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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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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. |
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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
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August 2012
USIP Academy staff Linda Bishai and Jacqueline Wilson trained a group of youth visiting as part of the Banaa Scholarship program. |
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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. |
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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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