International Insitute of Peace and Development S.

International Institute of Peace and Development Studies (IIPDS), administered by ARF, has offered courses and runs workshops across Asia on peace studies, development and human rights. It provides training for peace building, conflict transformation, negotiation and reconciliation. It also hosts interfaith forums and dialogue exchange in order to create practical solutions to pressing social issues. Through these activities, IIPDS aims to create a new generation of peace workers, peace defenders and peace negotiators towards the prevention of conflict and the promotion and sustenance of peace in multi-ethnic, multi-cultural Asia and beyond. Each year around 150 youth and mid-level professionals from different countries take part in those training courses and workshops offered by IIPDS.