India’s Department of Post has commemorated the fiftieth anniversary of Asia Plateau, the IofC conference centre in Western India, with the publication of a Special Cover envelope, on sale in post offices.

2018 marks the 50th anniversary of the global centre “Asia Plateau”, the conference and training centre of Initiatives of Change, India. Initiatives of Change, formerly known as Moral Rearmament (MRA) inaugurated the first building on the 20th of January, 1968. To mark this occasion Asia Plateau will celebrate its 50th from the 17th to the 21st of January, 2018 with the theme 'Celebrating Differences, Melting Divisions'.

The 23rd Asia Pacific Youth Conference (APYC) will be held at Asia Plateau, the international training and conference centere of Initiatives of Change in Panchgani, India from 27 December, 2017 to 3 January, 2018.
The theme will be ‘The Future We Want’, and we invite you to join us, as we explore this theme and prepare ourselves to respond to the challenges of our times.

The Asia Plateau Internship/Volunteership Programme is looking for internship coordinators. The programme is an integral part of Asia Plateau, the IofC conference centre in India. Programmes run throughout the year for people from various backgrounds, students, teachers, families, industries, army, government etc, mostly from India. Applicants need to be responsible for the whole period of Internship/Volunteership: 1st Term 1 September - 15 February ; 2nd Term 1 February - 30 June.

Rajmohan Gandhi gave a speech of honest reflection on the challenges facing peace and reconciliation at a public talk jointly hosted by Initiatives of Change, Faiths Forum for London, the Next Century Foundation and the Guerrand-Hermès Foundation for Peace.

17 NE friends and 9 from elsewhere were at the conclave held at “Kerunyuki”, Sechu-Zubza, Nagaland
from 9th of March to the 12th evening.

In 2017 the third Caux Scholars class graduated from the program in India. They have written letters back to the Caux Scholars community. They describe what they took away from the program and how they are applying what they learned in their lives now. We share their letters with you.

Asia Plateau, the Initiatives of Change (IofC) international conference centre in Panchgani, India will be 50 years on 20 January 2018. Fifty people are invited to give ‘a year of selfless service’ to reach out in five intergenerational teams, to many corners of India - and beyond. Teams of convinced, and convincing people who help 5000 people put at least one thing right in 2018 to serve society better!

50th year of Asia Plateau and the 10th year of Grampari starts with 350 villagers+150 trainees, volunteers , 10 from Jharkhand and staff thronging for a day long Programme.

Teachers are called ‘nation builders’. If that is true, what sort of nation/world have we built over the years? The most impressionable part of a person’s life is spent in school. This is the time one’s attitudes and values are shaped.