In the Field
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September 2010
Skip Cole, Annie Davies, and Jeff Krentel of the Academy, in partnership with Aspiration, Partners for Democratic Change, and Positive Relating, held the inaugural OSPCON1 simulation authoring event September 24-26, 2010. The purpose of the event was to help move written USIP simulation materials into the Open Simulation Platform (OSP) to be used more broadly in Academy courses and to build and enhance the community of OSP users. Countries: United States
| Issue Areas: Education, Mediation and Facilitation, Science, Technology, and Peacebuilding, Training
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August 2010
USIP's Open Simulation Platform (OSP) is continuing to make inroads with new audiences around the country as it expands and is increasingly utilized as a premier peacebuilding teaching tool. One of the main goals of this project is to provide teachers with a platform to create dynamic teaching methods for their students at any level; high school, undergraduate, graduate, or professional. Countries: United States
| Issue Areas: Mediation and Facilitation, Science, Technology, and Peacebuilding, Training, Youth and Peacebuilding
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June 2010
USIP’s Open Simulation Platform (OSP) expanded into new territory in April 2010 to a George Washington University undergraduate class titled Theory and Practice of Peacebuilding. Twenty students from the class participated in a two-day Afghan reintegration simulation led by Senior Program Officer Ronald ‘Skip’ Cole and GWU Professor Tarek Maassarani. Countries: United States
| Issue Areas: Education, Science, Technology, and Peacebuilding, Training
| Programs: Workshops and Training in Zones of Conflict
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