Academy On-Campus Courses by Date (00110044).DOC



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Spring 2012

Spring 2012 Course Schedule

About the Academy

The Academy for International Conflict Management and Peacebuilding is the education and training arm of the United States Institute of Peace.

Applicant Qualifications

Course participants should have relevant experience in their field, except for online courses, which are available to everyone.

How to Apply

Directions for applying can be found at: academy/ how-to-apply

Location

U.S. Institute of Peace

2301 Constitution Ave. NW Washington, DC 20037

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Nuclear Nonproliferation and Arms Control Today:

An Introduction

Understand the major building blocks of strategic arms control and nuclear nonproliferation policy as well as current and emerging issues that the world will confront over the next few decades. Develop critical analytical skills in assessing arms control and nonproliferation issues, and a better understanding of their broader impact.

January 17-20

9 am-5 pm

Strengthening Capacity in a Reform Environment

Learn how to strengthen the capacity of individuals, institutions and society as a whole in post-conflict environments. Master the transfer of knowledge including adult learning principles, building rapport, developing conflict sensitivity, assessing local capacity, and supporting local ownership and sustainability.

January 23-27

9 am-4 pm

Cultural Adaptability in Complex Operations

Learn and practice differences in high- and low-context communication styles, individual versus collective organization, power distance, and temporal orientation. Recommended for those whose work requires interacting with local populations as well as across military and civilian sectors.

Strategic Economic Needs and Security Exercise (SENSE)

Participate in a computer-facilitated simulation that focuses on negotiations and decision-making in a post-conflict environment. SENSE simulates the resource allocation challenges confronting decision-makers.

January 31-February 2

9 am-5 pm

Location: George Mason University

February 14-May 15, Tuesdays

4 pm-6 pm

Mediating Violent Conflict

Improve your ability to understand the motivations and objectives of the various parties, promote ripeness, develop effective relationships, increase leverage, and strengthen mediation capacity. Participants practice their skills through simulations, role play, and case studies.

March 6-8

9 am-5 pm

Conflict Mapping Workshop

Explore how GIS technologies can support early warning and prevention efforts as well as community-level security initiatives. Participants develop strategies to address the technical, analytical, institutional, and political challenges involved in designing coordinated conflict mapping systems.

March 12-16

9 am-5 pm

Stabilization and Peacebuilding:

Understanding Dynamic Processes and Making Them Work

Learn the guiding principles for organizing and implementing post-conflict and stability operations based upon desired end states commonly accepted by the peacebuilding community. The course focuses on the critical issues that confront post-conflict interventions and the overarching leadership challenges involved in managing these interventions.

Academy On-Campus Courses 2

“These courses fill a major gap in the availability of training opportunities for a range of U.S. and non-American professionals from the official and nongovernmental communities interested in best practices related to the management and resolution of violent conflict.”

Chester A. Crocker, James R. Schlesinger Professor of Strategic Studies, Georgetown University

March 20-22

9 am-5 pm Location: George Mason University

Strategic Economic Needs and Security Exercise (SENSE)

Participate in a computer-facilitated simulation that focuses on negotiations and decision-making in a post-conflict environment. SENSE simulates the resource allocation challenges confronting decision-makers.

Overseas Religious Engagement

Learn how to navigate respectfully within religious spaces and with religious leaders, as well as how and when to implement programming in partnership with religious communities. The course provides guidelines for engaging with senior figures as well as grassroots communities. It incorporates lessons on how religion interacts with social, political, and economic dynamics.

March 26-28

9 am-5 pm

April 23-27

9 am-5 pm

Conflict Analysis: The Two Sudans

Learn about the sources of ongoing conflict and possible emergence of new conflict in the two Sudans. In addition to the issues of oil revenue, citizenship, debt and border demarcation between the north and south, the course will cover problems faced individually by North and by South Sudan.

April 16-20

9 am-5 pm

April 9-13

9 am-5 pm

Engaging with Identity-Based Differences

Understand strategies for addressing identity-based conflicts rooted in ethnic or religious differences, including responding to leaders who inflame identities, approaching the issue of religion, building relationships through dialogue and ritual, and making use of indigenous or traditional reconciliation measures.

April 2-6

9 am-5 pm

Conflict Prevention: Latin America

Maximize your effectiveness by learning how to anticipate threats of deadly conflict, halt and reverse the escalation into violence, and build coalitions. Conflict examples include violent insurgencies, large-scale criminality, civil wars, and transitional conflicts.

Building Bridges through Intergroup Dialogue

Learn how to use Intergroup Dialogue (ID) to engage alienated groups in safe conversation about their identities with the goal of improving understanding, dismantling perceptions of the “other,” and creating alliances that help pave the way to greater intergroup cooperation and peaceful coexistence.

April 30-May 4

9 am-5 pm

Governance and Democratic Practices in War-to-Peace Transitions

Develop effective strategies in establishing stable institutions and supporting a robust civil society. Dynamic modules address the interrelationship among issues of corruption, accountability, rule of law, elections, political party development, public administration, and economic reconstruction in divided societies.

May 7-11

9 am-5 pm

Rule of Law Practitioners Course

Learn about rule of law assistance in conflict-affected states. Through the use of case studies and interactive exercises, participants practice core rule of law skills and examine the dilemmas faced in rule of law promotion.

About the Courses

The Academy’s practitioner-oriented courses prepare domestic and international professionals to work effectively in conflict zones abroad and help decision makers develop successful approaches to preventing, managing, and resolving conflict.

Courses emphasize strategic thinking, practical application, and an interactive and diverse experience.

Participants come from a wide variety of backgrounds such as government agencies, international organizations, the nonprofit sector, the military, international development agencies, and educational institutions.

Academy On-Campus Courses 3

May 21-25

9 am-5 pm

Pilot: Health Care in Post-Conflict and Fragile States

Explore the importance of public health in fragile and conflict-affected states and understand how equal access to good health care is a critical component of post-conflict reconstruction and peacebuilding. Analyze short-term delivery of public health in conflict situations as well as long-term development of the public health sector.

May 21-24

9 am-5 pm

May 15-17

9 am-5 pm

Land, Property, and Conflict

Develop analytical tools for assessing and addressing an array of complex land and property disputes, from competing ownership claims and restitution to customary land rights and illegal urban settlements.

Pilot: Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law

Learn about the advances in the areas of human rights and international humanitarian law.

May 14-18

9 am-5 pm

Economic Reconstruction in Conflict-Affected States

Explore the analytical links between economic activity and conflict as well as the practical constraints and rewards of using economic instruments of conflict management.

May 29-June 1

9 am-5 pm

Negotiations from Checkpoints to High Politics

Learn to adapt tactics to varying, dynamic situations, and learn how to plan for a negotiation. Master a fifteen-point framework that encourages improvisation and helps overcome barriers to agreement in situations ranging from policy coordination to crisis negotiations in the field to high- level diplomatic encounters.

May 29-June 1

9 am-5 pm

Preventing Electoral Violence in Africa: Tools for Policymakers

Understand the broader landscape of the conflict and how that conflict is managed with a focus on stemming electoral violence in transition and fragile environments. Examine specific cases from important 2011 elections to analyze how electoral violence was prevented or mitigated through effective strategic planning and policymaking. 

June 4-8

9 am-5 pm

Pilot: Facilitation in Conflict Environments

Understand your role as a facilitator in conflict environments.

June 4-8

9 am-5 pm

Cultural Adaptability: Advanced Applications

Improve your situational awareness in post-conflict environments. Build up abilities in empathy and emotional intelligence for different cultural settings. 

June 11-15

9 am-5 pm

Strengthening Capacity in a Reform Environment

Learn how to strengthen the capacity of individuals, institutions and society as a whole in post-conflict environments. Master the transfer of knowledge including adult learning principles, building rapport, developing conflict sensitivity, assessing local capacity, and supporting local ownership and sustainability.

Academy On-Campus Courses 4

June 12-14

9 am-5 pm

Peacebuilding Organizations and Institutions

Understand the missions, cultures, and operating procedures of international organizations, regional organizations, government organizations, militaries, and nongovernmental organizations in peace and stability operations as well as interorganizational planning, communication, and coordination.

June 25-29

9 am-5 pm

Pilot: Trauma and Peacebuilding

Learn about the physiology of trauma and how this manifests itself in human behavior. Develop skills in recognizing trauma-affected behavior and strategies and tools to effectively work with these populations.

July 9-13

9 am-5 pm

Pilot: Applied Peacebuilding in Tribal Muslim Societies

Understand what contributes most effectively to sustainable peace in tribal Muslim societies. Focus on conflict resolution, development, security, governance, and justice in countries where tribal systems, Islamic systems, and Western legal-rational systems intersect. Case studies will include Afghanistan, Yemen, and Somalia.

Supporting Police Reform: Capacity Building for Advisers and Trainers

Become familiar with the actors, dynamics, and issues involved in police reform in post-conflict environments and how that reform fits into the overall security sector reform. Learn how to build the capacity of various actors and institutions to provide civilian-led security to the population.

July 10-12

9 am-5 pm

July 17-19

9 am-5 pm

Location: George Mason University

Strategic Economic Needs and Security Exercise (SENSE)

Participate in a computer-facilitated simulation that focuses on negotiations and decision-making in a post-conflict environment. SENSE simulates the resource allocation challenges confronting decision-makers.

July 23-27

9 am-5 pm

Distance learning, self-paced courses

Navigating the Inter-Agency Process

Explore the conditions for achieving a successful inter-agency process and outcome and refine your "lateral" leadership skills, that is, leading teams or groups in situations where there is no established authority.

Online Courses

A reflection of the Institute’s long-standing commitment to innovation, Academy Online is a distance-learning program that applies the latest advances in media and technology to bring relevant courses to the widest possible community of academics and practitioners. Course range from Conflict Analysis and Interfaith Conflict Resolution to Negotiation.

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