Tuesday, April 30, 2024
Iraq: Ambassador Crocker Arrives
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: 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 ...
CoESPU Seminar on Negotiations for Police in Peacekeeping Environments
Senior Program Officers Nina Sughrue and Jonathan Morgenstein continued USIP’s support for the international Center of Excellence for Stability Police Units (CoESPU), run by the Italian Caribinieri in Vicenza, Italy.
Negotiating Techniques In Multilateral Diplomacy
Ted Feifer and Mike Lekson of the Professional Training Program conducted a fifth workshop on negotiating skills in multilateral diplomacy for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in Vienna.
Workshop on Managing Conflict: Tools for Communication, Problem Solving and Negotiation
Institute trainers Nina Sughrue and Ted Feifer conducted a Workshop on Managing Conflict: Tools for Communication, Problem Solving and Negotiation in partnership with the Land Center for Human Rights (LCHR), in Cairo, Egypt, March 15-17, 2007.
SENSE and Conflict Management Training (Baghdad, Iraq)
With tremendous support from the Institute’s Baghdad Office, the Iraq Institute for Economic Reform (IIER) conducted a five-day SENSE and Conflict Management training exercise for the Baghdad Provincial Council at the request of the Baghdad Provincial Reconstruction Team. This session was also supported by Training Program Officer Allison Frendak and confirmed the success of the effort to establish an Iraqi-managed SENSE capability.
Conflict Management Workshop for Haitians
In conjunction with the DC-based Association of Haitian Professionals, Senior Program Officer (Training) Nina Sughrue and Senior Program Officer (Post-Conflict Peace and Stability Operations) Robert Perito conducted a conflict management skills workshop on Saturday February 24, 2007 with Haitian Diaspora professionals from the Washington DC and New York metropolitan areas.
Cucuta, Colombia Workshop I: Program on Long-Term Conflict Mitigation Capacity Building
Senior Program Officer Jonathan Morgenstein and former USIP Senior Program Officer Ray Caldwell conducted the first of three workshops in Cucuta, Colombia from February 22-25, 2007. Cucuta is the capital of the Department of Norte de Santander and sits on the river border with Venezuela. It has been a zone of significant conflict and tensions in the past with one of the country's largest per-capita population of demobilized paramilitaries, a large number of internally displaced persons, and s...
Workshop on Conflict Transformation: Southern Kordofan, Abyei, Blue Nile
Senior Program Officers Jacki Wilson and Keith Bowen, joined by Institute Executive Vice President Patricia Thomson, traveled to the heart of the Nuba Mountains to conduct USIP Professional Training Program’s eighth conflict resolution workshop for Sudan. The Nuba Mountains region was a central battleground throughout the North/South civil war. Working with the Badya Center for Integrated Development Services, a highly experienced local NGO partner (and USIP grantee), the training workshop g...
Advanced Negotiation And Problem Solving Skills Training For Professionals, OSCE Mission In Kosovo
Ted Feifer led a workshop in advanced negotiation and problem solving for 23 international and national staff members of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, in Pristina December 6-7, 2006. Workshop objectives were to refresh and reinforce negotiation and diplomatic skills, by helping participants become more effective in crucial conversations, understand and manage emotions in negotiations, and strengthen skills in group practical problem-solving.