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Training Community Leaders in Haiti

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USIP expert Maria Jessop trains community leaders in Haiti to reduce electoral violence (USIP Photo/Liz Panarelli)

Partners

National Democratic Institute

Digital Democracy

Institut Haitien de la Paix

USIP works with community leaders in Haiti to enhance their ability to resolve conflict nonviolently. 

 

 

Since 2008, USIP’s Haiti program and Academy for International Conflict Management and Peacebuilding have conducted training workshops in Haiti.

Haiti training on justice and security dialogues and reducing electoral violence.“The workshop was very satisfying, a great learning experience; the work and learning was purely practical.” ~Training participant, Cap Haitien
 
The current training program, conducted in partnership with the National Democratic Institute, focuses on facilitating community dialogues on justice and security. Our September, 2010, workshop in Cap Haitien focused on developing a Code of Conduct to reduce electoral violence.

USIP has also supported trainings conducted by Digital Democracy with grassroots women’s organizations. These trainings focused on empowering women to use technology to increase their participation in politics and to report threats to security in their communities and camps.
 
In 2008 and 2009, in partnership with the Institut Haitien de la Paix (Haitian Institute of Peace), USIP conducted trainings on conflict resolution, conflict-sensitive development programming, and transitional justice.