Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Peacebuilding and Community Dialogue in Sudan
Academy peacebuilding programs in Khartoum and police-community dialogues in Juba address the ongoing crises in north and south Sudan.
Darfur Deployment
Rwanda experienced a failed peacekeeping effort and underwent a horrific tragedy in 1994. More recently, the Darfur region of Sudan has undergone similar experiences. Today, Rwandan soldiers are playing a major role in Darfur as peacekeepers, and USIP is helping train them on how to do it.
Training Africans for African Peacekeeping Missions
USIP's training of Rwandan peacekeepers deploying to the Darfur region of Sudan "creates awareness of typical problems in the mission area and provides an opportunity to learn and use skills to deal with those problems."
Advanced Negotiation Training in Kosovo
Negotiation skills training can enable combatants to avoid violence in the future by providing "new things that I will use in the future," says one workshop participant.
Making a Difference in Kirkuk: One Policeman at a Time
USIP’s programs in Iraq aim to develop local capacities in conflict resolution and the rule of law. In that respect, USIP’s Iraq Priority Grant program supports a nongovernmental organization (NGO) based in the northern city of Kirkuk in its work to enhance community relations with the law enforcement units in this ethnically diverse city.
Building Capacity of Internally Displaced Afro-Colombians to Participate in the Political Decisionmaking Process
USIP supported a partnership between Global Rights and AFRODES to build the capacity of internally displaced Afro-Colombians to engage the Colombian government and appropriate international human rights bodies over issues of displacement.
Improving Interethnic Cooperation and Building Conflict Resolution Capacity and on the Pacific Coast
With USIP support, the Jenzera Foundation for Alternative Development carried out a training project designed to build conflict resolution capacity and encourage inter-ethnic cooperation in a number of rivers in Colombia’s Pacific coast.
Training Colombian Journalists
This project sought to highlight the broad spectrum of issues that link media and conflict resolution through a series of customized workshops and trainings in Washington, DC for Colombian war correspondents and editors. While providing an innovative training for Colombian journalists and war correspondents this pilot program also paved the way for more training for war correspondents within other war ridden countries.
Training for Macedonia Spillover Monitor Mission
Academy training in Macedonia emphasizes use of negotiation and diplomatic skills to prevent recurrence of inter-ethnic violence that might spill over into neighboring countries.
Peace in the Midst of Conflict: Local Peacebuilding in South Kordofan
News reports are full of reports of violence in South Kordofan, but peace still exists in many places. Despite escalating violence, communities historically involved in the conflict are rejecting violence.