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Featured
The United States Institute of Peace announced the winners from each state and abroad of the National Peace Essay Contest. Fifty American high school students from around the U.S., and one living in South Korea, have written winning essays. Each student has won a $1,000 college scholarship and an invitation to Washington, D.C. for an all-expense paid, five-day seminar in June.
Program Specialists
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Vice President for Domestic Programs, Education and Training Center
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Program Officer, Education and Training Center/International
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Leadership
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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.
Upcoming Courses
June 29, 2009 - July 1, 2009
Cultural Adaptability in Complex Operations
Diplomats, military officers, and NGOs alike frequently cite lack of cultural awareness as a primary obstacle to success. This course emphasizes that it is equally as necessary to understand the implicit assumptions and cues behind one’s own culture before it is possible to become truly aware of, or sensitive to, other cultures.
June 29, 2009 - July 2, 2009
This course provides a thorough conceptual framework to help practitioners structure their efforts in negotiation, with theoretical and practical investigations of: negotiation analysis and planning; negotiating styles; "hard-bargaining" versus problem-solving approaches; interest versus positions; building relationships for negotiation; value distribution versus value creation; development and use of leverage; cross-cultural negotiations; negotiating with the hard cases; and other considerations necessary to successful negotiation.
July 13, 2009 - July 16, 2009
Peace Processes: Planning for Implementation
This highly interactive course seeks to enhance the understanding of peace processes from identifying strategies based on sound analysis to the negotiation of agreements that can be implemented.
September 15, 2009 - October 29, 2009
This course is designed to provide an in-depth and multi-disciplinary perspective on civilian-based movements and campaigns in defending and obtaining basic rights and justice around the world, and in transforming the global security environment.
Recent Activities
Strategies for Peace, Global Sustainability & Conflict Transformation: Teaching Peace Across Disciplines
April 3, 2009 | Central Connecticut State University (New Britain, CT)
USIP sponsored a faculty seminar titled "Strategies for Peace, Global Sustainability & Conflict Transformation: Teaching Peace Across Disciplines" with the Hartford Consortium for Peace Education, World Affairs Council, Pax Educare, Central Connecticut State University, University of Hartford, and St. Joseph College on April 3, 2009.
See a full list of recent activities and workshops