Thursday, May 9, 2024
In the Field: Iran
Senior Fellow Barbara Slavin has been senior diplomatic reporter for USA Today since 1996. Now on her seventh trip to Iran, Slavin interviewed veteran political figure and newly elected member of parliament, Ali Larijani.
Promoting Rule of Law in Liberia
To assist Liberia's recovery after a 14 year civil war, USIP has led an unique program based on both formal institutions and local practices of justice.
Addressing Property Rights for Displaced Iraqis
Approximately 20 percent of Iraqis are displaced and not sure how to reclaim their property when they return home. In Jordan, USIP and the World Bank recently convened a workshop for displaced Iraqis to address this issue.
In the Field: Building Local Conflict Resolution Capacity in Afghanistan
Senior Program Officers Keith Bowen and Nina Sughrue, in conjunction with a local partner, recently conducted a training workshop in conflict resolution in Kabul for 34 Afghans from across the NGO spectrum. The objective was to synthesize traditional Afghan and USIP-based methods of conflict resolution.
In the Field: Niger
USIP conducted a conflict resolution workshop on behalf of the US Embassy in Niger. The Nigerien High Commissioner for the Restoration of Peace had approached the US Embassy to conduct the workshop for leaders with influence in Nigerien society. USIP trainers Jacqueline Wilson and Nina Sughrue conducted a three-day workshop in mid-October in the remote corner of Niger's Park W national park near their borders with Burkina Faso and Benin for 25 representatives of parliament and ministries, as ...
Training Pakistani Parliamentarians in Conflict Resolution
USIP, at the request of the Pakistani Institute of Legislative Development And Transparency (PILDAT), held a series of workshops for women parliamentarians and politicians on "Conflict Management and Negotiation Styles" recently in Islamabad and Karachi.
Religious Peacemaking and Interfaith Dialogue Workshop for Iraqi Religious Leaders
From March 31st to April 4th 2009, USIP’s Religion and Peacemaking program, working in partnership with the Council of Representatives’ Religious Affairs Committee, brought together twenty-five religious leaders, civil society activists, and academics from throughout Iraq to discuss religious violence in conflict and how to leverage religious resources in peacemaking. The participants were representative of Iraq’s pluralistic society: hailing from all eighteen provinces, they included both Sh...
Network of Afghan Facilitators: Resolving Conflict Province by Province
In provinces suffering from crushing poverty, low literacy, widespread corruption, and broad cultural divides, USIP’s Network of Afghan Facilitators (NAF) is showing significant progress in preventing violence and mediating tribal and community-level conflicts, mending cleavages that if allowed to fester become ripe for exploitation by the Taliban, warlords, and other anti-governmental forces.
Iraq's Education Sector: Building the Future on Common Ground
As a critical component to its peacebuilding efforts in Iraq, USIP recently convened a workshop for senior Iraqi education officials at the request of the Iraqi Parliament. The delegation brought together senior education officials, including representatives from the Ministries of Education and Higher Education from both the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and the Government of Iraq (GoI), as well as the Prime Minister's Education Advisory, Baghdad University, and the Baghdad Provincial C...
Follow-up: "Building Bridges of Cooperation in Addressing Common Challenges in the Iraqi Education System" Workshop
Field update from Program Officer, Maria Jessop.