- Framework for Success: Fragile States and Societies Emerging from Conflict
This strategic framework is crafted to be useful to (and ideally shared by) all the actors involved in post-conflict stability and state-building operations (i.e., military, government, NGO, IGO, private sector, and host nation leaders). It is organized around end states the ultimate goals of societies emerging from conflict. It also includes critical leadership responsibilities that are crucial to mission success. This framework is most valuable in planning and organizing operations, but it also has great value as an underlying structure from which training and education programs, monitoring efforts, and coordination mechanisms can cascade. It also has value as an organizing framework for cataloging documents, resources, and effective practices.
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- The Oral History Library (Iraq, Afghanistan)
This extensive collection of interviews of people just back from deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan is a valuable resource for individuals studying the U.S. experience in those conflicts, as well as the broader questions of how to conduct stability operations. The Iraq interviews (conducted between July and November, 2004) include 14 Americans who worked on governance, 10 who worked on security, and 13 who worked on reconstruction. The Afghanistan interviews (conducted between October 2004 and September 2005) focus on people deployed in PRTs, and include 36 U.S. government civilians, 12 military officers, and 4 people working for international or non-governmental organizations.
- Reconstruction and Stabilization Series (Filling the Gaps)
USIP's Filling the Gaps series examines essential areas of post-conflict reconstruction and stabilization where performance has been weak, including transitional governance, natural resources, mass media, economic development, and the role of women. For each of these sectors, top practitioners and experts identified best practices and policy options for those who conduct these complex missions.
- Forensic Training for Human Rights and Humanitarian Investigations
Physicians for Human Rights, with support from USIP, developed this web-based distance-learning course in the forensic sciences. It targets a wide audience, from less experienced volunteer human rights investigators to expert international professionals. In addition to collecting physical evidence, the course also covers working with families and communities affected by violence. Regular 'quizzes' and exercises encourage trainees to reflect on the material that they have been exposed to and help ensure the learning objectives are met.
- Trauma Healing and Peace Education: A Manual for Lay Counselors and Their Trainers
This resource, created by OIC International with USIP's support, is a one-week training curriculum for trauma counselors working with war victims, internally displaced persons, and former combatants. The curriculum addresses a range of issues, including methods for de-traumatizing those affected by violence, gender issues, the impact of drugs and alcohol on those suffering trauma, sexual violence, social and economic problems, and reconciliation, among others. The methodologies proposed are interactive, with activities woven throughout.
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