About the Academy
Peacebuilding can be learned, and with the right knowledge and resources, those working to make peace possible can create lasting global change.
Learn moreA Message from USIP
The coronavirus pandemic has upended lives and livelihoods around the world, and a long-overdue reckoning about systemic racial injustice in the United States have left many looking for a new way forward.
These challenging circumstances inspire USIP to recommit ourselves to a core part of our congressionally mandated mission: to serve the American people directly by providing education and resources to build just, peaceful and transformative ways to resolve conflict.
USIP is extending tuition-free access to its entire catalog of online courses until March 31, 2021 for anyone looking for tools, skills and insights on conflict transformation. More than 35 years in the peacebuilding field has taught us that conflict, though inevitable, can be resolved nonviolently and can be transformative.
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Resources
Glossary of Terms for Conflict Management and Peacebuilding
To help practitioners, scholars, and students answer questions about terminology, USIP has developed the Peace Terms: A Glossary of Terms for Conflict Management and Peacebuilding. This extensive glossary provides short definitions of a wide range of complex and often confusing terms used in the field of conflict resolution.
Conflict Management Training for Peacekeepers
Since 2008, USIP’s Academy has trained more than five thousand peacekeepers in core conflict management skills of conflict analysis, negotiation, mediation, and the protection of civilians. Based on interviews with returned peacekeepers...