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	Saving Lives in Pakistan: the USIP Connection June 2012 Thomas Omestad talks about the exclusive story of how a USIP-trained conflict manager helped to avert "honor" killings in a rural Pakistani village. Countries: Pakistan \| Issue Areas: Post-Conflict and Peacekeeping Activities, Training \| Programs: Academy for International Conflict Management and Peacebuilding

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	Peacebuilding Workshop for Pakistani Religious Leaders October 2012 USIP sponsored a peacebuilding and conflict management workshop from September 20 through October 1in Turkey. Eleven leaders represented all of the major Sufi orders and came from both rural and urban centers. In addition to an intensive workshop, the program intended for the Pakistanis to learn from Turkish civil society organizations and to better understand their model of religious moderation. Countries: Pakistan \| Issue Areas: Religion and Peacemaking
	Consolidating a Spirit of Peace September 2012 USIP’s Virginia Bouvier and Susan Hayward recently traveled to Colombia in order to strengthen the connection between religion, women and peace. This "In the Field" is an account of their trip. Countries: Colombia \| Issue Areas: Gender and Peacebuilding, Post-Conflict and Peacekeeping Activities
	Banaa Scholars at USIP August 2012 USIP Academy staff Linda Bishai and Jacqueline Wilson trained a group of youth visiting as part of the Banaa Scholarship program. Countries: South Sudan, Sudan, The Two Sudans \| Issue Areas: Training, Youth and Peacebuilding
	USIP to Develop Practitioner's Toolkit for Justice and Security Dialogues August 2012 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. Countries: Iraq, Nepal \| Issue Areas: Rule of Law, Training
	USIP Trains Togolese on Negotiation Skills and Civilian Protection July 2012 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. Countries: Africa, Togo \| Issue Areas: Mediation and Facilitation, Negotiation and Diplomacy, Post-Conflict and Peacekeeping Activities, Training

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