In the Field
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December 2011
As United States troops withdraw from Iraq in December of 2011, USIP looks back at its actions on the ground in Iraq and ahead at its programs for 2012 and beyond. Countries: Iraq
| Issue Areas: Conflict Analysis and Prevention, Education, Gender and Peacebuilding, Media, Conflict, and Peacebuilding, Mediation and Facilitation, Negotiation and Diplomacy, Political Reform, Post-Conflict and Peacekeeping Activities, Religion and Peacemaking, Rule of Law, Science, Technology, and Peacebuilding, Security Sector Reform/Governance, Training
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November 2011
USIP's Virginia M. Bouvier reflects on her 2011 visit to Colombia's City of Women, a settlement for people displaced by violence. Countries: Colombia
| Issue Areas: Gender and Peacebuilding, Human Rights, Mediation and Facilitation, Post-Conflict and Peacekeeping Activities
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November 2011
Manal Omar, director of Iran, Iraq and North Africa programs at the U.S. Institute of Peace, testified before the Senate Foreign Relations committee on November 2, 2011, on the role of women in the Arab Spring, and more specifically, their role in Libya. |
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July 2010
United States Institute of Peace experts on Sudan Jacqueline H. Wilson and Nina Sughrue joined the Boston-based My Sister’s Keeper, in conducting a workshop for women on peacebuilding and stability July 25-30 in the city of Juba, southern Sudan. Countries: South Sudan, Sudan, The Two Sudans
| Issue Areas: Gender and Peacebuilding
| Programs: Workshops and Training in Zones of Conflict
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March 2010
Notes from the field from Virginia M. Bouvier's recent trip to Bogota, Colombia on International Women’s Day. |
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February 2010
Eleven years ago, Kosovo was a war zone on the world’s front pages, an ethnic and nationalistic cauldron in which both national and international laws seemed an utter irrelevance. When the guns at last fell silent, Colette Rausch worked for several years in Kosovo as part of the international community’s attempt to construct the rule of law amid the rubble. Last fall, she returned to find out whether, from the perspective of the people of Kosovo, the international community's efforts had been invaluable or in vain. Countries: Kosovo
| Issue Areas: Gender and Peacebuilding, Post-Conflict and Peacekeeping Activities, Rule of Law, Youth and Peacebuilding
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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, Gender and Peacebuilding, Religion and Peacemaking, Youth and Peacebuilding
| Programs: Academy for International Conflict Management and Peacebuilding, Workshops and Training in Zones of Conflict
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May 2008
Nina Sughrue and Linda Bishai of the Education and Training Center/International conducted a workshop in Islamabad for Pakistani women leaders on negotiation and problem solving, in conjunction with local think tank the Sustainable Development and Policy Institute (SDPI), May 20-22, 2008. The women hailed from Islamabad, Lahore, Peshawar, and Quetta, and were from a wide range of backgrounds - NGOs, academia, and private sector. Countries: Pakistan
| Issue Areas: Gender and Peacebuilding, Training
| Programs: Workshops and Training in Zones of Conflict
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March 2008
Ted Feifer and Nina Sughrue led this program for businesswomen in Central Asia held in Bukhara, Uzbekistan, March 4-6, 2008. This was the seventh workshop we have held in Central Asia since 2002, and our fifth partnership with the Businesswomen’s Association of Uzbekistan (BWA). Countries: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan
| Issue Areas: Economics and Conflict, Gender and Peacebuilding, Training
| Programs: Workshops and Training in Zones of Conflict
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October 2007
Nina Sughrue and Linda Bishai of the Education and Training Center International conducted a three-day workshop in Islamabad for Pakistani women leaders on negotiation and problem solving, in conjunction with local think tank the Sustainable Development and Policy Institute (SDPI) October 23-25, 2007. Countries: Pakistan
| Issue Areas: Gender and Peacebuilding, Training
| Programs: Workshops and Training in Zones of Conflict
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