Tuesday, May 14, 2024
Iraq: Baghdad's Rumor Mill
USIP's Iraq program aims to reduce interethnic and interreligious violence, speed up stabilization and democratization, and reduce the need for a U.S. presence in Iraq. As part of this program, USIP has maintained a small office in the Green Zone in Baghdad since early 2004. Rusty Barber, a former political officer in the Foreign Service, has run the office since March 2007. His regular dispatches offer a lively and sobering insider's view of the promise and peril facing U.S. efforts in that ...
In the Field: Uganda
Senior Fellow Betty Bigombe is world renowned as one of the lead negotiators in the 20-year conflict between the government of Uganda and the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebels in the north of the country. Follow her on her recent trip to northern Uganda in early 2007 as she works to urge the LRA rebels back to the negotiating table.
Iraq: Life in Baghdad
USIP's Iraq program aims to reduce interethnic and interreligious violence, speed up stabilization and democratization, and reduce the need for a U.S. presence in Iraq. As part of this program, USIP has maintained a small office in the Green Zone in Baghdad since early 2004. Rusty Barber, a former political officer in the Foreign Service, has run the office since March 2007. His regular dispatches offer a lively and sobering insider's view of the promise and peril facing U.S. efforts in that ...
Negotiation and Diplomatic Skills Training, OSCE Presence in Albania
Senior Program Officer Ted Feifer led a third workshop on negotiation and diplomatic skills for 20 international and national staff at the OSCE Presence in Albania. Participants came from the Tirana headquarters and the four project offices of Gjirokastra, Vlora, Kukes and Shkodra.
Negotiation Skills for Post-Conflict Actors
In conjunction with the Naval Postgraduate School’s (NPS) Center for Stabilization and Reconstruction Studies, Institute trainers Nina Sughrue and Jonathan Morgenstein conducted our popular, biannual course, “Negotiation Skills for Post-Conflict Actors” (also knows as "Working Effectively in Post Conflict Situations: Tools for Communication, Collaboration and Negotiation") May 21-23, 2007, in Monterey, California.
Iraq: USIP Baghdad Office Hit by Shrapnel
USIP's Iraq program aims to reduce interethnic and interreligious violence, speed up stabilization and democratization, and reduce the need for a U.S. presence in Iraq. As part of this program, USIP has maintained a small office in the Green Zone in Baghdad since early 2004. Rusty Barber, a former political officer in the Foreign Service, has run the office since March 2007. His regular dispatches offer a lively and sobering insider's view of the promise and peril facing U.S. efforts in that ...
Iraq: Violence in Baghdad Continues
USIP's Iraq program aims to reduce interethnic and interreligious violence, speed up stabilization and democratization, and reduce the need for a U.S. presence in Iraq. As part of this program, USIP has maintained a small office in the Green Zone in Baghdad since early 2004. Rusty Barber, a former political officer in the Foreign Service, has run the office since March 2007. His regular dispatches offer a lively and sobering insider's view of the promise and peril facing U.S. efforts in that ...
Training of Experts in Rapid Coordination & Assistance for Conflict Prevention Operations and Post-Conflict Rehabilitation
Senior Training Officer Ted Feifer provided two days of training in communication, negotiation and mediation in cross-cultural and emotional situations to 18 participants in a month-long course conducted by the Spanish non-governmental organization Helsinki Espana.
Iraq: Provincial Reconstruction Teams
USIP's Iraq program aims to reduce interethnic and interreligious violence, speed up stabilization and democratization, and reduce the need for a U.S. presence in Iraq. As part of this program, USIP has maintained a small office in the Green Zone in Baghdad since early 2004. Rusty Barber, a former political officer in the Foreign Service, has run the office since March 2007. His regular dispatches offer a lively and sobering insider's view of the promise and peril facing U.S. efforts in that ...
Iraq: Training in the Karradah District of Baghdad
USIP's Iraq program aims to reduce interethnic and interreligious violence, speed up stabilization and democratization, and reduce the need for a U.S. presence in Iraq. As part of this program, USIP has maintained a small office in the Green Zone in Baghdad since early 2004. Rusty Barber, a former political officer in the Foreign Service, has run the office since March 2007. His regular dispatches offer a lively and sobering insider's view of the promise and peril facing U.S. efforts in that ...