During the time period 1st January - 31st December 2007 NIPU will undertake programmes focusing on the current status of the problem of national integration in Sri Lanka:

1. National Reconciliation through inter religious dialogues
2. National Integration through language and culture
3. National Integration through the promotion of public culture of pluralism
4. National Integration through constructive handling of differences and conflicts
5. Promotion of national reconciliation among the war-affected North-East communities
6. Sinhala-Tamil integration in the Plantation areas
7. Coordination, Monitoring and Research Unit at NIPU

1. Name of the Programme
   Promotion of National Reconciliation among the communities in the North-East Provinces
   
   
2. Goal
   
   • Creating awareness of the multi-ethnic reality of Sri Lankan society
   • Building confidence and mutual trust among communities iii. Support different
   • communities to overcome the psychological barriers created by the war and communal conflicts
   • Strengthening the national reconciliation process in Sri Lanka
   
   
   
3. Objectives/ Activities
   
   
   • Capacity-building of regional personnel in the public, private and non-profit sectors
   • Strengthening the training and educational capacities of the above institutions
   • Conducting training programs for selected Resource Persons/Facilitators
     Conducting awareness programs/ dialogues for the selected target groups through trained Facilitators
   • Establishing Centers engaged in community level “database building”, “mediation” and “early warning” activities
     
     
4. Target Group
   The target groups comes from four categories:
   
   
   • Local Resource Persons: This category will include selected graduates, young teachers from the Universities, Teacher Training Colleges and Colleges of Education, administrators from public and private sectors and the NGO activists
     
     
   • Community leaders: This category will include university student leaders, youth leaders, trade union leaders, young local level politicians, local level public and private sector personnel.
     
     
   • Grass Root leaders: This category will include Buddhist Monks and the leaders of rural level organizations such as Farmer Societies, Rural Development Societies and other rural level Self-help groups
     
     
   • General public: This category will include village level leaders, victims of war including IDPs.