Tuesday, June 25, 2024
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.
Four Education and Training Workshops in Sudan
In December, the Education and Training Center International Division sponsored four programs in Sudan, in Khartoum, the Nuba Mountains and Darfur. The first of these was a seminar on Civic Education held on December 2-3 at the College of Sharq el Neil, Khartoum. Senior Program Officer, Linda Bishai, worked with Sudanese local partner, The Institute for the Development of Civil Society, to plan and implement this seminar which brought together teachers, education administrators, civil society...
Negotiation and Diplomatic Skills, OSCE Mission to Georgia
Ted Feifer of the Institute's Education and Training Center/ International worked with 19 OSCE Mission to Georgia staff in Tblisi, November 27-29, to enhance their peacebuilding skills. Georgia's domestic political turmoil has escalated in recent months, resulting in mass demonstrations in the capital, and a short-lived declaration of emergency and shut-down of anti-government media.
Iraq: Mahmoudiya Tribal Reconciliation Initiative
USIP's Iraq program aims to reduce interethnic and interreligious violence, speed up stabilization and democratization, and reduce the need for a U.S. presence in Iraq. As part of this program, USIP has maintained a small office in the Green Zone in Baghdad since early 2004. Rusty Barber, a former political officer in the Foreign Service, has run the office since March 2007. His regular dispatches offer a lively and sobering insider's view of the promise and peril facing U.S. efforts in that ...
Kirkuk Interethnic Reconciliation Workshop
On November 5, 2007, Senior Program Officers Jonathan Morgenstein, Keith Bowen, and Noor Kirdar concluded the third of three workshops in USIP's 2007 Kirkuk Reconciliation Program.
Leadership Skills Training for Pakistani Women Leaders
Nina Sughrue and Linda Bishai of the Education and Training Center International conducted a three-day workshop in Islamabad for Pakistani women leaders on negotiation and problem solving, in conjunction with local think tank the Sustainable Development and Policy Institute (SDPI) October 23-25, 2007.
Negotiation and Diplomatic Skills For OSCE Mission In Kosovo Municipal Team Members
Against the backdrop of high-level talks on the status of Kosovo, Senior Training Officer Ted Feifer conducted a third negotiation and diplomatic skills workshop for OSCE Mission in Kosovo municipal team members in Pristina, October 9-11, 2007.
In the Field: Iraq
As part of the Iraq program, USIP has maintained a small office in the Green Zone in Baghdad since early 2004. USIP's Chief of Party in Baghdad, Rusty Barber, offers weekly dipatches that capture a lively and sobering insider's view of the promise and peril facing U.S. efforts in Iraq.
Iraq: Creating a Tribal Council
USIP's Iraq program aims to reduce interethnic and interreligious violence, speed up stabilization and democratization, and reduce the need for a U.S. presence in Iraq. As part of this program, USIP has maintained a small office in the Green Zone in Baghdad since early 2004. Rusty Barber, a former political officer in the Foreign Service, has run the office since March 2007. His regular dispatches offer a lively and sobering insider's view of the promise and peril facing U.S. efforts in that ...
Iraq: SENSE Seminar & Training
USIP's Iraq program aims to reduce interethnic and interreligious violence, speed up stabilization and democratization, and reduce the need for a U.S. presence in Iraq. As part of this program, USIP has maintained a small office in the Green Zone in Baghdad since early 2004. Rusty Barber, a former political officer in the Foreign Service, has run the office since March 2007. His regular dispatches offer a lively and sobering insider's view of the promise and peril facing U.S. efforts in that ...