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  • February 22, 2010   |   Course
    Engaging With Identity-Based Differences

    Outlines strategies and distinctive challenges for third-party mediators and other advisors, including countering hate speech and exclusionary policies, engaging religious and tribal leaders, establishing trust through intergroup dialogues, and other measures. Recommended for practitioners whose peacebuilding work requires them to work with religious, ethnic, tribal and minority groups.

  • February 17, 2010   |   Event
    Countdown to Copper in Afghanistan:

    Copper deposits worth over $50 billion in Afghanistan’s Aynak valley could either present an opportunity for economic sustainability and political stability or become the focus of violent competition and grand corruption. Panelists discussed the steps necessary to ensure that the copper industry benefits local communities and promotes peace in Afghanistan; how the Afghan business sector could prepare to be fully integrated in the copper value chain and the role for external parties, like the United States, to help the Afghan government and community-based organizations to build capacity that would improve coordination and effectiveness.

  • February 8, 2010   |   Course
    Social Reconstruction and Human Security

    This course explores challenges and opportunities for successful humanitarian assistance and longer-term needs for social well-being and development in fragile states. Drawing upon case studies of peace operations and peacebuilding efforts, students analyze the links between social well-being—particularly public health, education, environmental protection and refugee needs—and security, governance, rule of law and economic development as well as explore the relationship between reconciliation and social well-being.

  • January 25, 2010   |   Course
    Introduction to Post-Conflict Strategies and Operations

    A 'hands on' course that provides students with a guiding principles for organizing and implementing post-conflict and stability operations based upon desired end-states commonly accpeted by the peacebuilding community. The course will focus on the critical issues that confront post-conflict interventions and the overarching leadership challenges involved in manthese objectives.

  • January 11, 2010   |   Resource
    Prospects for Haiti’s New Government

    As the impoverished country prepares for presidential and parliamentary elections, a new USIP report examines how to best ensure Haiti can continue its progress and development amid political transition.

  • January 11, 2010   |   Course
    Economics and Conflict

    Participants explore the analytical links between economic activity and conflict as well as the practical constraints and rewards of using economic instruments of conflict management. Case studies and simulations set in Kosovo, Haiti, and Sudan encourage participants to formulate economic instruments within a strategic framework for economic development in vulnerable and conflict-affected states.

  • December 16, 2009   |   In the Field
    USIP Trains the Youth Members of Pakistan’s Political Parties and the Pakistani Youth Parliament to Resolve Conflicts Peacefully

    On December 16th, at the request of the Pakistani Institute of Legislative Development and Transparency (PILDAT), ETC/I Senior Program Officer Nina Sughrue conducted a one-day conflict management session for 18 Pakistani parliamentarians, eight members of the parliamentary staff, 17 representatives of the political parties’ youth wings, nine members of the youth parliament, 10 members of the press, and six politically active civil society leaders in Islamabad. 

  • December 15, 2009   |   Event
    Local Ownership of Security Sector Reform

    Local ownership is essential for successful security sector reform (SSR), but donor countries often determine priorities and programs. What practical steps can policymakers and practitioners take to encourage local ownership of reform efforts? 

  • December 13, 2009   |   In the Field
    Building Local Conflict Resolution Capacity in Pakistan’s North-West Frontier Province and Federally Administered Tribal Areas

    ETC/I Senior Program Officers Nina Sughrue and Linda Bishai, in conjunction with local partner the Sustainable Peace and Development Organization (SPADO), conducted the second training of trainers (TOT) workshop in conflict analysis and resolution in Islamabad on December 13-15, 2009.

  • December 9, 2009   |   In the Field
    Mediation Training for the OSCE Mission in Kosovo

    Ted Feifer and Maria Jessop led a workshop focused on mediation for 23 international and national staff members of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) Mission in Kosovo, in Pristina, September 9-11, 2009.

  • December 9, 2009   |   In the Field
    Senior Development Seminar: Defense Institute of International Legal Studies

    Ted Feifer led a seminar at the Defense Institute of International Legal Studies (DIILS) in Newport, Rhode Island for twenty-three military officers and civilian government officials from seventeen countries, October 29-30, 2009.

  • December 9, 2009   |   Event
    Is Constitutional Reform in Bosnia a Good Idea?

    Is constitutional reform in Bosnia needed, and if so how urgently? Will the EU accession process provide the necessary incentives to make it happen? What more is needed? A panel of experts will address these questions.

  • October 29, 2009   |   Event
    The Congressional Role in Military and Police Reform

    In Afghanistan and Iraq, Congress provides oversight and resources for U.S. programs to reform local military and police forces. This process is critical to U.S. success, but is little understood. USIP's Security Sector Reform Working Group examined the role of Congress in ensuring that security assistance is effective, serves U.S interests and creates democratic security forces.

  • October 27, 2009   |   Event
    Afghanistan in 2009: A Survey of the Afghan People

    The Asia Foundation will release findings from its fifth public opinion poll, "Afghanistan in 2009: A Survey of the Afghan People," the most comprehensive survey conducted in all 34 of Afghanistan’s provinces.

  • October 23, 2009   |   Resource
    Afghanistan and Iraq: Perspectives on U.S. Strategy

    USIP’s Beth Cole presents ideas for military and civilian cooperation to increase security and stability in Afghanistan and Iraq to a House Armed Services subcommittee.