Education and Training Center

Education and Training Center/Domestic

The mission of the Education and Training Center, Domestic Programs is to create and deliver courses and supporting teaching materials, to improve the practice of conflict management, and to help professionalize the field. Target audiences include civilian and military practitioners, faculty from other institutions, and graduate, undergraduate and high school students.

USIP is currently developing a number of courses through which professionals from government, the military, NGOs, and IOs, as well as pre-professionals in the academic world can come together and receive training on core conflict management skills, as well as best practices in conflict prevention, peacemaking, and state-building. Click here to learn more.

USIP Hosts Reception at Conflict Resolution Conference
September 24–26, 2008: Austin, TX
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Ian Larsen, Director of Public Affairs and Communications as well as Andy Levin and David Smith from the Education and Training Center/Domestic recently participated in the Association for Conflict Resolution's conference in Austin, Texas. The Institute hosted a reception as part of the International Day activities on September 24.
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USIP Celebrates United Nations International Day of Peace
September 21–22, 2008: Cortland, OH
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The Institute participated in the UN-sponsored International Day of Peace on September 21, 2008 at a celebration in Cortland, Ohio. The event was coordinated by local residents Jean and Clyde Bolinger and included a peace rally and walk to the center of the city where Mayor Curt Moll read a proclamation.
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Institute Staff Visit California and Oregon to Promote Peacebuilding
September 9, 2008: Torrance, CA
September 10, 2008: Long Beach, CA
September 11, 2008: Fairfield, CA
September 11-14, 2008: Portland, OR
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Program Officer Raina Kim and Senior Program Officer David J. Smith recently visited academic institutions on the west coast to promote the Institute's work.
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Infusing Understanding of Peace and Conflict in the Muslim World into the Curriculum
June 17-20, 2008
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USIP co-sponsored a three-day faculty development program at Madison Area Technical College focusing on promoting strategies for teaching about the Muslim world. The program was sponsored with the Wisconsin Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies, the Illinois Consortium for International Studies and Programs, and the Wisconsin Technical College System Standing Committee on International Education.
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University of Hawaii Students Visit USIP
May 29, 2008
Students from the University of Hawaii Maui Community College visited USIP on May 29, accompanied by faculty member Joshua Cooper. The students were participating in a program on human rights sponsored by the University of the District of Columbia School of Law, the University of Hawaii, and the Hawaii Institute for Human Rights. Matt Levinger talked to the group about genocide prevention.

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