Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Workshop on Conflict Transformation: Southern Kordofan, Abyei, Blue Nile
Senior Program Officers Jacki Wilson and Keith Bowen, joined by Institute Executive Vice President Patricia Thomson, traveled to the heart of the Nuba Mountains to conduct USIP Professional Training Program’s eighth conflict resolution workshop for Sudan. The Nuba Mountains region was a central battleground throughout the North/South civil war. Working with the Badya Center for Integrated Development Services, a highly experienced local NGO partner (and USIP grantee), the training workshop g...
Advanced Negotiation And Problem Solving Skills Training For Professionals, OSCE Mission In Kosovo
Ted Feifer led a workshop in advanced negotiation and problem solving for 23 international and national staff members of the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, in Pristina December 6-7, 2006. Workshop objectives were to refresh and reinforce negotiation and diplomatic skills, by helping participants become more effective in crucial conversations, understand and manage emotions in negotiations, and strengthen skills in group practical problem-solving.
Negotiation and Leadership Training for NGOs and Members of Regional Development Councils in the Niger Delta
USIP Senior Program Officer Jacki Wilson, in partnership with Search for Common Ground and local partner The African Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility, organized a four-day capacity-building workshop in the Niger Delta town of Warri in February 2008.
Workshop on Negotiation and Conflict Management Skills
Trainers Ted Feifer and Jacki Wilson held a workshop on negotiation and conflict management skills for 35 businesswomen from Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, in partnership with the Business Women’s Association of Uzbekistan, in Tashkent, October 20-22, 2004. The workshop was opened by the Deputy Prime Minister of Uzbekistan, Svetlana Inamova, whose portfolio includes women's issues.
Peacebuilding and Development Course at American University
Education and Training Center International (ETC/I) Program Officer Mary Hope Schwoebel taught the course “Practical Approaches to Peacebuilding and Development” at American University’s Summer Institute for Peacebuilding and Development (PDI) June 9-13, 2008.
Conflict Resolution: A Multi-Regional Project
Ted Feifer and Skip Cole of the Institute’s Education and Training Center/ International conducted a one-day workshop for a multi-region group sponsored by the State Department’s International Visitor Leadership Program in Washington, January 11, 2008, on the “Responsibility to Protect.” This concept explores the responsibility of the international community when states fail to fulfill their sovereign responsibilities to their citizens.
Iraqi Youth Visit USIP for One-Day Training Workshop
The Institute’s Education and Training Center/International hosted a group of Iraqi youth from many parts of Iraq on August 25.
Kenya Youth Workshop
In the rugged highlands of Laikipia at the Gallman Memorial Wildlife Conservancy, Kenyan youth met for three days to turn energy and creativity into projects with goals, targeted audiences and intended outcomes. The workshop was facilitated by USIP Senior Program Officer Jacki Wilson with consultant Dr. Eran Fraenkel.
Foreign Policy Dialogue Among Emerging Leaders in Turkey and the U.S.
ETC/I Trainers Ted Feifer and Linda Bishai led a program on conflict resolution skills for Turkish emerging leaders on behalf of the State Department’s International Visitor Leadership Program, in Washington, October 27, 2008.
CoESPU Seminar on Negotiations for Police in Peacekeeping Environments
Ted Feifer and Mary Hope Schwoebel delivered two one-day workshops on negotiations and mediation in peacekeeping operations to 150 international stability police officers at the Center of Excellence for Stability Police Units (CoESPU), in Vicenza, Italy, on October 15-16, 2008.