PrintAlison Milofsky
Senior Program Officer, Academy for International Conflict Management and Peacebuilding
Alison Milofsky is a Senior Program Officer in the Education and Training Center/Domestic where she focuses on secondary education. Milofsky facilitates workshops for educators domestically and internationally to assist them in integrating peace education, particularly social justice principles, into their classrooms. Most recently she has worked with educators from Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Central Asia, South Asia and South Africa.
Before joining USIP, Milofsky was associate director of the Anti-Defamation League in Washington, D.C., regional office, where she designed and implemented anti-bias education programs at the secondary level and trained law enforcement personnel on hate crimes and extremism.
Previously, she was a teacher trainer in the Slovak Republic while in the Peace Corps and taught English as a Second Language at the University of Maryland and Georgetown University.
Milofsky holds a B.A. from McGill University and a Ph.D. in education policy from the University of Maryland.
Publications & Tools
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The Peacebuilding Toolkit for Educators was shared with a group of teachers from across the U.S. during a lively program at USIP headquarters, intended to give educators a primer on peacebuilding with the hope that they will carry those lessons back to the classroom. Issue Areas: Education, Training, Youth and Peacebuilding
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Money spent on peace is an “investment” that will eventually “mature,” said Congressman John Garamendi (D-CA) at the U.S. Institute of Peace on Oct. 27, bringing both short- and long-term gains to the United States and countries around the world. Garamendi, who served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Ethiopia from 1966 to 1968, offered his remarks at a USIP event marking the 50th anniversary of the Peace Corps’ founding. Countries: Afghanistan, Africa, Guinea, Iraq, Kenya, Liberia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Uganda
| Issue Areas: Education, Post-Conflict and Peacekeeping Activities, Training
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To honor this worldwide event, USIP presents some highlights of peacebuilding around the world in 2011. |
Events
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October 27, 2011
The United States Institute of Peace and the Peace Corps partnered to commemorate the Peace Corps’ 50th anniversary with this panel discussion on post-conflict environments and the requirements for preparing and protecting volunteers who serve in them. Countries: Afghanistan, Guinea, Iraq, Kenya, Liberia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Uganda
| Issue Areas: Education, Post-Conflict and Peacekeeping Activities, Training
| Programs: Academy for International Conflict Management and Peacebuilding
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