In the Field

September 2005

Immediately following Afghanistan's historic September 18th parliamentary elections, Institute trainers Nina Sughrue and Jacqueline Wilson, in collaboration with Women Waging Peace and Women for Afghan Women, conducted a four-day workshop for Afghan women leaders in Kabul, Afghanistan.

May 2005

Acting Training Program Director Mike Lekson and Professional Training Officer Nina Sughrue held a seminar at the Defense Institute of International Legal Studies (DIILS) in Newport, Rhode Island for twenty-six civilian and military participants from nineteen countries.

February 2005

Ted Feifer and Jacki Wilson of the Professional Training Program conducted an advanced third-party skills workshop for the OSCE Spillover Monitor Mission to Skopje, February 7-9, 2005. Mission members play an important role in OSCE support for implementation of the 2001 Ohrid Agreement designed to end interethnic fighting in Macedonia.

August 2004

USIP has conducted the second workshop in a project aimed at fostering cooperation among Iraq´s ethnic and religious groups by training Iraqi facilitators to conduct dialogues among government and civil society leaders.

July 2004

Ted Feifer of the Professional Training Program conducted an advanced third party skills workshop for the OSCE Spillover Monitor Mission to Skopje, July 8-10, 2004. Mission members play an important role in OSCE support for implementation of the 2001 Ohrid Agreement, which largely ended interethnic fighting.

June 2004

The Institute, in partnership with the Inter-American Defense College and the Organization of American States' Unit for the Promotion of Democracy, held a seminar at Ft. McNair, Washington, DC for seventy-five senior government officials and military officers, including fifty-five students of the IADC.

May 2004

Ted Feifer of the Professional Training Program conducted a workshop for 26 Kosovo municipal officials May 26-28, 2004.

May 2004

The Institute, in partnership with the United States Department of State´s Foreign Service Institute (FSI), conducted a four-day training seminar entitled the "International Conflict Workshop (PP-519)." This was the Institute´s fifth time working with FSI on this course.

May 2004

USIP has launched the first phase of its two-year project to foster cooperation among Iraq's ethnic and religious groups by training Iraqi facilitators to conduct results-oriented dialogues among government and civil society leaders.

September 2003

In partnership with the Colombia-based "Ideas for Peace" Foundation (Fundacion "Ideas Para la Paz"), the Institute conducted a Practitioner´s Workshop in Resolving Conflict and Building Civil Society for some 40 Colombians actively engaged in addressing the challenges facing their country.