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Senior Program Officer, Academy for International Conflict Management and Peacebuilding
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Countries: Iraq
Maria Jessop is a senior program officer in the Institute’s Academy for International Conflict Management and Peacebuilding where she develops and implements education and training programs in conflict resolution, intergroup dialogue, peacebuilding, human rights and civic education primarily for Iraqi educators, civil society leaders, and government officials. Jessop’s work at the Institute has also included training peacekeepers in Rwanda and Senegal in negotiation, training educators in Afghanistan on teaching peacebuilding, and providing advanced mediation skills training to OSCE mission personnel in Kosovo.
Before coming to USIP, Jessop contracted as a mediator, trainer, and cross-cultural specialist with federal, educational and community-based organizations in New York, Los Angeles, Puerto Rico, and Costa Rica. From 2005-07, she managed the office of the Mohammed Said Farsi Chair of Islamic Peace at American University. Also while at American, Jessop founded and led The Dialogue Development Group which engages the university community in facilitated intergroup dialogues on topics related to social identities, differences and inequalities.
Maria Jessop was raised internationally and served in the Peace Corps in St. Lucia (1994-96). She holds a B.A. in Psychology from Fairleigh Dickinson University and an M.A. in International Peace and Conflict Resolution from American University.
Publications:
• “The Ripe Moment for Civil Society” (co-author) International Negotiation: A Journal of Theory and Practice (2008).
• “Dialogue Education at American University” (co-author) Voices in Dialogue (2007).
Developing Peace and Human Rights Educators in Iraq.
In the Field, September, 2009.
Publications & Tools
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USIP’s Maria Jessop and Ayse Kadayifci-Orellana discuss the power of dialogue to bridge divides and the role of women peacemakers in Iraq in the context of a workshop for the women of USIP’s Network of Iraqi Facilitators (NIF) they conducted in May 2011. Countries: Iraq
| Issue Areas: Gender and Peacebuilding, Mediation and Facilitation, Post-Conflict and Peacekeeping Activities
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Events
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March 9, 2010
Despite the challenges facing the next generation of Iraqis, many Iraqi youth are generally positive about their futures. This event will consider some of the ways these young people are contributing to their communities, with a particular focus on USIP's work with Iraqi youth and partners in education, media and civil society sectors. Countries: Iraq
| Issue Areas: Education, Media, Conflict, and Peacebuilding, Science, Technology, and Peacebuilding, Youth and Peacebuilding
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