PrintJeffrey Helsing
Dean of Curriculum, Academy for International Conflict Management and Peacebuilding
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Helsing is the Dean of Curriculum for the Institute's Academy for International Conflict Management and Peacebuilding, where he focuses on education in international relations, conflict resolution, human rights and peace studies. He has been responsible for many of the Institute's faculty and teacher workshops as well as curriculum development in the United States and in conflict zones abroad, particularly in the Middle East. For the past five years, Helsing has worked with groups in Israel and the Palestinian Authority training educators, NGO workers, university students and young leaders in developing conflict resolution, nonviolence, human rights, and communication and facilitation skills. Helsing has twenty years of experience as an educator. He was an assistant professor of political science at the American University in Cairo and has taught at Georgetown University, The George Washington University, Swarthmore College and the University of Pennsylvania. He has taught a broad range of international relations subjects, including conflict resolution, human rights, comparative foreign policies, American foreign policy and international relations theory.
Helsing holds a B.A. in history from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University.
Publications:
- Human Rights and Conflict: Exploring the Links between Rights, Law and Peacebuilding, co-edited with Julie Mertus (USIP Press, 2006).
- "Young People's Activism and the Transition to Peace: Bosnia, Northern Ireland, and Israel," in Troublemakers or Peacemakers? Youth and Post-Accord Peacebuilding, co-author, edited by Siobhán McEvoy-Levy (University of Notre Dame Press, 2006).
- "Palestinian-Israeli Education Efforts: Opportunities and Challenges," Common Ground News Service , May 2005.
- "The Regionalization, Internationalization, and Perpetuation of Conflict in the Middle East," Ethnic Conflict and International Politics: Explaining Diffusion and Escalation (2004).
- "The American Shadow: U.S. Foreign Policy in the Middle East," The International Relations of the Middle East in the 21st Century: Patterns of Continuity and Change (2001).
- Johnson's War/Johnson's Great Society: The Guns and Butter Trap (2000).
Publications & Tools
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The Institute’s Academy for International Conflict Management and Peacebuilding, in collaboration with Future Generations Graduate School, has begun teaching peacebuilding to international development practitioners in courses that have been conducted online as well as in India and Kenya. The new USIP role addresses an often unmet need: practical education in peacebuilding for people working in community development. |
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Peacebuilding is increasingly viewed as a methodological “lens” through which practitioners in related fields integrate key principles of peacebuilding into the structure and objectives of their work, according to new research unveiled at the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) on May 11. Such a lens adds a new dimension to the ways in which practitioners design and assess development and stabilization interventions. Issue Areas: Conflict Analysis and Prevention, Education, Training
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To honor this worldwide event, USIP presents some highlights of peacebuilding around the world in 2011. |
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USIP has supported over 300 products, projects, and activities related to human rights and peacebuilding. From grants to fellowships, from training to education, from working groups to publications, the Institute strives to encourage more practice and scholarly work on the issue of human rights, and seeks to deepen understanding of the role human rights play in conflict and in peace. Issue Areas: Human Rights
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This much-needed volume brings these perspectives together to create a composite picture of the relationship between human rights and conflict. The relationship between human rights and conflict is dynamic, complex, and powerful, constantly shaping and reshaping the course of both peace and war. Issue Areas: Conflict Analysis and Prevention, Rule of Law
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Events
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October 18, 2012
In May 2012, Education Above All, a Doha-based education group, commissioned papers from practitioners and thematic experts that map and analyze the most widely used of different curricula, collectively designated as “education for global citizenship,” and the policies that have accompanied their implementation. To explore the findings of this research, the project director, technical adviser and expert on conflict and education, Margaret Sinclair, discuss these research findings with experts from USIP and the Brookings Institution. |
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June 15, 2012
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. |
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May 11, 2012
On May 11, USIP hosted a series of discussions ranging from managing conflict in complex environments to lessons learned from USIP-funded projects. The sessions were part of the 2012 Alliance for Peacebuilding's Annual Conference which focused on new models for peacebuilding that works across disciplines in chaotic, fragile environments. |
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April 19, 2012
"Mapping Energy Infrastructure Vulnerabilities in Conflict-Affected Regions," an focused on the results from the new Energy Infrastructure Attack Database, pioneered by researchers at the Zurich-based Center for Security Studies. The discussion was led by Jennifer Giroux, a lead researcher at the Center for Security Studies. |
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October 19, 2006
Issue Areas: Religion and Peacemaking
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