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2009-2010 National Peace Essay Contest Complete!
Thank you for all of the applications to the National Peace Essay Contest: 'The Effectiveness of Nonviolent Civic Action'! By the February 1, 2010 deadline, we received over 1200 entries! The winners of the 2009-2010 contest will be announced in May and invited to participate in the Awards Week in June. Next year's topic will be announced in April. Please check the website for details.
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Senior Program Officer, Education and Training Center/Domestic
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Senior Program Officer, Education and Training Center/Domestic
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Vice President for Domestic Programs, Education and Training Center
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The mission of the Education and Training Center, Domestic Programs is to create and deliver courses and supporting teaching materials, to improve the practice of conflict management, and to help professionalize the field. Target audiences include civilian and military practitioners, faculty from other institutions, and graduate, undergraduate and high school students.
USIP is currently developing a number of courses through which professionals from government, the military, NGOs, and IOs, as well as pre-professionals in the academic world can come together and receive training on core conflict management skills, as well as best practices in conflict prevention, peacemaking, and state-building.
Academy for International Conflict Management and Peacebuilding
Upcoming Courses
March 22-26, 2010
Whether deployed to conduct training, mentor and/or advise, professionals from any sector bring significant assets to strengthen the capacity of individuals, institutions and society as a whole in post-conflict environments. This course teaches professionals interested in strengthening capacity the ins and outs of the transfer of knowledge including adult learning principles, building rapport, developing conflict sensitivity, assessing local capacity, local ownership, sustainability, project management, training needs analysis, and curriculum design.
April 12-16, 2010
Conflict Prevention: West Africa
For professionals working in conflict zones: maximize your effectiveness by learning how to anticipate emerging threats of deadly conflict, how to halt and reverse the escalation into violence and how to build effective coalitions. Intended for all public- and private-sector professionals whose work is adversely affected by civil wars, state collapse, or other large-scale conflicts. Includes a multi-day case study on security threats in West Africa, e.g. governance challenges, sectarian and ideological strife, economic reversals, climate change and struggles over the control of natural resources.
Recent Activities
Academy Instructor Published in Great Decisions 2010 Edition
Matt Levinger's article "Enhancing Security through Peacebuilding" appeared in Great Decisions, 2010 Edition, an annual publication that serves as the basis for several hundred World Affairs Council discussion groups around the United States. The article discussed how 21st-century international security challenges will require a robust commitment to preventing, resolving, and recovering from violent conflict.
In connection with this article, Levinger was interviewed for a 30-minute PBS documentary on "Peacebuilding and Statecraft," in which USIP's Paul Hughes also appeared. Levinger will speak publicly about his essay on March 26 in St. Michaels, Maryland, and he may also lecture on this topic at the New Orleans World Affairs Council and at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville later this year.
USIP Attends the International Studies Association 2010
United States Institute of Peace staff and fellows played an active role at the International Studies Association Annual Convention this February. The convention’s theme, Theory vs. Policy: Connecting Scholars and Practitioners, perfectly complemented USIP’s long time efforts to bridge the gap between theory and practice. Vice president Pamela Aall, head of the Education and Training Center's domestic program and Academy director, chaired two panels. The first was on theory and practice in conflict resolution, and featured current and former senior fellows and grantees: William Zartman (Johns Hopkins University), William J. Long (Georgia Tech), Eileen Babbitt (Tufts University), Joyce Neu (formerly head of the UN's standby team of mediators), and Bruce Jentleson (Duke University). The second panel on regional security and conflict management capacities included contributions by Paul Williams (George Washington University), Monica Herz (Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro), and Fen Hampson (Carleton University). Chantal de Jonge Oudraat, Associate Vice President of the Jennings Randolph Fellowship Program and Abiodun Williams, Vice President of the Center for Conflict Analysis and Prevention, also participated on the panel. Other USIP staff who served as panel chairs, presenters and discussants included Education and Training Center/International's Linda Bashai and Mary Hope Schwoebel, Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow George Lopez (holder of the Hesburgh Chair in Peace Studies at the Notre Dame), and the Academy's Matt Levinger.