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Latest from USIP on Training
- August 10, 2012 | In the Field
USIP Academy staff Linda Bishai and Jacqueline Wilson trained a group of youth visiting as part of the Banaa Scholarship program.
- August 9, 2012 | Publication
USIP awards two new grants to international groups that will work in Kyrgyzstan to help detect nascent conflicts and to bolster mediation and conflict resolution skills in the Central Asian nation.
- August 6, 2012 | In the Field
USIP will draw on its innovative effort to sponsor dialogue between security agencies and civil society in Nepal and Iraq to develop a new "toolkit" to help practitioners in the field run similar programs in other transitional or post-conflict countries.
- August 1, 2012 | Publication
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton this week left for a tour of Africa, including a visit to the world’s newest nation of South Sudan. USIP is providing seed funding and advisory support for the Sudd Institute, a new nongovernmental policy institute based in Juba. By helping to build South Sudan's capacity to develop and implement smart policies, USIP is fostering the new nation's ability to address the sort of instability and conflicts that have plagued other states in transition and led to deeper, more costly international involvement.
- July 30, 2012 | In the Field
When USIP’s Alison Milofsky traveled to Togo in early July to provide negotiation training to the country’s military for upcoming peacekeeping missions, she armed herself with a 1994 New York Times article about Rwanda. This marked the second Togo visit for Milofsky, who works for USIP’s Academy for International Conflict Management and Peacebuilding, which trains African security personnel as part of the State Department’s African Contingency Operations Training and Assistance program, or ACOTA, that USIP has worked with for the last few years.
- July 30, 2012 | Publication
The U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) is providing seed funding and advisory support for the Sudd Institute, a new, nongovernmental policy institute based in Juba, South Sudan. Abraham Awolich, a South Sudanese specialist in public administration with experience in development and governance issues and the acting executive director of the Sudd Institute sat down with USIP.
- July 27, 2012 | Publication
Preparing high-level advisers to support reform of postconflict states requires specific training in how to transfer knowledge in a complex, alien environment, how to operate without formal authority, and how to cultivate local ownership.
- July 24, 2012 | Publication
The "Mass Atrocity Prevention and Response Options Tabletop Exercise," held June 12 and 13 at USIP, brought together key government agencies for an exercise designed to build relationships between agencies and help participants become more comfortable with planning for a potential mass atrocity in the fictional country of Atropia.
- July 16, 2012 | In the Field
Since 2010, USIP has conducted a series of conflict resolution trainings in Haiti for Haitian civil society activists.
- July 10, 2012 | Publication
USIP trained hundreds of African peacekeepers in seven nations this year in how to negotiate and mediate the peace.
- July 9, 2012 | Course
Understand the causes of conflict and violent extremism in tribal Muslim societies and learn how to develop policies and programs in conflict resolution, governance, justice, security, and development that contribute to sustainable peace.
- June 26, 2012 | Publication
The Strategic Economic Needs and Security Exercise (SENSE), a state-of-the-art computer-facilitated simulation that teaches peacebuilding and negotiating skills, has helped more than 1,650 Iraqis in government, nongovernmental organizations and academia learn collaborative and decision-making skills that should directly strengthen their efforts to advance development and manage conflicts in a country until recently torn by war and still facing terrorist strikes.
- June 15, 2012 | Event
After Secretary of State Hillary Clinton introduced the QDDR as a major step in elevating development alongside diplomacy as a key pillar of American foreign policy, many non-governmental organizations (NGOs) welcomed the QDDR as the beginning of a better coordinated and more effective approach to global development. USIP and Webster University will host a day of discussion about how the QDDR complements NGO efforts in development, humanitarian relief and conflict management as well as the current challenges and opportunities that result from the QDDR.
- June 2, 2012 | In the Field
Thomas Omestad talks about the exclusive story of how a USIP-trained conflict manager helped to avert "honor" killings in a rural Pakistani village.
- June 1, 2012 | Publication
Thomas Omestad talks about the exclusive story of how a USIP-trained conflict manager helped to avert "honor" killings in a rural Pakistani village.