Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Kenya: Elections Could Go Either Way
Presidential and parliamentary elections in Kenya are scheduled for March 4. United States Institute of Peace Program Officer Jacqueline Wilson, who works in USIP’s Academy for International Conflict Management and Peacebuilding, returned from Kenya recently after conducting several electoral violence prevention workshops with Kenyan civil society organizations. In the following Q & A, she offers her analysis of that nation’s electoral preparations and the potential for electoral violence.
USIP in Minnesota
In collaboration with the University of Minnesota’s Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) was in the Twin Cities on March 1, to conduct a Grant Writing & Development Workshop.
USIP Conducts Second Referendum Violence Prevention Workshop in Rumbek
Academy staff Linda Bishai and Nina Sughrue traveled with Kelly Campbell (contractor) to Rumbek, Sudan November 17-22, 2010 to provide a training workshop on Referendum Violence Prevention (RVP).
USIP Co-convenes Two Asia Conferences amid Heightened Tensions on the Korean Peninsula
USIP experts traveled to the Korean Peninsula for a pair of conferences co-convened by USIP's Center for Mediation and Conflict Resolution. The discussions addressed rising tensions in the region and explored ways to reduce risk and build confidence between the parties.
Mediation Support Network Conference
In late October 2010, USIP's Virginia Bouvier traveled to Geneva, Switzerland, where nearly two dozen members of Mediation Support Network (MSN) organizations gathered at the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue (CHD) headquarters to discuss “Assessing Good Mediation and Mediation Support Practice — Outcome and Impact.” The meetings were conducted under Chatham House Rules, and all remarks from the MSN sessions were off-the-record and not for attribution.
USIP Sends Observers to Monitor South Sudan Referendum
The Academy’s Linda Bishai and Rule of Law’s Tim Luccaro traveled to Sudan between January 3-24, 2011 to participate as short-term observers in the Carter Center’s Observation Mission for the South Sudan Referendum.
The Cross-Border Dialogue Initiative
The Cross-Border Dialogue Initiative empowers border communities to solve their own problems non-violently and to advocate for their own needs and aspirations non-violently with their own governments and with international actors.
Preventing Electoral Violence in Haiti
USIP helped Haitian civil society leaders prevent electoral violence in their communities through dialogue and conflict resolution skills amid challenges on the ground in Haiti.
Negotiation Skills Training for OSCE Professionals
USIP traveled to Warsaw, Poland to conduct negotiation skills training for professionals who work on democratic elections, implementation of human-rights commitments, combating of trafficking in human beings, freedom of religion, civil society, rule of law, gender equality, and more, as a part of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe.
Colombian Women's Ecumenical Peacemaking
The Religion and Peacemaking program at USIP visited Colombia in November 2008 to support a joint-initiative of the Conferencia de Religiosos y Religiosas de Colombia, the organizing body of Catholic men’s and women’s religious orders, and Justapaz, a Menonite organization, to convene a four-day workshop outside of Bogota for Catholic and Protestant women peacemakers. This workshop provided an opportunity for women doing peace work on the ground through their churches to share best practices,...