The African Peace and Democratic Institute (API) sets out to provide the platform for peace education, with focus on two major segments: - Cultural Peace Issues and Policy Issues. It is our understanding that citizens of every community in pursuance of happiness must seek to develop their communities, nations, regions and continent. That in so doing, people must fully understand and actively implement peace values, non-violence, social justice, and governance as pre-requisites for sustainable development. That for lasting peace, the absence of war must become a reality sustained through peace education, systematic and total disarm-ament and control of conventional and small arms proliferation. The African Peace Institute therefore in its program and infrastructural design has taken into consideration cultural and policy peace issues by providing facilities for continuous and certificate learning for aspiring peace activists and a home for peace exchange programs. It will provide an ideal environment for mediation and dialogue between individuals, communities, and nations as well as a solemn environment for national, regional, continental and global peace programming. The design of the Institute’s programs is dynamic, being developed through a wide spectrum consultation at the national, regional and international levels. We believe that peace programs and campaigns while satisfying cultural realities must fit squarely within a national, regional, and/or global context. These systematic peace education and peace works are in the best believe of the African Peace Institute, going to create a better spirit of ownership of programs and guarantee its sustainability.
In the short term, we expect to see a new generation of Africans who fully understand peace and are practicing it at family, community and national levels. We expect to see an increase in cross boarder dialogue and multilateral peace projects. In effect, we will witness a dramatic increase in the number of persons within the nations and continent with up-to-date knowledge in peace work. In the midterm, translating into the long term, we will see an increase networking and on-going consultation between peace leaders on policy issues and an effective decrease and final elimination of all forms of nuclear weapons, the prevention of conventional and small arms proliferation. An effective success in this domain will eventually end up in the elimination of war. The absence of spending on weapons and the elimination of war will redirect the focus of communities and nations to developmental issues for an eventual elimination of poverty at all levels.

For this to become a reality, good leadership and activism at all levels linked together within communities, nations and across the globe must take roots. Governments must naturally understand the values of peace and disarmament or should be helped along the path to understanding this by peace teachers and activists. These are the guarding statements in the design and implementation of programs at the African Peace Institute.

Proposed infrastructure: The infrastruc-ture of the Institute will provide a con-ducive Lecture Hall, an administrative building, a Conference Center (with multiple conference halls), a Peace Museum, a Resource Center/Library, a multimedia auditorium (1000 seats), a 120-room accommodation for students studying peace on campus, an 80-room visitors’ lodge (for visiting lecturers, conference delegates etc), a Restaurant to support feeding on campus, an indoor Sports’ Center

Program Design
Teaching programs: These are designed courses that are taught within the Institute’s active-program system. Programs that are the real time imple-mentation of the knowledge imparted. Time Driven Peace Programs: conferences, meetings and public speaking and seminars, etc.

How will APDI be financed?
Donations from the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Foundation, donations from the Board of trustees, donations from Foundations, donations from individuals, funding from some UN organs and specialized agencies, funding from corporations, Government funding, etc.  All donations are acknow-ledged here on our website, and ‘Thank You’ Certificates will be historically delivered and acknowledged at the Peace & Development Heroes Center (PDHC). The “Peace and Development Heroes Center” is specially designed to honor all those who will contribute towards the realization of this project. The Center is attached to the Peace Museum and will immortalize all donors to this project. The Center is divided into categories depending on the amount of the donation made. Donations in kind are accepted and evaluated so as to place the donor in the right category.

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Citizens:	$100 - 500
Bronx:	$501 - 1000
Silver:	$1001-3000
Silver+:	$3001-5000
Gold:	$5001 -10000
Gold+:	$10001 - 20000
Premium:	$20001-50000
Premium+:	$50001-above