Tuesday, April 30, 2024
Professional Development Seminar for International Peacekeepers
Senior Program Officers Keith Bowen and Nina Sughrue held a seminar at the Defense Institute of International Legal Studies (DIILS) in Newport, Rhode Island for thirty-six civilian and military peacekeepers from twenty-four countries. The countries represented were: Argentina, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Botswana, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Colombia, Czech Republic, Egypt, Georgia, Ghana, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Malawi, Malaysia, Moldova, Mozambique, Nigeria, the Philippines, Turkey, Ukrain...
Professional Training Workshops in Conflict Management and Negotiation Skills in the Philippines
Building on their six training workshops with Armed Forces of the Philippines officers earlier this year, USIP trainers Ted Feifer and Jacki Wilson just completed two workshops in conflict management and negotiation skills for multi-sector participants from the conflict areas of Mindanao and Sulu. The workshops were conducted with Gene Martin of USIP’s Philippines Facilitation Project.
Rapid Coordination and Assistance for Conflict Prevention Operations, Crisis Management and Post-Conflict Rehabilitation
Each year the Spanish non-governmental organization Helsinki España conducts at least two month-long workshops on Rapid Coordination and Assistance for Conflict Prevention Operations, Crisis Management and Post-Conflict Rehabilitation. The workshops are designed to prepare participants from countries all over the world for work in field missions of international organizations. They dovetail with UN and OSCE training programs, and are part of the UN-accredited system of international peace-sup...
Working Effectively in Post-Conflict, Humanitarian and Reconstruction Situations
In conjunction with the Naval Postgraduate’s School’s (NPS) Center for Stabilization and Reconstruction Studies, the Institute conducted our biannual course, “Working Effectively in Post-Conflict, Humanitarian and Reconstruction Situations,” October 15-19, 2006, at the NPS campus in Monterey, California.
Public-Private Partnerships in Peacebuilding - Joint Training Workshop
Nina Sughrue of the Professional Training Program joined with the Business Humanitarian Forum (BHF) and UN University for Peace on September 26, 2006 to conduct a pilot training workshop in Geneva for international organization personnel involved in humanitarian operations who wish to engage the private sector in post-conflict situations. The training workshop was endorsed by Director General of the UN Office in Geneva and attended by 18 representatives from UN organizations, NGOs and privat...
Paramilitary Reintegration Assessment in Colombia
In September, Program Officer Jonathan Morgenstein, Program Assistant William Owens, and their interpreter Iciar Gomez conducted a two and a half week assessment of Colombia’s reintegration process for recently demobilized paramilitaries. The team traveled to Bogota and Medellin as well as to the northern department of Cordoba, interviewing over one hundred demobilized ex-AUC combatants as well as scores of government officials, NGO representatives, Catholic and Protestant church leaders, and...
Workshop on "Negotiation Styles and Grants Writing" for Pakistani Women Leaders
In conjunction with the Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI), Senior Program Officer Nina Sughrue and Grants Program Officer Carola Weil devoted three days to negotiation skills, collaborative problem solving and grants writing for 33 Pakistani women leaders on August 8-10, 2006, in Islamabad.
Conflict Resolution Training and Facilitated Problem Solving (Nuba Mountains)
Institute trainers Keith Bowen and Jacki Wilson arrived in the central Sudanese town of Dilling, at the foot of the Nuba Mountains, mere days after a series of revenge killings had left more than a dozen of its inhabitants dead. Working with the Badya Center for Integrated Development Services, an indigenous NGO, their mission was to train local leaders in conflict resolution skills, as well as to facilitate local problem solving.
Training Pakistani Parliamentarians in Conflict Resolution
USIP, at the request of the Pakistani Institute of Legislative Development And Transparency (PILDAT), held a series of workshops for women parliamentarians and politicians on "Conflict Management and Negotiation Styles" recently in Islamabad and Karachi.
Professional Development and SENSE Workshop (Warsaw, Poland)
The Professional Training Program, in cooperation with the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA), recently partnered with the Polish Ministry of National Defense to conduct a five-day Professional Development and SENSE Training Workshop at the Polish Academy for National Defense in Warsaw.