Tuesday, April 23, 2024
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.
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...
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...
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.
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.
SENSE in Amman, Jordan
Following 2004´s training workshops for Iraqi national security officials (conducted in the U.S.) and for community leaders/civic activists (conducted in Baghdad and Sulaymaniyah), our priority for 2005 was to bring the two participant audiences together, and transfer the capability to conduct the sophisticated computer-based Strategic Economic Needs and Security Exercise (SENSE) simulation to an Iraqi partner organization.
Fifth Workshop with Iraqi National Security Officials
The fifth USIP workshop with Iraqi Officials held in Washington, DC was from September 13 through September 23, 2004. The group of 52 participants included men and women from a variety of ministries including Finance, Justice, Planning, Foreign Affairs and Interior.
Fourth Workshop with Senior Iraqi National Security Officials
The fourth USIP workshop was the largest yet; 57 Iraqis trained with the Institute. Many were Defense Ministry officials or military officers who had just completed a week of training at the National Defense University (NDU)´s Near East - South Asia Center for Strategic Studies (NESA) on the fundamentals of running an effective ministry and on civil/military relations in a democratic society characterized by the rule of law.
Workshop with Senior Iraqi National Security Officials on Building Iraq's Future
In the third of a series of workshops for Iraqi national security officials, USIP hosted twenty Iraqis, most of whom are occupying senior leadership positions in Iraq´s Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Justice, and Defense/Joint Headquarters.