With the aim to facilitate people-to-people communication and create a culture of mutual respect and understanding, Aaghaz-e-Dosti runs Friends Beyond Borders, an eight-week virtual peace building course to facilitate bonds of friendship and understanding between Indians and Pakistanis. Friends Beyond Borders is the first and only virtual peace building course in South Asia.

In Friends Beyond Border, an Indian and a Pakistani has been paired to be “Indo-Pak E-Pals”. Through this eight-week interactive course, the fellows or the Indo-Pak E-Pals are guided by a mentor who gives them weekly plans/activities based on a curriculum designed to familiarize them with the ‘other’, its culture, society, politics and the existence of divergent narratives. The interaction and exchange of knowledge between the fellows is assisted by trained mentors. Peace resources prepared by Aaghaz-e-Dosti and lectures by academicians.

Friends Beyond Borders aims to develop critical thinking, acceptance and respect for differences in order to celebrate similarities with a belief in peace and dialogue as the sane way forward.

At the completion of the course, a certificate is awarded to the fellows.