Tuesday, April 30, 2024
Afghanistan Theatre Troupes Bring Messages of Law and Peace to Shuras, Prisons
A two-year project involving theater organizations in Afghanistan to convey lessons on the rule of law and conflict resolution brought the arts to remote locations, safe houses for youth and even women’s prisons. USIP examines the benefits and challenges of this grant project.
Pakistan Mock Assembly Hones Skills, Understanding of Next-Gen Leaders
In one of the most scenic but also one of the more contentious regions of Pakistan, USIP is supporting a project to inculcate civic skills, democratic culture, and a spirit of tolerance in the next generation of leaders.
Hindu Temple Clean-Up Dispels ‘Strange Legends’ for Pakistan Youths
A nonprofit foundation organized a group of mostly Muslim students to clean up a Hindu temple outside of Lahore, Pakistan, in a project supported by USIP’s Peace Innovations Fund for Pakistan. A video and an accompanying blog post by USIP Country Representative Nadia Naviwala explain what happened.
Network of Iraqi Facilitators (NIF) and Alliance of Iraqi Minorities
The USIP Baghdad Office (BDO) earlier this month hosted a meeting between USIP President- select Jim Marshall, Senior Vice President of the Center for Conflict Management Abiodun Williams, and members
USIP Support for Colombia's Path to Peace
Photo Credit: The New York Times/ Josh Haner
Planning for What Comes Next in Syria
Photo Credit: The New York Times/ Tyler Hicks
Iraqi Youth in TV Reality Show Support Each Other Amid Crisis
As the militant group calling itself the “Islamic State” killed and rampaged across northern Iraq in recent months, a former street artist from the Baghdad neighborhood of Sadr City began to notice something on Facebook: messages of peace and religious tolerance, cartoons courageously mocking extremism and photos of aid deliveries for people driven from their homes by the violence. The missives were posted by his former colleagues in the USIP-supported “Salam Shabab” television reality show.
How Technology Can Help Activists Navigate Under Pressure
How can technology support activists using nonviolent conflict approaches in difficult places? A two-day workshop at the United States of Peace (USIP) that gathered 70 civic activists, policymakers, technologists, NGO leaders, and education professionals sparked eight distinct, innovative projects that will aim to overcome limits to mobilizing citizens in repressive places.
PeaceTech Camps Bolster Iraqi Civil Society with New Skills
Tahseen Alzrikiny, a journalist in the city of Diwaniyah, south of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, wanted to tell the story of the farmers in the area who were struggling with structural and environmental barriers in cultivating their rice crops. He found the technology to make it possible at a USIP PeaceTech Camp.