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Celebrate Elise Boulding: Become a Sustaining Supporter

In honor of Elise, NPA is conducting a special campaign from Mother’s Day until Elise’s birthday on July 6th. We invite you to honor Elise’s life work by becoming a monthly sustaining supporter. Any monthly, recurring gift a $5-$555 supports this goal.

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Ripples of Peace

National Peace Academy students and alumni are making "ripples of peace" around the world! Read the stories of how our students our applying what they have been learning on our alumni blog.

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Upcoming Courses & Workshops

The NPA offers courses and workshops, online and in-person, around the year. All courses earn credit toward NPA's Peacebuilding Peacelearning Certificate Program. Upcoming courses explore the use of technology for social change, peace education, peace leadership, and domestic violence.

Learning for Peacebuilders and Changemakers

The NPA is a home for peacebuilders and changemakers who are seeking knowledge and skills to create safe, healthy and sustainable communities and nurture positive change in themselves and the world…

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NPA’s Peacelearning Programs

The National Peace Academy offers a variety of programs supporting the full development of the peacebuilder – inner and outer, personal and professional.

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Making Learning for Peace Accessible and Affordable

Peacebuilding vocations, just like careers in science, business or technology, are built upon foundations of knowledge and skills that are pursued through lifelong learning. While numerous universities are now offerings degree programs in peace related fields, opportunities to gain skills and knowledge in peacebuilding remain relatively inaccessible and expensive. The NPA, through partnerships with expert and experienced peacebuilders, is working hard to make learning for peace and change accessible, available and affordable to all.

A Holistic Approach: Five Interrelated Spheres of Peace

The National Peace Academy takes a holistic approach to the development of the peacebuilder. We believe the inner and personal work and learning is as important as the outer and professional. This perspective is supported by our understanding of peace that is shaped by the definition contained in the Earth Charter of peace as the “wholeness created by right relationships with oneself, other persons, other cultures, other life, Earth, and the larger whole of which all are a part.” We explore this holistic conception of peace through inquiry into five interrelated and interdependent spheres of peace and right relationships: the personal, the social, the political, the institutional and the ecological. These 5 spheres of peace are the foundation of NPA’s Program Framework. Each of NPA’s courses and programs explores at least one of the 5 spheres in depth and most courses examine the interdependent relationships between multiple, if not all spheres.

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