In the Field
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September 2009
USIP's Maria Jessop-Mandel writes about the Institute's recent human rights workshop, "Putting Human Rights Values into Action," for Iraqi professors held in Beirut, Lebanon. The program explored three human rights-related themes specific to the Iraqi context -- children’s rights, women's equality and academic freedom -- and ways these professors could more effectively teach human rights in their classrooms, and ultimately learn from each other's experiences. Countries: Iraq
| Issue Areas: Education, Human Rights, Religion, Women, Youth
| Programs: Education and Training Center, Education and Training Center/International
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June 2009
The process of drafting and passing new “people friendly” criminal laws is a difficult one but it is certainly not impossible. USIP's Vivienne O'Connor visited Haiti recently to help work with the national actors engaged in the reform process by sharing with lawmakers a law reform tool –- the “Model Codes for Post-Conflict Criminal Justice” book -- that we developed in cooperation with the Irish Centre for Human Rights, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights and the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime. |
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June 2009
A scandal involving murder allegations against the president and escalating violence from drug trafficking threaten Guatemala’s stability. Former USIP grantee Anita Isaacs recently traveled to the Central American country, where she witnessed massive demonstrations that exposed the fragility of Guatemala’s democracy. Countries: Guatemala, North America
| Issue Areas: Governance, Human Rights, Terrorism and Political Extremism
| Programs: Grant Program, Grants & Fellowships
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May 2009
USIP peace scholar Benjamin Schonthal provides a first person account of the excitement at the end of Sri Lanka's 30-year civil war. And, he also reminds us that the hard work of peace is just beginning. Countries: Sri Lanka
| Issue Areas: Conflict Analysis, Conflict Management and Resolution, Governance, Human Rights, Humanitarian Efforts, Identity, Ethnicity, and Culture, Negotiation and Diplomacy, Political Systems and International Relations, Religion, Terrorism and Political Extremism
| Programs: Grants & Fellowships, Jennings Randolph Peace Scholarship Dissertation Program
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May 2008
ETC/I conducted a three day training program on 2-4 May 2008 in Erbil on collaborative problem solving and reconciliation for 33 officials involved in Iraqi reconciliation and human rights. Specifically, the participants represented a number of key institutions: the Iraqi Ministry of Human Rights (MoHR), as well as its Kurdish counterpart; the Parliament's Committee on Reconciliation (CoR), including both its Human Rights Committee and its Na-tional Reconciliation Committee; the Implementation and Follow-Up Committee for National Reconciliation (IFCNR) from the Office of the Prime Minister; and the Human Rights unit within Baghdad University. Countries: Iraq
| Issue Areas: Capacity Building, Governance, Human Rights, Post-Conflict Activities, Training
| Programs: Education and Training Center/International
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