United States Institute of Peace

Easily one of the best courses I have attended in almost 20 years as a practicing attorney. Thank you for allowing me to benefit from the instructor's, USIP's, and the guest speakers' vast knowledge and expertise.

The most important thing I learned was the important role played by local custom (legal and historical), and how much it needs to be taken into consideration when attempting to fashion post-conflict rule of law programs. The USIP [Academy] program, and staff and colleagues, were all part of a great professional experience.

Yours was the best distance learning program I've ever taken. The audio clips by people who lived the crises provided a perspective that mere reading cannot convey.

I thoroughly enjoyed this EXCEPTIONAL course, found it quite easy to use, and most importantly, quite instructive. The fact that I'm a U.S. Naval officer currently underway aboard an aircraft carrier in the middle of the Pacific Ocean should say quite a bit about the facility of your excellent program, and to use such an online tool of remarkable quality was an amazing experience regardless of location.

USIP [the Academy] has demonstrated that it can play an integral role in bringing participants with diverse backgrounds together to enhance individual and group situational awareness capacities.

My neighborhood faces escalating crime and disorder; I now have a better sense of how to connect what I'm seeing to a framework of peace building that will help me to positively respond.