Programs

	Building Local Conflict Management Capacity in the “Three Areas” In the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, signed in January of 2005, the contentious "Three Areas" of Sudan—Abyei, Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile—were set aside for special treatment. To help prepare the citizens of the Three Areas for these new processes, USIP conducts capacity-building workshops to help manage and prevent violent conflict.
	Center for Mediation and Conflict Resolution USIP experts work on active conflicts, supporting training and education, developing tools for practitioners and identifying best practices for ending violence.
	Center for Sustainable Economies
	Centers of Innovation USIP identifies and applies best practices in seven topical areas whose issues cross each phase of conflict through this series of Centers. Centers of Innovation: Center for Gender and Peacebuilding, Center for Sustainable Economies, Media, Conflict and Peacebuilding, Religion and Peacemaking, Rule of Law, Science, Technology and Peacebuilding, Security Sector Governance Center
	Customary Law and Criminal Justice in South Sudan Over 60 tribal, non-state systems of justice operate in South Sudan, alongside a struggling state legal system. Rule of Law is working with tribal chiefs, state judges, police and other stakeholders to map the law applied in each, improve cooperation between them, and develop an integrated approach to justice.
	Darfur Disapora Consultation 2010 USIP is actively working with the Darfurian Diaspora to discuss issues related to the conflct situation in Darfur. In January 2010 USIP convened Darfurians from the North-America-based Diaspora, one representative from the European Diaspora, and another from Cairo, for a two-day consultation focused on the role of civil society in any peace process, the role of external actors, and the next steps in moving the peace process forward.
	EVP Phase I: North/South Workshops USIP conducted a series of electoral violence prevention workshops throughout north and south Sudan in 2009 with participants who represent key institutions that play a critical role in electoral processes. These workshops combined case studies of electoral violence with capacity building in conflict resolution and citizenship skills.
	EVP Phase II: Training of Trainers Workshops After a series of programs on electoral violence prevention throughout Sudan, USIP’s team of trainers worked to develop a north/south network of Sudanese trainers to spread the program content as widely as possible in the short time before Sudan’s elections and referendum.
	Lessons Learned USIP's Lessons Learned program captures the experiences of US military and civilian officials returning from work in Sudan, Iraq, and Afghanistan.
	Popular Consultation in Sudan USIP is working with state officials, political leaders and civil society members from Blue Nile and Southern Kordofan states to design and conduct popular consultation - a CPA-mandated process whereby the two states will seek to renegotiate political, administrative, and constitutional arrangements with the central government.