In conjunction with the DC-based Association of Haitian Professionals, Senior Program Officer (Training) Nina Sughrue and Senior Program Officer (Post-Conflict Peace and Stability Operations) Robert Perito conducted a conflict management skills workshop on Saturday February 24, 2007 with Haitian Diaspora professionals from the Washington DC and New York metropolitan areas.
Senior Program Officer Jonathan Morgenstein and former USIP Senior Program Officer Ray Caldwell conducted the first of three workshops in Cucuta, Colombia from February 22-25, 2007. Cucuta is the capital of the Department of Norte de Santander and sits on the river border with Venezuela. It has been a zone of significant conflict and tensions in the past with one of the country's largest per-capita population of demobilized paramilitaries, a large number of internally displaced persons, and s...
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...
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.
Senior Program Officers Keith Bowen and Nina Sughrue held a seminar at the Defense Institute of International Legal Studies (DIILS) in Newport, Rhode Island for thirty-six civilian and military peacekeepers from twenty-four countries. The countries represented were: Argentina, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Botswana, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Colombia, Czech Republic, Egypt, Georgia, Ghana, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Malawi, Malaysia, Moldova, Mozambique, Nigeria, the Philippines, Turkey, Ukrain...
Building on their six training workshops with Armed Forces of the Philippines officers earlier this year, USIP trainers Ted Feifer and Jacki Wilson just completed two workshops in conflict management and negotiation skills for multi-sector participants from the conflict areas of Mindanao and Sulu. The workshops were conducted with Gene Martin of USIP’s Philippines Facilitation Project.
Each year the Spanish non-governmental organization Helsinki España conducts at least two month-long workshops on Rapid Coordination and Assistance for Conflict Prevention Operations, Crisis Management and Post-Conflict Rehabilitation. The workshops are designed to prepare participants from countries all over the world for work in field missions of international organizations. They dovetail with UN and OSCE training programs, and are part of the UN-accredited system of international peace-sup...
In conjunction with the Naval Postgraduate’s School’s (NPS) Center for Stabilization and Reconstruction Studies, the Institute conducted our biannual course, “Working Effectively in Post-Conflict, Humanitarian and Reconstruction Situations,” October 15-19, 2006, at the NPS campus in Monterey, California.
Nina Sughrue of the Professional Training Program joined with the Business Humanitarian Forum (BHF) and UN University for Peace on September 26, 2006 to conduct a pilot training workshop in Geneva for international organization personnel involved in humanitarian operations who wish to engage the private sector in post-conflict situations. The training workshop was endorsed by Director General of the UN Office in Geneva and attended by 18 representatives from UN organizations, NGOs and privat...
In September, Program Officer Jonathan Morgenstein, Program Assistant William Owens, and their interpreter Iciar Gomez conducted a two and a half week assessment of Colombia’s reintegration process for recently demobilized paramilitaries. The team traveled to Bogota and Medellin as well as to the northern department of Cordoba, interviewing over one hundred demobilized ex-AUC combatants as well as scores of government officials, NGO representatives, Catholic and Protestant church leaders, and...
