Tuesday, June 25, 2024
Promoting Peace in Pakistan
The North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) of Pakistan are two of the most troubled provinces of Pakistan. The porous border areas between Pakistan and Afghanistan suffer from serious violent conflict due to the Taliban’s heavy presence in these areas.
Exchanging Best Practices with Israeli Community Mediators
ETC/I Deputy Director Ted Feifer, Senior Program Officer Maria Jessop and CMCR Program Officer Marie Pace met with six Arab and Jewish community mediators from three “mixed” cities in Israel to share experiences and discuss best practices in Washington on August 25, 2009.
Notes from Sudan
Ahead of the country's critical 2011 referendum on whether the South should secede from Sudan, USIP is dedicated to help resolve internal conflicts and help ensure the country's future stability and security. In "Notes from Sudan," USIP's Jon Temin writes about his recent tour of the country to get an update on the status of the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) that ended decades of civil war in Sudan and learn about preparations for the 2011 referendum and the 2010 national elections...
Briefing U.S. Army Civil Affairs Officers
The Education and Training Center/International (ETC/I) conducted a series of briefings for 11 U.S. Army Reserve civil affairs service members on August 18 and 26, 2009 deploying to Djibouti with regional responsibilities as part of the U.S. military’s Africa Command.
Young Iraqi Leaders at USIP for One-Day Training
USIP specialists discussed the tools and resources available online for peace-building with 60 university and 20 high school students, visiting the United States sponsored by the Department of State under the Iraqi Young Leaders Exchange Program.
USIP Training Continues to Foster Strong, Capable Parliamentarians in Pakistan
On August 13th, at the request of the Pakistani Institute of Legislative Development And Transparency (PILDAT), USIP Senior Program Officer Nina Sughrue conducted a one day conflict management session for 21 Pakistani parliamentarians in Islamabad.
Colombian Women's Ecumenical Peacemaking
The Religion and Peacemaking program at USIP visited Colombia in November 2008 to support a joint-initiative of the Conferencia de Religiosos y Religiosas de Colombia, the organizing body of Catholic men’s and women’s religious orders, and Justapaz, a Menonite organization, to convene a four-day workshop outside of Bogota for Catholic and Protestant women peacemakers. This workshop provided an opportunity for women doing peace work on the ground through their churches to share best practices,...
Experts on Peace Media for Iraqi Youth Set Goals for New Project
USIP’s Center of Innovation for Media, Conflict and Peacebuilding organized an expert working group on April 26-27 in Erbil, Iraq to discuss how to create a multimedia program that will provide Iraqi teenagers the tools to help them grow into independent, empowered citizens within a complex society. USIP brought together 25 experts for the working group, consisting of educators, media, youth NGO representatives, government officials and USIP-trained conflict resolution facilitators.
Dispatch from Port-au-Prince, Haiti
The process of drafting and passing new “people friendly” criminal laws is a difficult one but it is certainly not impossible. USIP's Vivienne O'Connor visited Haiti recently to help work with the national actors engaged in the reform process by sharing with lawmakers a law reform tool –- the “Model Codes for Post-Conflict Criminal Justice” book -- that we developed in cooperation with the Irish Centre for Human Rights, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights and the U.N. Office on Drugs ...
Guatemala
A scandal involving murder allegations against the president and escalating violence from drug trafficking threaten Guatemala’s stability. Former USIP grantee Anita Isaacs recently traveled to the Central American country, where she witnessed massive demonstrations that exposed the fragility of Guatemala’s democracy.