educational settings, which will include topics such as comprehensive views on addressing conflict, restorative justice approaches to discipline in schools, and creating cultures of peace with administration, teachers, students, parents, and community. It will also engage the participants in a learning process that is consistent with the principles of peace, valuing the culture and identity of participants, to demonstrate that content and pedagogy should form one integral whole. Both the course content and process can be easily adaptable to the local contexts of participants.
4.Diverse Approaches to Peacebuilding
Facilitators: Kyoko Okumoto and Jae Young Lee
Peacebuilding is a philosophy that explains why we need to build peace, and at the same time, it is a way to practice how to build peace. This course will help participants to understand an overview of the different areas in which peacebuilding is actually implemented, and what kinds of peacebuilding skills are needed to bring peace. The first half of the course will be facilitated by Kyoko and Jae Young, and in the second half of the course, several resource people will share their peacebuilding experiences and activities. Thus, participants will learn about various peacebuilding experiences and models from practitioners working in the region. This course will consist of lectures and discussion among participants, as well as small workshops where participants are encouraged to actively participate. Through these diverse approaches, participants will learn not only the diverse contents of peacebuilding but also its diverse methodologies.
5. Trainer’s Training (for repeat participants)
Facilitators: Kyoko Okumoto and Jae Young Lee
Requirement: This course is for individuals who have: 1. basic knowledge of conflict transformation and peacebuilding, 2. experience as a trainer, or a desire to work as a trainer in the future, and 3. experience in participation of NARPI courses in the past. The Trainer’s Training workshop will take the participant through the complete process of preparing and carrying out a peacebuilding workshop and provide the necessary tools for planning, designing, and conducting effective trainings. It will focus on the “how to” of designing, delivering, and evaluating peacebuilding training, as well as the development of a systematic approach to peacebuilding and conflict transformation education. Participants will have the opportunity to put their learning into practice by preparing an actual model for a peacebuilding training. The participatory workshop is going to be explored together with co-facilitators and participants by mutually sharing experiences and insights. In addition, participants would be asked to facilitate small groups for evening events or reflection sessions during NARPI training. The course will utilize a broad range of teaching methods from small groups, experiential activities, lectures, to video resources.
Facilitators: Cheryl Woelk Special Resource: Aya Kasai
Requirement:This course is for individuals at novice and low intermediate proficiency levels in English. This content-based course is designed for participants at novice and low intermediate proficiency levels in English who wish to build their English language skills to interact in international peacebuilding settings, including at NARPI. The course will focus on English expressions, vocabulary and strategies for dialogue, building relationships, negotiating meaning, expressing opinions, discussing controversial topics, building intercultural understanding and other language skills essential for peacebuilding study and work. We will also explore ways in which English language learning and communication can contribute to peacebuilding work in Northeast Asia. The goal of the class is to empower participants as multilingual speakers in their English language skills to be able to engage fully in all aspects of the NARPI experience and to use their English skills to further peacebuilding efforts. 2. Conflict and Peace Framework
Facilitators: Hiro Katano Special Resources: Gayeon Kim
This course will provide a framework knowledge of the peace and conflict studies to those who need introductory provision to the field. It will focus on three major terms of the field: conflict, peace, and violence. The participants will work on defining and understanding these terms, applying them to our local and regional contexts with specific issues and cases. Throughout the course, sessions are composed with various ways of active learning, such as group works, role plays, and communication skills exercises. Further inputs will be provided by the resource persons and in collaboration with other courses. Participants too are expected to contribute to the course as resources to each other by sharing their knowledge, experience, and reflection in class activities. 3. Theory and Practice of Peace Education
Facilitators: Kathy Matsui
The course seeks to introduce the participants to the fundamental knowledge base, skills and value orientations of peace education. It is intended for educators and trainers working in the formal, nonformal and informal sectors. The course will use a holistic framework aimed at cultivating peaceable mindsets, attitudes, behaviors, structures, and cultures in educational settings, which will include topics such as comprehensive views on addressing conflict, restorative justice approaches to discipline in schools, and creating cultures of peace with administration, teachers, students, parents, and community. It will also engage the participants in a learning process that is consistent with the principles of peace, valuing the culture and identity of participants, to demonstrate that content and pedagogy should form one integral whole. Both the course content and process can be easily adaptable to the local contexts of participants. 4.Diverse Approaches to Peacebuilding
Facilitators: Kyoko Okumoto and Jae Young Lee
Peacebuilding is a philosophy that explains why we need to build peace, and at the same time, it is a way to practice how to build peace. This course will help participants to understand an overview of the different areas in which peacebuilding is actually implemented, and what kinds of peacebuilding skills are needed to bring peace. The first half of the course will be facilitated by Kyoko and Jae Young, and in the second half of the course, several resource people will share their peacebuilding experiences and activities. Thus, participants will learn about various peacebuilding experiences and models from practitioners working in the region. This course will consist of lectures and discussion among participants, as well as small workshops where participants are encouraged to actively participate. Through these diverse approaches, participants will learn not only the diverse contents of peacebuilding but also its diverse methodologies. 5. Trainer’s Training (for repeat participants)
Facilitators: Kyoko Okumoto and Jae Young Lee
Requirement: This course is for individuals who have: 1. basic knowledge of conflict transformation and peacebuilding, 2. experience as a trainer, or a desire to work as a trainer in the future, and 3. experience in participation of NARPI courses in the past. The Trainer’s Training workshop will take the participant through the complete process of preparing and carrying out a peacebuilding workshop and provide the necessary tools for planning, designing, and conducting effective trainings. It will focus on the “how to” of designing, delivering, and evaluating peacebuilding training, as well as the development of a systematic approach to peacebuilding and conflict transformation education. Participants will have the opportunity to put their learning into practice by preparing an actual model for a peacebuilding training. The participatory workshop is going to be explored together with co-facilitators and participants by mutually sharing experiences and insights. In addition, participants would be asked to facilitate small groups for evening events or reflection sessions during NARPI training. The course will utilize a broad range of teaching methods from small groups, experiential activities, lectures, to video resources.
2. Conflict and Peace Framework
3. Theory and Practice of Peace Education
Restorative justice (RJ) is a new paradigm on how to make things right when wrongdoings have happened. It sees justice as not merely punishing wrongdoers, but ensuring that the voice of victims, offenders, and communities are heard and their needs are met. This course first aims to provide a basic knowledge of RJ with some specific tools for its practice. Specific cases of implementation in Korea, Japan and other contexts will be introduced. The course will also make enough room for exploring the historical conflicts from restorative perspective. The participants will be encouraged to revisit the specific issues of peacebuilding in their contexts from restorative viewpoints, as we seek Asian models of RJ practice. 
The purpose of this workshop is to examine the ways generational traumas live in the body, are passed on generationally, and can be healed to optimize peacemaking. Through guided meditations, expressive arts, and other active learning activities participants will explore how generational traumas consciously and unconsciously interfere with peacemaking even under the best conditions. The workshop will also review how a new understanding about the body can optimize other peacemaking efforts such as “truth and reconciliation,” restorative justice, and non-violent communication. 
This course will explore the paths to face and overcome painful collective memory together among Northeast Asians. It also explores how grassroots creativity can impact to make peace in spaces like museums. The course contents include understanding of diversified collective memory of pain and creation of structures of “history.” It also covers tools and modes of expression of creativity for peace and roles of the media such as the arts and communication to mobilize people to create culture of peace in the Northeast Asian community. How do we educate and exhibit painful history in order to fully understand and deepen the meanings of peace in the region? The course will be meaningful and fruitful by each participant bringing, sharing and exchanging creativity for peace and passion for peaceful coexistence of Northeast Asia. We are open to anyone who wishes to overcome historical peacelessness, who dreams to create peaceful coexistence of Asia and beyond, and who simply enjoys creativity for peace. 
In this class, we will explore three different aspects of community. First, we will look at “group dynamics” as a foundational level. Every group forms their ‘group dynamic’ and creates their own rules, structures and patterns of their systems. Some dynamics are healthy, but some are not. In this session, participants will increase their understanding of group dynamics, and how to emphasize healthy dynamics and reduce unhealthy ones. Second, we will learn about making healthy organizations by learning how to sense and analyze organizational dynamics and culture, followed by how to leverage healthy organizational culture. This will be focused on workplace or learning community (i.e. university) contexts, depending on participants. Third, we will learn about different approaches to build healthy community at local and global levels. We will then apply these approaches to our own community and make action plans for beyond the course timeline. We will explore different types of community forms and examples, and we will learn from their structure, communication and especially their way to solve conflicts.
7. Optimizing Peacemaking by Ending Generational Trauma
1. Comfort Women Museum
2. Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall
3. Mei Yuan Community Center