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Online Courses

Onsite Courses

Program Specialists

	Linda Bishai Senior Program Officer, Education and Training Center/International
	Nadia Gerspacher Program Officer, Education and Training Center/Domestic

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Leadership

	Pamela Aall Vice President for Domestic Programs, Education and Training Center
	Michael Lekson Vice President for International Programs, Education and Training Center/International

USIP works domestically and internationally to:

Create and deliver courses and supporting teaching materials to improve the practice of conflict management and help professionalize the
field.
Help international practitioners improve the skills required to manage conflict in all its phases, from prevention to post-conflict peacebuilding
Promote peace by working through educational systems in fragile states and societies emerging from conflict.

Mission
One of the Institute's congressional mandates is to "serve the people and the government through the widest possible range of education and training...to promote international peace and the resolution of conflicts..." The Education and Training Center's mission is to help fulfill this mandate.

Pamela Aall is the vice president for the Education and Training Center's Domestic programs and Michael Lekson is the vice president for the Education and Training Center's International programs.

International & Domestic Programs

Education and Training Center/Domestic
The mission of the ETC/Domestic is to create and deliver courses and supporting teaching materials to improve the practice of conflict management and help professionalize the field. Target audiences include civilian and military practitioners; faculty from other institutions; and graduate, undergraduate and high school students.

Education and Training Center/International
The mission of ETC/International is to (1) help international practitioners improve the skills required to manage conflict in all its phases, from prevention to post-conflict peacebuilding; and (2) promote peace by working through educational systems in fragile states and societies emerging from conflict.

Conflict Management Education and Training Courses 2008-2009
USIP is offering 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.