Courses

While peace agreements are difficult to attain, their implementation often proves even more challenging in the quest for the desired end state.  This course gives participants a comprehensive perspective that seeks to reconcile peace talks and implementation processes. This course includes lessons on getting parties to the table, addressing paradoxes, dilemmas, asymmetries, and ambiguities inherent in peace processes. Participants will explore related concepts and phenomena such as diasporas, spoilers, gender inclusion, ritual transformation, power and numerous negotiation issues.

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.

SENSE is a computer-facilitated simulation that focuses on negotiations and decision-making, including resource-allocation challenges and cross-sectoral coordination, for the full range of national and international actors. July 7-9, USIP, in partnership with George Mason University (GMU) and the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA), will conduct the Strategic Economic Needs and Security Exercise (SENSE) simulation at USIP headquarters in Washington D.C.