Our first-ever Comprehensive Development Campaign will raise 3 million dollars over 3 years and supports 3 comprehensive areas of development: Capital, Endowment, and Expansion.
…restorative justice training with a focus on RJ practices in schools; truth-telling and national dialogues around racial injustice, religious intolerance, natural resources; development of peace curricula for schools; and much more.
Point of View is an international retreat and research center dedicated to peace - a "Civilian Camp David" - located at George Mason University's School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution (S-CAR). Through an historic collaboration between NPA and S-CAR, Point of View is expanding to include residential facilities and opportunities for joint NPA/S-CAR programming.
Based on the Earth Charter’s definition of peace, NPA’s programs and initiatives focus on five interrelated and interdependent spheres of peace: personal, social, political, institutional, and ecological.
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.
Why do people support the NPA?
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Dot Maver (NPA founder, trustee, past president, and board member) published the following article for the Ashland (OR) Peace Commission in the Ashland Daily Tidings, Sunday, Oct 9, 2016: It all started at age 13. My anger exploded at my brother and then dissolved as I “saw myself in other.” I swore…
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As part of our historic partnership with S-CAR, Point of View and our shared mission to bring together and better support the many people doing peacebuilding work in the United States, in June 2017 we collaborated with others to host an intimate gathering of peacebuilders in Mason Neck, VA, to…
During our June “Innovating in Challenging Times” peacebuilding leadership gathering at Point of View (POV), the National Peace Academy and others in attendance agreed to gather at several of the annual peacebuilding and conflict resolution conferences – as an opportunity to reconvene and engage more folks across the country. In…
On March 19, 2017, the National Peace Academy and over 40 other interfaith and civil society organizations partnered with the San Francisco Bay Area's Muslim Community Association and American Muslim Voice Foundation, who hosted the event, to show solidarity with the Muslim community and with all faith-based, ethnic, and immigrant…