Education and Training Center/Domestic

Program Specialists

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Program Officer, Education and Training Center/Domestic
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Program Officer, Education and Training Center/International

Leadership

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Vice President for Domestic Programs, Education and Training Center

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

 
September 14, 2009 - September 18, 2009
 
A 'hands on' course that provides students with a framework for organizing and implementing post-conflict peace and stability operations based upon the end-states that should be achieved. Will focus on the critical issues that confront post-conflict interventions in achieving each end state and the overarching leadership responsibilities involved in these objectives.
 
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

Exploring Global Peacebuilding: Providing Teachers with Strategies to Engage Students

June 29-30, 2009 | Baker College (Auburn Hills, MI)

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USIP sponsored a teacher education program at Baker College in Auburn Hills, MI titled "Exploring Global Peacebuilding: Providing Teachers with Strategies to Engage Students" June 29-30, 2009.   The Institute worked with the Education Program at Baker to develop an event that focused  on approaches to teaching about peace in the secondary classroom.

See a full list of recent activities and workshops