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Asia-Pacific Schools Initiative

ASIA-PACIFIC SCHOOLS INITIATIVE

The Asia-Pacific Schools Initiative is a educational platform being convened by the Centre for Escalation of Peace (CEP) comprising of multiple programmes, targeted at both school students & teachers, that collectively aim at creating a network of future leaders for the region, developing and nurturing in each one of them the capacity to exercise “Leadership through Serene Strength”.

It is envisaged that the participants in the Asia-Pacific Schools Initiative, both students as well as teachers, will create a positive change in themselves as well as in the local and global environment that they are stakeholders in.

This programme will enable them to lead with inner calm and equanimity by building on the common values and shared culture of the Asia-Pacific community. Moreover, it will celebrate the diversity and uniqueness of the various local contexts.

Currently, the Asia-Pacific Schools Initiative plans to roll-out two separate yet interlinked 10-month-long educational programmes in 2017. Each of the two inaugural programmes will start and end with a brief period (up to two weeks in duration) where participants will gather together in a single physical location along with the Asia-Pacific Schools Initiative faculty (“APSI faculty”).

In between these two ‘contact’ segments, the participants will continue to collaborate and work together, under the guidance of & with mentorship from the APSI faculty, using various online platforms from their respective home locations.

The two programmes that will be part of the inaugural Asia-Pacific Schools Initiative in 2017 are:

1. Asia-Pacific Schools Initiative: Youth Leadership Programme for Students and Teachers from across the APAC region starting & ending at the Pallavan School in Jhalawar (RJ), India

2. Asia-Pacific Schools Initiative: Youth Leadership Programme for Students from across the Delhi/NCR Region starting & ending at the Vasant Valley School in New Delhi, India.

Each of the two programmes mentioned above will have a limit of 30-40 participants in order to ensure that the interaction between the participants and the APSI faculty is meaningful and individualized.

Throughout 2017, the programmes are being generously supported by the New Delhi-based Pallavan Learning Systems by way of scholarships for each participant with an expectation that further support will be generated as the programme continues to grow in subsequent years.