PrintJacqueline H. Wilson
Senior Program Officer, Academy for International Conflict Management and Peacebuilding
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Jacqueline H. Wilson is a senior program officer in the Institute’s Academy for International Conflict Management and Peacebuilding. She focuses on programming in Sudan, Iraq, and the greater Middle East and Africa as well as intermittently in other countries such as Colombia, Philippines, and Afghanistan. Wilson specializes in traditional mechanisms of conflict resolution and in applying conflict resolution skills and techniques to local problems and to building sustainable peace agreements. She led a cross-border grazing project involving southern Kordofan and northern Bahr el Ghazal in Sudan. She is writing about peace conferences and peace agreements involving communities who share livelihoods and trade across the Sudan/South Sudan border.
Wilson joined the Institute in 2004 following a 23-year active and reserve Air Force career, retiring at the rank of lieutenant colonel. From 2001 to 2003, she was the CENTCOM liaison officer to the U.S. embassy in Nairobi, supporting the defense attaché and Kenya-U.S. liaison offices. During this time, she contributed to the drafting of the Verification and Monitoring Mechanism in the Sudan Comprehensive Peace Agreement and served as an international observer for the 2002 Kenyan elections. She lived in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia from 1999 to 2001. Before living overseas, she served as a reserve faculty member of the Joint Military Intelligence Training Center at the Defense Intelligence Agency in Washington, DC. Previously, she worked as a special assistant on the Maryland governor’s staff as well as a lobbyist in Annapolis. She taught at Merced (CA) High School and earned a secondary science teaching credential at Chapman University, where she also served as an adjunct instructor.
Wilson holds a master of science degree in strategic intelligence with Middle East emphasis from the Joint Military Intelligence College and a master of arts degree in defense administration from Northern Michigan University. She is currently a doctoral candidate in Georgetown University's Liberal Studies program, studying traditional conflict resolution mechanisms and focusing on the reparation mechanism known as "diya."
Publications
- "No Transitional Justice without Transition: Darfur - A Case Study," co-authored with Brian A. Kritz, 19 Mich. St. U. Coll. L. J. Int'l L. 475 (2010-2011), pp. 475-500
- "Strawberry Ice Cream," Huffington Post, October 21, 2010
- "Day or Night?," Arab Reform Bulletin (March 2009)
- "Building Blocks for Citizenship and a Peaceful Transition in Sudan," USIPeace Briefing (March 2009)
- USIP Conflict Resolution Training in Sudan, Muslim World e-Bulletin (May 2005)
Also available on usip.org
- On the Issues: Kenya
January 10, 2008
Multimedia
- "South Sudan: A New Era of Uncertainty," Al Jazeera, July 10, 2011
Publications & Tools
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A young woman who saw her home burned to the ground as a child, and another who ended up homeless for 1 ½ years after Kenya’s election violence of 2007 and 2008, are among the youth leading a movement to end the destructive cycle. A roundtable at USIP co-sponsored with Mercy Corps explored a program aimed at strengthening the constructive force of youth in Kenya. Countries: Kenya
| Issue Areas: Political Reform, Post-Conflict and Peacekeeping Activities, Science, Technology, and Peacebuilding
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USIP’s Jacqueline Wilson discusses the recent Kenyan elections and how the country can continue to mend rifts from the 2007 violence. Countries: Kenya
| Issue Areas: Conflict Analysis and Prevention, Mediation and Facilitation, Political Reform, Post-Conflict and Peacekeeping Activities
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The March 2013 Prevention Newsletter features a Q&A with USIP President Jim Marshall on the importance of preventive action and highlights the role of regional integration as a tool for preventive action. Countries: Israel and the Palestinian Territories, Kenya, Pakistan
| Issue Areas: Conflict Analysis and Prevention, Training
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South Sudan celebrates the first anniversary of its formal independence and nationhood on July 9. Though hopes for progress remain high, the young nation is struggling on several fronts—internal security, relations with Sudan, development, rule of law and statebuilding. The specialists at the U.S. Institute of Peace who work on conflict management and peacebuilding programs in South Sudan examine the gains made and the many challenges ahead. Countries: South Sudan
| Issue Areas: Conflict Analysis and Prevention, Political Reform, Post-Conflict and Peacekeeping Activities, Rule of Law
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As South Sudan celebrates the first anniversary of its independence, USIP offers a range of resources for examining the new country's first year and for beginning to discuss its trajectory in the coming years. Countries: South Sudan, The Two Sudans
| Issue Areas: Mediation and Facilitation, Negotiation and Diplomacy, Political Reform, Post-Conflict and Peacekeeping Activities, Rule of Law
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USIP hosted a briefing for an American commander deploying to the Horn of Africa. |
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USIP’s Jon Temin and Jacki Wilson discuss the recent hostilities in Abyei, Sudan – and why it threatens the stability of the soon-to-be Republic of South Sudan and the overall region. |
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United States Institute of Peace trainers in March completed a five-day exercise in Nigeria for Nigerian Army peacekeepers who are preparing to deploy across the continent for a host of missions. Countries: Africa, Nigeria
| Issue Areas: Education, Mediation and Facilitation, Negotiation and Diplomacy, Training
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Jacqueline Wilson, USIP senior program officer, talks about south Sudan's referendum and USIP's work on the ground. Countries: Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, The Two Sudans
| Issue Areas: Mediation and Facilitation, Political Reform, Post-Conflict and Peacekeeping Activities, Rule of Law, Security Sector Reform/Governance
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Sudan’s upcoming elections in 2009 raise hopes and concerns for the country’s future. According to the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), signed in 2005 between the ruling National Congress Party (NCP) and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM), Sudan is scheduled to hold national and state level elections in 2009. Countries: South Sudan, Sudan, The Two Sudans
| Issue Areas: Conflict Analysis and Prevention, Economics and Conflict, Training
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Dorina Bekoe and Jacki Wilson discuss the renewed violence in Kenya, sparked by a flawed electoral process. Countries: Kenya
| Issue Areas: Conflict Analysis and Prevention, Mediation and Facilitation, Negotiation and Diplomacy, Youth and Peacebuilding
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Events
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May 21, 2013
To understand why and how Kenya avoided electoral violence, it is necessary to understand the underlying conditions and triggers that set off the violence five years ago, why the circumstances were different in 2013, and the impact of interventions designed to prevent new violence. Please join the U.S. Institute of Peace on May 21, 2013 for a discussion of these issues and the lessons from Kenya’s peaceful elections that may be more broadly applicable. |
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December 11, 2009
In Muslim tribal cultures, such as in Somalia and Yemen, conflicts traditionally involve tribes, clans, and extended families and are perpetuated through violent revenge, sometimes over generations. Conflict resolution traditionally consists of blood payments, with religious leaders and elders playing the role of mediators. |
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February 18, 2009
Countries: Afghanistan
| Issue Areas: Education, Gender and Peacebuilding, Youth and Peacebuilding
| Programs: Workshops and Training in Zones of Conflict, Academy for International Conflict Management and Peacebuilding
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May 24, 2005
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