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2009-10 National Peace Essay Contest
USIP is proud to announce the topic for the 2009-10 National Peace Essay Contest: 'The Effectiveness of Nonviolent Civic Action.' Students will examine multiple instances where nonviolent methods have been used to foster significant social and political change and explore the successes, challenges and experiences of nonviolent movements. We must receive all application materials by February 1, 2010.
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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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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.
Academy for International Conflict Management and Peacebuilding
Upcoming Courses
November 30-December 4
This course focuses on the critical nexus between the different security mechanisms of the state, including DDR, SSR, illicit power structures, and the actors involved such as the military, the police, private security, NGOs and civil society that share a space in an intervention. Participants will learn approaches that enhance the legitimacy of a mission and facilitates the transfer of responsibility for security to the host country.
December 1-December 4
Participants will learn about and practice culturally sensitive communication; negotiation across cultures; understanding cultural differences as drivers of conflict; identifying obstacles facing organizational designs; and incorporating culture into planning. Recommended for those whose work requires interacting with local populations as well as across military and civilian sectors.
Recent Activities
Causes of War, Paths to Peace
September 11-12, 2009 | Whittier College (Whittier, CA)
On September 11-12 USIP sponsored a program with Whittier College that focused on using experiential approaches to understanding the causes of war and efforts to bring about global peace. The program was built largely on Dr. Joyce Kaufman’s efforts with the International Negotiation Project (INP) originally funded by the U.S. Institute of Peace in the late 1980s.
See a full list of recent activities and workshops