The Summer Peacebuilding Training is hosted in a different part of Northeast Asia each August. If you’re interested in joining, please read about the courses and facilitators. The application period is from May to June each year. Please apply! We welcome participants from all parts of Northeast Asia, and beyond.

NARPI 2019 Summer Peacebuilding Training

 

Nanjing, China
We will begin accepting applications for the 2019 NARPI training starting April 2019.

Dates for NARPI 2019:
Registration: August 8
Week 1: August 9-13
Field trip: August 14-16
Week 2: August 17-21
Departures: August 22


2018 Courses

Week 1: August 9-13, 2018

1. Conflict and Peace Framework
Facilitators: Kyoko Okumoto and Special Resource: Hong Soek Kim

This course will introduce the definition and contextual interpretations of conflict, violence and peace. The focus is to enhance participants’ understandings of conflict & peace issues in the local and regional context through dialogues, discussions, and exercises with other participants from different cultures / languages/ historical contexts/countries. Also, participants will raise their level of sensitivity towards violence in various forms. Opportunities and tools will be provided to analyse the dynamics of different local and regional conflicts. Participants will explore possibilities for creative and collaborative ways of conflict resolution, transformation and peacebuilding. Participants will be expected to engage in large and small group discussions, creative exercises and case analyses.

2. Restorative Justice Paradigm and Its Practice
Facilitators: Atsuhiro Katano and Special Resource: Jae Young Lee

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. Then the course will invite RJ practitioners in Korea trying to implement RJ into the fields of schools, legal system, and communities. In Korea, RJ concept has been spreading throughout the country in past 10 years especially through schools. Their sharing and experiences would become signs of hope and encouragement for participants who want to know more about Asian models of RJ practice.

3. Optimizing Peace Making by Ending Generational Trauma
Facilitators: Aya Kasai and Tommy Lee Woon

The purpose of this workshop is to examine the way generational trauma lives in the body and why this knowledge is valuable for optimizing peacemaking. Through a variety of active-learning exercises such as guided meditation and expressive arts, participants will learn how trauma lives in the body, is passed on generationally, and how it can be healed. Participants will also have an opportunity to apply their new understanding about the body to other peace making efforts such as “truth and reconciliation”. This workshop will be valuable to anyone interested in gaining an embodied understanding of peace making.


1. Conflict and Peace Framework


2. Restorative Justice Paradigm and Its Practice


3. Optimizing Peace Making by Ending Generational Trauma

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Week 2: August 17-21, 2018

4. Theory and Practice of Peace Education
Facilitators: Cheryl Woelk and 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.

5. Peacebuilding Beyond Nationalism and Militarization
Facilitators: Ryozo Teruoka and Special Resource: Kang-ho Song

This course will use both dialogue and participatory approaches, and will explore the shape of a coexisting Asia by addressing (actual and potential) ethnically/nationalistically linked violent phenomena with an emphasis on militarization. Human rights oriented democracy—which is supposed to respect individual dignity to a maximum—is the mainstream system nowadays. However, not only Northeast Asia but also the world has a lot of ethnically and nationalistically linked violent phenomena such as military standoffs between nations, racist acts, historical revisionism, which devalue individual dignity. This course will guide the participants to develop their understanding of the link between ethno-national centrism and militarism as well as creating an opportunity to develop ideas of a coexisting Asia. The participants are expected to come up with their own proposal for realistic solidarity in the future among the participants. There will be a lot of dialogue and discussion addressing several inter/intra-states ethnic/nationalistic related issues and militarization issues. There will also be a lot of activities such as simulations, role playing, comedy making, etc. The theme and topics are a bit heavy, but the experience of the course will be fun thanks to the participants’ creativity.

6. Arts, Media, and Peacebuilding
Facilitators: Kyoko Okumoto and Special Resource: Gayeon Kim

This course will focus on the role of the arts and the media in peacebuilding in general and in Northeast Asia specifically. The course will explore the functions of narratives, dialogue, journalism and various art forms to transform conflicts and create the culture and structure of peace. The course content includes understanding the concept of conflict transformation and how the arts and media resist, encourage and create with citizen artists’ imagination and creativity. In addition to practical skill exercises, there will be inputs from guest speakers and local resource people, and the participants are encouraged to examine and share their own stories in their daily settings, such as family, neighborhood, workplaces, and wider society. The course will also try to approach cultural and historical conflict in Northeast Asia by exploring the artistic capacity among participants. This course is open to anyone who is willing to become an art-minded peace worker, who lives with conflict by artfully transforming the narrative of trauma and violence into that of healing and reconciliation.


4. Theory and Practice of Peace Education


5. Peacebuilding Beyond Nationalism and Militarization


6. Arts, Media, and Peacebuilding

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Field Trip: August 14-16, 2018

NARPI provides a three-day field trip (usually between Sessions 1 and 2) where participants visit sites and meet people that have experienced historical, political, social and cultural conflict and peace. The field trip takes place in the country where NARPI is held.

On Day 1 of the field trip, we will visit both Altteureu Airfield and 4.3 Peace Park to learn about the history of violence Jeju has experienced. On Day 2, we will visit Gangjeong village and the Korean naval base to hear from Gangjeong village residents about their story of struggle against militarization on the island. On Day 3, we will visit Dongbaek Village and experience a Jeju eco tour to learn how mass tourism is hurting the island and what the alternatives for the future are.


1. Visit to Altteureu Airfield & Jeju 4.3 Peace Park


2. Visit to Gangjeong Village & Korean Naval Base


3. Jeju Eco Tour and visiting Dongbaek Village

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Evening Events

At NARPI trainings, meaningful sharing and learning continues after classes have finished each day. Some evening events are planned by the hosting group, to introduce more about the historical, cultural or social issues of the hosting area. Most evening events, though, are planned by participants, as a way to share their interests or experiences with others, through presentations, videos and discussion.

In addition, there is a Culture and Talent Night in Week 2, during which time participants and facilitators present their cultures through song, dance, games, food, photos, etc.

2018 Facilitators

2018 Special Resource Persons

Kang-ho Song
Peacebuilding Beyond Militarization

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2018 Schedule

Session 1
August 9-13 
(Registration August 8)		 Course #1
Conflict and Peace Framework
Kyoko Okumoto		 Course #2
Restorative Justice: Peacebuilding Skills
Atsuhiro Katano		 Course #3
Optimizing Peace Making by Ending Generational Trauma
Aya Kasai & Tommy Lee Woon
Field Trip –
August 14-16		 Visit the Jeju 4.3 Peace Park, Altteureu Airfield, Gangjeong Village & Korean naval base, and Dongbaek Village for eco tourism. Opportunities to hear from peace activists living near the join naval base.
Session 2
August 17-21
(Departures August 22)		 Course #4
Theory and Practice of Peace Education
Cheryl Woelk & Kathy Matsui		 Course #5
Peacebuilding Beyond Nationalism and Militarization
Ryozo Teruoka		 Course #6
Arts, Media, and Peacebuilding
Kyoko Okumoto

Follow these steps to apply!

  1. Read the 2018 Summer Training information package
  2. Complete the application form, along with all required documents
    (resume, recommendation letter, passport copy). If you are from mainland China and/or unable to open the link, please complete the application via this word document and email to apply@narpi.net. Submit by June 15.
  3. After receiving the acceptance letter and billing statement, transfer your payment to the NARPI bank account.
  4. Purchase direct flight ticket to Jeju, or make other plans for transportation.
  5. After receiving the pre-course readings and field trip readings by email, start studying to prepare for your courses and the trip.
  6. Join the Summer Training and enjoy two weeks of networking, sharing and learning.

Lodging and Food

The 2018 NARPI Summer Peacebuilding Training will be held at Booyoung Youth Center, located in the southern part of Jeju, about 1.5 hours from Jeju International Airport. Most participants will stay in 4-person rooms, either a bunk bed or an ondol room (see website for photos). Breakfast, lunch and dinner will be served at Booyoung Youth Center.

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Cost2018 Fees

Lodging, Food and Transportation Tuition Total
Week 1 $275 $275 $550
Field Trip $200 $100 $300
Week 2 $275 $275 $550
Whole program $750 $650 $1400

*Note: Participants are welcome to join for one or both weeks. All participants are encouraged to join the field trip.

Scholarships

Recognizing the high cost of attending NARPI, a limited number of partial NARPI scholarships may be offered on a needs basis, to participants with a demonstrable commitment to peacework in the Northeast Asia region. Contact the administration team to request a scholarship application form: apply@narpi.net.

Early Payment discounts (full payment required. Not applicable to scholarship recipients)

If paid from May 15 – June 15: 15% discount of total due amount
If paid from June 16 – July 15: 7% discount of the total due amount
If paid after July 15: No discount

Withdrawal Policy

Participants may withdraw up to two weeks before the training begins with a full refund, minus a 10% non-refundable process fee (for administration costs). No refund will be issued for a cancellation two weeks or less before the beginning of the training.

Participants

NARPI welcomes people with a deep interest in peacebuilding in Northeast Asia to study and share life together for two weeks each summer. Basic criteria for participants include

  1. Some level of experience in peacebuilding work or study, or passion for peacebuilding.
  2. Commitment to share what you learn at NARPI with your organization or community.
  3. English ability sufficient to understand and participate in workshops conducted in English.

NARPI participants usually come from the following groups

NGO/NPO staff and interns

Peace educators and activists

Teachers and professors

Students (high school graduates, university, graduate school)

Government officials, military and police

Community leaders

Religious leaders

Anyone interested in peacebuilding in NEA