Academy Courses by Date
The courses offered through USIP’s Academy for International Conflict Management and Peacebuilding provide a mix of theory and practice, with a heavy dose of applied exercises, including case studies, simulations, and small group exercises. In addition, the courses attract participants from a range of backgrounds. Participants receive a certificate for successful completion of each course.
Spring 2012
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May 2012
- Pilot: Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law
- Land, Property, and Conflict
- Pilot: Health Care in Post-Conflict and Fragile States
- Negotiations from Checkpoints to High Politics
- Preventing Electoral Violence in Africa: Tools for Policymakers
June 2012
- Pilot: Facilitation in Complex Environments
- Pilot: Cultural Adaptability: Advanced Applications
- Strengthening Capacity in a Reform Environment: For Mentors and Advisers
- Peacebuilding Organizations and Institutions
- Pilot: Trauma and Peacebuilding
July 2012
- Pilot: Peacebuilding in Tribal Muslim Societies
- Supporting Police Reform: Capacity Building for Advisers and Trainers
- Pilot: Gender and Peacebuilding
- Strategic Economic Needs and Security Exercise (SENSE)
Fall 2012
September 2012
- Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience (STAR)
October 2012
- Governance and Democratic Practices in War-to-Peace Transitions
- The Two Sudans: Managing Ongoing Conflict
- Land, Property, and Conflict
- Civil Resistance and the Dynamics of Nonviolent Conflict
- Mediating Violent Conflict
- Stabilization and Peacebuilding: Understanding Dynamic Processes and Making Them Work
- Facilitation in Conflict Environments
- Strategic Economic Needs and Security Exercise (SENSE)
- Social Reconstruction and Human Security
- Islamic Law
November 2012
- Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law
- Security Sector Reform
- Supporting Police Reform: Capacity Building for Advisers and Trainers
December 2012
- Navigating the Interagency Process
- Rule of Law Practitioners Course
- Preventing Electoral Violence in Africa: Tools for Policymakers
Online Courses
The following introductory courses are available online.
- Conflict Analysis (also available in Arabic, Farsi, and Spanish)
- Interfaith Conflict Resolution (also available in Arabic)
- Negotiation and Conflict Management
- Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)

