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Consolidating Democratic Gains, Promoting African Prosperity

Consolidating Democratic Gains, Promoting African Prosperity

Date: Friday, March 29, 2013 / Time: 5:00am - 6:30am 

Sierra Leone, Senegal, Malawi and Cape Verde all have made significant progress toward promoting democratic reform. These four countries’ heads of state shared the stage at the United States Institute of Peace for an important conversation on the link between good governance and increasing prosperity in their countries and across Africa. Read the event coverage, African Leaders Outline Roots of Stability, Economic Growth

Working in War-Ravaged Societies

Date: Thursday, October 27, 2011 / Time: 10:00am - 11:30am 

The United States Institute of Peace and the Peace Corps partnered to commemorate the Peace Corps’ 50th anniversary with this panel discussion on post-conflict environments and the requirements for preparing and protecting volunteers who serve in them.

Education & TrainingEducation & Training

Female Soldiers and DDR: Sierra Leone, Nepal, and Colombia

Date: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 / Time: 5:30am - 7:00am 

How are the roles of "soldier" and "victim" defined by post-conflict programs? Most disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration (DDR) programs are limited in the ways in which issues specific to female combatants are addressed. At this public event panelists examined the particular challenges faced by female ex-combatants in post-conflict environments, and ways in which reintegration agencies and post-conflict programs can integrate gender into their work.

GenderMediation, Negotiation & Dialogue

Youth at War, Youth Building Peace, Youth on the Margins

Date: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 / Time: 10:00am - 11:30am 

This event celebrated the publication of Youth in Post-Conflict Reconstruction: Agents of Change by Stephanie Schwartz published by the U.S. Institute of Peace. Using three cases of post-conflict reconstruction—Mozambique, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Kosovo—this study goes beyond the well documented cases focused exclusively on child soldiers to examine the roles of the broader youth population and their impact on the reconstruction process. The panelists drew on their own exper...

Youth

How Conflict Changes Gender

Date: Tuesday, May 18, 2010 / Time: 6:00am - 2:00pm 

A Workshop with Leading Researchers and Practitioners on Conflict and Gender

Gender