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Saudi Talk Radio (Credit: Tamara Abdul Hadi/The New York Times) (NYT Photos)
Centers of Innovation

USIP identifies and applies best practices in five topical areas whose issues cross each phase of conflict through this series of Centers.

Centers of Innovation: Gender and Peacebuilding Initiative, Media, Conflict and Peacebuilding, Religion and Peacemaking, Rule of Law, Science, Technology and Peacebuilding, Sustainable Economies
Photo of ceremony at Colombia women's ecumenical peace conference
Colombian Women's Ecumenical Peacemaking

In November 2008, USIP supported a joint-initiative of the Conferencia de Religiosos y Religiosas de Colombia, the organizing body of Catholic men’s and women’s religious orders, and Justapaz, a Menonite organization, to convene a four-day workshop outside of Bogota for Catholic and Protestant women peacemakers.  This workshop provided an opportunity for women doing peace work on the ground through their churches to share best practices, network, and conceive future joint-initiatives.
(Women gather for a Friday sermon at the Islamic Society of Bay Ridge in the Brooklyn borough of New York on Feb. 24, 2006. Courtesy: NYT)
Gender and Peacebuilding Initiative

Established in October 2009, the Gender and Peacebuilding Initiative coordinates the gender-related work of USIP. The Initiative, headed by Kathleen Kuehnast, reflects the Institute’s commitment to gender awareness in both its analytical and practitioner work on conflict and peacebuilding.
Afghan police recruits go through training (US DoD/Chad McNeeley)
Security Sector Reform Working Group

The Security Sector Reform (SSR) Working Group convenes monthly public meetings to discuss critical issues related to the reform of police and military forces and their supervising institutions in conflict-affected countries.