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)