Nina Sughrue

Senior Program Officer, Academy for International Conflict Management and Peacebuilding

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Contact

Phone: (202) 429-7166

E-mail: nsughrue@usip.org

Languages: Arabic

Countries: India, Pakistan

Nina Sughrue is a senior program officer in the Institute's Academy for International Conflict Management and Peacebuilding. She coordinates training programs that help government officials, military and police personnel, representatives from various international organizations and non-governmental employees improve their conflict management skills. She has conducted training in Afghanistan, Colombia, Egypt, Jordan, India, Iraq, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Poland, Sudan and Turkey and with Israelis and Palestinians.

Prior to joining the Institute, Sughrue worked for eight years in various positions in U.S. government agencies, where she focused on the Middle East and South Asia and was posted to several American embassies in South Asia. Sughrue also spent two years in the State Department Foreign Language School studying Arabic. Sughrue has traveled and worked all over the globe.

She received a B.A. in political science with a focus on international relations from Boston University and an M.A. in international policy from the Elliott School of International Affairs at The George Washington University.

Publications & Tools

(USIP)
December 2011

USIP trained hundreds of African peacekeepers in seven nations this year in how to negotiate and mediate the peace.

April 2011 | News Feature by Thomas Omestad

With Pakistan’s internal troubles and cross-border issues with Afghanistan key factors in the security outlook for all of South Asia and the United States, the U.S. Institute of Peace has brought its concept of building a network of facilitators to the country

Countries: Asia, Pakistan | Issue Areas: Mediation and Facilitation, Training
August 2008
Countries: Iraq | Issue Areas: Training