The Peace and Youth Cooperation project for the year 2004 is based on the assumption that the education track for the South Asian peace can be built by filling the informational gap and making peace relevant to the needs of everyday practices, both curricular and co-curricular, of the universities in the region. To that end, 10 public universities, including the one from India, have been earmarked whereby the project aims are aggregated through group formation, seminars, research, student exchanges, policy dialogues, establishment of an information network, follow-up of the previous year’s regional dialogue, sharing and dissemination, and holding of a region wise peace and youth dialogue.

Building on Bargad’s experience in universities and colleges the project activities in cooperation with interested practitioners and the concerned authorities will deliver one (1) regional peace dialogue; twelve (12) one day seminars/ talks/ presentations before university students and the faculty; two (2) youth exchanges, one (1) research study on hate-speech within the curriculum of history at the Masters level; publication and dissemination of 10 reports based on discussions and a quarterly magazine; one (1) policy dialogue; setting up of an information network correspondents team for the magazine; establishment of at least 10 peace groups at the selected universities and a joint group at the regional level, and instituting and updating of a website.