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Reflecting the Institute's commitment to utilizing cost-effective approaches to empower others with knowledge, skills, and resources that promote the peaceful resolution of conflict, USIP supports U.S. and Pakistani nonprofit organizations producing media geared toward women and youth, countering extremist messaging. Countries: Pakistan
| Issue Areas: Conflict Analysis and Prevention, Gender and Peacebuilding, Media, Conflict, and Peacebuilding, Training, Youth and Peacebuilding
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The Chicago summit dealt with a host of international and organizational issues, but the Afghan mission certainly topped the agenda. Countries: Afghanistan
| Issue Areas: Media, Conflict, and Peacebuilding, Political Reform, Rule of Law
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USIP supports the Kabul-based Afghan Education Production Organization, or AEPO, which makes the popular BBC radio drama “New Home, New Life,” as well as other radio shows that feature a spectrum of problem-solving skills for Afghans. Countries: Afghanistan
| Issue Areas: Conflict Analysis and Prevention, Media, Conflict, and Peacebuilding, Post-Conflict and Peacekeeping Activities
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A Facebook page created for the killing of Egyptian teen Khaled Said that originally helped to crystallize the sentiment of the opposition is now being used as a platform to incite violence, showing how social media can be used not only to prevent violence, but to stoke it as well. Countries: Egypt
| Issue Areas: Conflict Analysis and Prevention, Media, Conflict, and Peacebuilding
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The U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) on May 9 convened experts to examine a key issue in strategically vital Pakistan: countering radicalization and violent extremism. Countries: Pakistan
| Issue Areas: Conflict Analysis and Prevention, Media, Conflict, and Peacebuilding, Youth and Peacebuilding
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In recent years the counterterrorism field has increasingly defined its work as countering violent extremism (CVE), described by Daniel Benjamin, coordinator of the State Department's Office of Counterterrorism as efforts "to stop those most at risk of radicalization from becoming terrorists" by providing the means to undercut the ideological and rhetorical narratives which drive violent extremism. Identifying these means for the Pakistani context is one of the core goals of USIP's Pakistan program as it strives to support innovative ideas and new approaches to inform and catalyze larger efforts to counter violent extremism and manage conflict. Countries: Pakistan
| Issue Areas: Conflict Analysis and Prevention, Media, Conflict, and Peacebuilding
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This issue of PeaceWatch highlights how USIP is strengthening civ-mil cooperation for peace operations around the world, building government capacity in conflict zones, and USIP President Richard Solomon’s lasting impact on the field of peacebuilding. |
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The major attacks in Kabul this week have renewed questions on how well the country can deal with such challenges and also meet civilian needs ahead of the security transition in 2014. |
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In an effort to strengthen peacebuilding skills inside of volatile but strategically important Pakistan, the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) will conduct an unusual training workshop on mediation, conflict resolution and conflict-prevention skills for 20 senior religious leaders from Pakistan in June. |
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At the Indiana Regional Training Institute known as Camp Atterbury, civilians train for deployment to Afghanistan to work in defense and interior ministries. Part of that training is conducted by the United States Institute of Peace, which has its own training Academy for conflict management and works with the Pentagon through the Ministry of Defense Advisers (MoDA) Training Program, which provides Department of Defense (DoD) civilian experts with tools and approaches for effective mentoring and capacity building. |