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INSIDE4 In the Field: Success Stories6 National Peace Essay Contest8 Covering the World

10 Spotlight on USIP Grantees13 Headquarters Update

14 Convening Power

UNItED StatES INStItUtE of PEacE

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security, con lict management and peacebuilding. Through the Academy, participants rom diverse backgrounds includinthe military, international organizationsthe non-pro it sector, international devel-opment agencies, and educational institutions have an opportunity to participatein a common learning experience on thcritical issues and tasks that they will ain con lict zones.

Over the last 20 years, the global secrity environment has moved rom the relative stability o the Cold War era to a morchaotic environment characterized by conlicts based not only on political ideologbut also on ethnic, religious and culturaidentity. Many o todays threats and national security challenges do not come romother power ul states. They come romweak ones, ailing ones, troubled riend

The United States Institute o Peace hasopened the Academy or InternationalCon lict Management and Peacebuilding.The goals o the Academy are to

strengthen the knowledge and skillso con lict management practitionersthrough education and training courses,develop materials to prepare pro ession-als to work in con lict zones,build the capacity o other institutions to

educate and train about con lict preven-tion and resolution, andcreate a community o con lict manage-ment pro essionals across specializations,institutions and national borders.The Academys curriculum encompasses

core courses on con lict prevention, man-agement and resolution, as well as skill-based and sectoral courses. The courses aredesigned to complement existing academicand pro essional programs in international

USIP Chairman Robin West, Vice President of Domestic Programs for Education and Training Pamela Aall, Vice

Chairman George Moose and former Chairman Chester Crocker inaugurate the Academy for International Conflict Management and Peacebuilding.

I am certain that our decision tostablish the United States Institute o eace will be regarded by those who cometer us as one o the best investments in

he uture that our nation has ever made.

Senator Jennings Randolph

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lishing trust through intergroup dialogues, and othermeasures. Recommended or practitioners whosepeacebuilding work requires them to work with reli-gious, ethnic, tribal, and minority groups.

Stren thenin Local Capacity: Trainin ,Mentorin , Advisin The course covers undamentals o how to developand trans er pro essional capacity in ragile statesincluding: designing and implementing teaching andtraining programs, recruiting and engaging adultlearners, and establishing adequate and e ective men-torship programs. Recommended or those whosework includes training, adult education and skillstrans er to individuals across sectors in post-con ictenvironments.

C lt ral Adaptability in Complex OperationsParticipants learn and practice culturally sensitive

communication, negotiating across cultures, under-standing cultural di erences as drivers o con ict,identi ying obstacles acing organizational designs,and incorporating culture into planning. Recom-mended or those whose work requires interactingwith local populations as well as military and civiliansectors.

Mediatin Violent ConfictWorking in ragile environments or con ict zoneso ten requires mediation between parties, whetherat a grassroots level or in state capitals. Participantswill learn the undamentals o mediation rom iden-ti ying ripeness to creating e ective strategies to helpparties reach agreement. Students practice their skillsthrough simulations, role play, and case studies.

Leadin Adaptive Teams in Confict Environments An introductory leadership course or students romdi erent institutional backgrounds expecting to leadteams in the feld. Helps students understand coreleadership unctions critical to working in con ictenvironments, and to develop the skills necessary toimplement them. Topics include: e ective decision-making, leadership, and coordination issues in un-certain, chaotic environments.

Civil Resistance and the Dynamics o NonviolentConfictProvides an in-depth and multidisciplinary perspec-tive on civilian-based movements and campaigns

in de ending and obtaining basic rights and justicearound the world. This course will ocus on gover-nance, strengthening civil society, grassroots move-ments, and human rights.

Ne otiations: From Checkpoints to Hi h PoliticsParticipants learn to adapt their tactics to vary ing,dynamic situations, and how to plan or a negotiation.Instead o a one-size-fts-all approach, participantsmaster a f teen point ramework that encouragesimprovisation and helps overcomes barriers to agree-ment in situations ranging rom policy coordinationto crisis negotiations in the feld to high-level diplo-matic encounters.

CORE COuRSES

Fo ndations o Confict AnalysisAn introduction to the subject o con ict analysis,

illustrating analytical tools used by practitionersthrough case studies and scenario gaming exercises.Provides analytical tools or assessing local and re-gional causes o con ict, potential triggers or escala-tion, and opportunities or productive engagement by third parties. Prerequisite: Completion o USIP On-line Certifcate Course in Con ict Analysis.

Preventin Deadly ConfictParticipants will learn techniques to analyze emerg-ing con icts and identi y opportunities or produc-tive engagement by third parties to prevent or mitigateviolence. Examines long-term strategies or con ictprevention (e.g., development assistance and othereconomic interventions, human rights promotion,

governance re orm), as well as tools or preventingimminent violence or halting violent con ict in itsinitial stages.

Peace Processes: Makin a Deal, Makin it Stick Participants learn how to help secure an agreementand insure its provisions can be success ully imple-mented or a lasting peace. Course includes lessonson getting parties to the table, addressing paradoxes,dilemmas, asymmetries, and ambiguities inherent inpeace processes. Concepts and phenomena such asdiasporas, spoilers, gender inclusion, ritual trans or-mation, power, and numerous negotiation issues areexplored.

Introd ction to Post-Con lict Strate ies andOperationsThis hands on course provides students with aramework or organizing and implementing post-con ict peace and stability operations based upondesired end-states. The course will ocus on criticalissues that con ront post-con ict interventions andthe overarching leadership challenges involved inmanaging these interventions.

Peaceb ildin Or anizations and Instit tionsThis course covers the missions, cultures, operatingprocedures, and other essential characteristics o key international organizations, regional organizations,government organizations, militaries, and nongov-ernmental organizations in peace and stability opera-

tions. Interorganizational planning, communication,and coordination in hostile environments are alsoaddressed.

STRATEgIC COuRSESConcepts, Tools, and Skills

En a in With Identity-Based Di erencesThis course outlines strategies and distinctive chal-lenges or third-party mediators and other advisers,including countering hate speech and exclusionary policies, engaging religious and tribal leaders, estab-

SENSE

SENSE is a computer- acilitated three-day simulationthat ocuses on negotiations and decision-making,

including resource allocation challenges and cross-sectoral coordination or the ull range o nationaland international actors. Sophisticated computer sup-port provides participants with rapid eedback on theinteractions o all the decisions in terms o politicalstability, social well-being, and a oundation or sus-tainable economic progress.

SECTORAL COuRSES

Sec rity and Protection in Fra ile StatesThis course ocuses on the critical nexus between thedi erent security mechanisms o the state, includingDDR, SSR, illicit power structures, and the actors in-volved such as the military, the police, private security,NGOs, and civil society that share a space in an inter-vention. Participants learn approaches that enhancethe legitimacy o a mission and acilitates the trans ero responsibility or security to the host country.

governance and Democratic Practices in War toPeace TransitionsThis course wil l enable practitioners and policymak-ers to develop e ective strategies in establishing stableinstitutions and helping to support a robust civil so-ciety in t ransition environments. Interactive exerciseswith critical analysis o various case studies ocus onestablishing governance and democratic practices individed societies, and o er a ramework that can be

applied in unstable, post-con ict environments.

R le o Law Practitioners Co rseO ers a comprehensive introduction to rule o law promotion in ragile and post-con ict states. Topicsinclude: re orming justice institutions (courts, pris-ons, prosecution, police, and de ense), law re orm,constitution-making, transitional justice, customary justice, legal empowerment and rule o law programmanagement.

Economics and ConfictParticipants explore the analytical links betweeneconomic activity and con ict as well as the practicalconstraints and rewards o using economic instru-

ments o con ict management. Participants ormulatethe use o economic instruments within a strategicramework or economic development in vulnerableand con ict-a ected states.

Enhancin Social Well-Bein in Fra ile StatesBuilding on the experiences o numerous internationalactors, this course investigates the undamentals o success ul humanitarian assistance and acilitatesin-depth discussions o the longer-term needs or so-cial well-being and development in ragile states. Thecourse will ocus on humanitarian assistance, re ugeepopulations, and the development o institutions thatcontribute to social well-being.

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UNITED STATES INSTITUTE OF PEACE

and complicated partners. They come romwar-torn regions and virtual communities.They come rom nonstate actors. Above all,they o ten come rom con lict zones, placeso bad governance, weak institutions, deep-seated communal cleavages and the typeso social environments that drive youngmen into criminal businesses, piracy, ille-gal networks and terrorism. These coursesill a major gap in the availability o trainingopportunities or a range o U.S. and non-American pro essionals rom the o icialand nongovernmental communities inter-ested in best practices related to the manage-ment and resolution o violent con lict, saysChester A. Crocker, chairman o the Acade-mys Advisory Council and ormer assistantsecretary o state or A rican A airs.

Setting up a range o coursework orparticipants physically present in Washing-ton or via distance learning, the Academy will cover the con lict management water-ront rom analysis to acilitation and romprevention to post-con lict peacebuilding.

Working in this environment, we havelearned that the con lict managers toolkitmust include many thingsnegotiation,institution building, capacity building, thedevelopment and transmission o norms,the arts o reconciliation and communica-tion across divided societies, says PamelaAall, vice president or Domestic Programs,Education and Training Center. Unlike theCold War period, these political tools are

widely di used and distributed throughoutour society and the international commu-nity in NGOs and regional organizations aswell as the U.S. and the UN. These evolvingchallenges require improved preparation

or international pro essionals working insuch environments.Around the world, intractable con licts

continue to resist peacemaking e orts o the UN, the U.S. and others. In the MiddleEast, Israelis and Palestinians have strug-gled or years to reach a negotiated settle-ment with only modest results. In partso Eurasia, secessionist struggles, powerstruggles, border disputes and guerrilla in-surgencies ebb and low but show ew signso receding entirely. The con licts in Kash-mir and the Philippines continue to lare

up despite concerted e orts to engage intalks. In many parts o sub-Saharan A rica,including Sudan, northern Uganda, theDemocratic Republic o Congo and Soma-lia, intense intrastate con licts exact a hightoll on their own populations and threatento low into neighboring countries.

In addition, U.S.-led interventions inIraq and A ghanistan have underscored theinite uses o military power and the im-portance o identi ying other instrumentsto restore political order. Military powerto be e ectivemust be applied in a politi-cal context.

To address root causes o instabilityrather than simply its resultsa numbero governments and other organizationsare taking on the tasks o con lict preven-tion, peacebuilding and post-con lict op-erations. National and international leadershave also come to recognize that todaysglobal security challenges are intertwinedwith humanitarian concerns, and that hardmilitary and economic power must be in-tegrated with so t power to achieve peaceand security. Intervention has become in-creasingly long-term, multi-dimensionaland complex.

The Academy will be a space or thislearning, providing a place where thecontribution, strengths and weaknesseso all o the tools o con lict responsemilitary, political, official and nonofficial,American and internationalcan beexplored, examined and made accessibleto current and uture practitioners.

How it works

The Academy currently o ers a number ocourses held at the Institutes headquartein Washington. These are generally 40-hou

courses, held either intensively during onweek or in shorter evening sessions oversix to twelve week period.

The courses o ered through USIPs education and training center include a mix otheory and practice, with a heavy emphason applied exercises, including case studisimulations, and practical and small grouexercises. They take a two- old approach teaching. They are largely elicitive in nture, meant to draw out and utilize eacparticipants pro essional experience. Thclasses also have a prescriptive compone

new concepts and analytical tools are itroduced, with the aim or each student tidenti y and articulate how these ideas cabe directly applied to his or her work. Aessential aspect o the courses will be ditance education. In time, all courses wihave an online component to reach muchbroader domestic and overseas audiences

Academic credit may be o ered or somcourses through partnerships with degreegranting organizations. In addition, the Institute will give a certi icate o achievemein con lict management or each courseStudents who complete our o the coursewill receive a credential in con lict managment. Students who complete eight courseand complete a capstone exercise or subma thesis will receive a diploma in con limanagement.

Academy students are trained to become skilled conflict management practitioners through theory and practice, group exercises, case studies and simulations.

Board Members Jeremy Rabkin and Chester Crocker, and President Richard H. Solomon celebrate the formal open-

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In he field: Su ess S oriesIraq

Diyala Province Proves a Model orS ccessLying northeast o Baghdad and stretchingtoward Iran in the East and Kurdistan tothe North, Diyala Province was once thebreadbasket o Iraq. But a seemingly never-ending series o con licts le t the provincebattered and tense: Sunni resistance andstri e between Sunni and Shia militias, theight against al-Qaida, and tension betweenIraqi and Kurdistan Regional orces.

Diyala Province remains a precariousplace but there are signs o hope, in part be-cause o USIP e orts on the ground there.

On May 4, 2009, the Provincial Councilo Diyala Province, supported by a jointUSIP-State Department Team, issued aDiyala Declaration that outlined a visionor the province, which has been devas-tated by war, terrorism and drought or thepast six years. Patricia Thomson, ormerexecutive vice president o USIP, currently serves in Iraq as Governance Team leader,and worked with the Institute experts inachieving this success.

The Council members, who representthe ull spectrum o Iraqi politics and soci-

Top and bottom: Afghani participants in advanced working groups focus on conflict resolution strategies that can beapplied to conflicts in their own communities.

ety, agreed upon a common set o goals in-cluding security, economics, transparency and e iciency in governance, improvededucation and the prompt and orderly re-turn o displaced persons.

The declaration is a living documentsubject to revision and re inement by theProvincial Council members a ter consul-tation with citizens o the province.

This ramework re lects USIPs impactin helping to create sustainable mecha-nisms and models in the ield.

In other Iraq news, our team recently received a letter that reminded everyoneo the impact USIPs on-the-ground e -orts have on individuals. The letter camerom William H. Zemp, a Senior Fellow inthe State Departments Bureau o Political-Military A airs. I wanted to take a mo-ment and say thank you, Mr. Zemp wrote.I was the battalion commander thatworked with you in Mahmoudiya Iraq20072008. Your initiatives helped save thelives o my guys and gave us other alterna-tives in nonviolent con lict resolution. Youmade a big di erence in Mahmoudiya.

Af hanistan

A hanistan: A Network o A han Facili-tators Resolves Provincial Con lictsUSIPs Network o A ghan Facilitators,ormed and trained rom the Institutes


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N ion l Pe e Ess y con es

Sophia Sanchez from Misso ri,Erin Morbeck from Arkansas, andSean Ray from Mississippi are thethree national winners of the20082009 National Peace Essay Contest.

They won $10,000, $5,000, and $2,500in college scholarships. Each state winneris awarded a $1,000 scholarship. Over the

years, more than 1,300 state winners haveparticipated in the Washington AwardsProgram. Many of these students have goneon to study foreign policy issues in collegeor pursued careers in international affairs.

Each year, the Institutes staff organizesan exciting program for the state winnersduring their week in Washington, D.C.Activities include

a challenging three-day simulation;meetings with knowledgeable speak-ers such as distinguished oreign policy scholars, practitioners, public o icials in

Congress and oreign diplomats;visits to historic national memorials andmuseums; andan awards banquet to announce nationalwinners and honor state winners.The contest promotes discussions about

challenging international issues o today among students, teachers, parents and youth leaders. The contest also improvesand strengthens students critical thinking,research and writing skills.

2010-2011 Contest Topic: TheEffectiveness of Nonviolent CivicAction

Each year, the Institutes Board o Direc-tors chooses a topic rom among many o the most critical international issues o today. Crimes against humanity, naturalresources, nuclear proli eration and youthin con lict are some examples o issues thathave been highlighted in the past.

The 201011 contest gives students anopportunity to examine the role o citizensin bringing about change using nonviolentmethods. Students are asked to conduct re-

search and orm their own ideas on condi-tions under which nonviolent civic actionswill most likely achieve justice, end con-lict or lead to positive political and socialchange.

Students may participate in the essay contest on their own or as part o a class.

Educators who are passionate aboutthese issues and dedicated to challeng-ing students to think globally can makethe contest a part o their curriculum or

encourage students to write essays out-side o their class work. A study guide onthe essay contest topic is available online(www.usip.org/npec/sg10.pd ).

Entries must be received by Febru-ary 1, 2010. Visit www.usip.org/npec ormore in ormation.

This year more than 1,000 students submitted entries to the National Peace Essay Contest while thousands moreparticipated in related writing and classroom exercises in high schools around the country.

On their final night in Washington, they were treated to a celebration and awards ceremony in Georgetown, whereCNN reporter Wolf Blitzer gave the opening remarks.

This years National Peace Essay Contest winners spent a day on Capitol Hill, where they were given the opportunity tomeet with congressional representatives and staffers from their home states.


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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton addressed USIP on October 21, as part of the Institutes annual Dean AchesonLecture. Secretary Clinton discussed the challenges of countering proliferation.

In remarks ocused on nuclear nonpro-li eration and timed to coincide with the

Institutes 25th anniversary, Secretary o State Hillary Clinton delivered the 2009Dean Acheson lecture. In addressing theUnited States Institute o Peace, Secretary o State Clinton talked about the importantwork we are doing in the area o non pro-li eration, including the recent report is-sued by the Congressional Commission onthe Strategic Posture o the United States,chaired by ormer Secretary o De enseWilliam J. Perry with James R. Schlesingeras vice chairman. The report examinedkey issues related to national security, arms

control and nuclear techonology. Here aresome excerpts:At the close o World War II, Acheson

was serving as under secretary o state.Secretary o War Henry Stimson was thecountrys leading advocate or nucleararms control. But Stimson had a tough op-ponent in then Secretary o State James F.Byrnes, who wanted to leverage the UnitedStates nuclear advantage to the maximumextent possible. Acheson looked beyondthe con ines o his bureaucracy and joinedwith the secretary o war in avor o armscontrol. He recognized that the world wasat a crossroads. And he saw that the UnitedStates had an obligation and an interestin working with other nations to curb thespread o the most dangerous weapons inhistory.

Today, we ind ourselves at yet anothercrossroads. . . . We now ace a di erent kindo threat, a threat that is more di use andperhaps even more dangerous. The rangeand intensity o current nuclear proli era-tion challenges is alarming.

The nuclear threat cannot be checked by us acting alone. Whether we seek to pre-vent the smuggling o dangerous nuclearmaterials, establish a new internationalramework or civil nuclear energy coop-eration, increase the IAEAs budget or per-suade governments with nuclear weaponsambitions to abandon their quest, we canonly achieve our goals through coopera-tion with others.

Clinging to nuclear weapons in excess o our security needs does not make the United

clin n Gives a hes n Le ure

States sa er. And the nuclear status quo isneither desirable nor sustainable. It givesother countries the motivation or the excuseto pursue their own nuclear options.

The right way to reduce our ex-cess nuclear orces is in parallel withRussia. . . . But we must do more than reducethe numbers. . . . We believe now is the timeor a looka resh look at the views on therole o the U.S. nuclear weapons arsenal.

For almost two decades, and over oursuccessive administrations, the UnitedStates has observed a moratorium on nu-clear testing. . . . A test ban treaty that hasentered into orce will allow the UnitedStates and others to challenge states en-gaged in suspicious testing activities. . . .

And make no mistake, other statesrightor wronglyview American rati ication the CTBT as a sign o our commitment tthe nonproli eration consensus.

Just as Acheson did in his time, we mumeet this challenge by acting boldly, wisehope ully and in concert with other nations. And once again, i we do so, Amercan leadership will ensure our security anthe peace o uture generations.

The nuclear threat cannot be checked by us acting alone. Whether we

seek to prevent the smuggling of dangerous nuclear materials, establish anew international framework for civil nuclear energy cooperation, increasethe IAEAs budget or persuade governments with nuclear weapons ambi-tions to abandon their quest, we can only achieve our goals through coop-eration with others.


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Negotiating with Iranwas launched at an event held at the Institute on September 23, 2009, which featured a panel discussion by (l-r) Ambassador John W. Limbert, Farideh Farhi and Kenneth M. Pollack.

NegotiatiNg with iraNWrestling the Ghosts of History

John W. Li e tSEPTEmbEr 2009

CoNfliCt, ideNtity,aNd reform iN the

muslim worldChallenges for U.S. Engagement

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SEPTEmbEr 2009

guidiNg PriNCiPlesfor stabilizatioN aNd

reCoNstruCtioNUSIP and U.S. A y Peacekeeping

and Sta ility Ope ations

SEPTEmbEr 2009

John W. Limbert

and Reform in the Muslim World: Challenges for U.S. Engagement at an event on Octo-ber 15, 2009, eaturing Daniel Brumberg,USIPs vice president, Centers or Innova-tion and coeditor Dina Shehata and special

guest speakers Keith Ellison (D-MN), U.S.House o Representatives; mer Tapnar,Saban Center, Brookings Institution; andPalwasha Hassan, Jennings RandolphA ghanistan Fellow, USIP. The paneliststackled questions explored in this volume,which ocuses on how the United States andits Western allies are looking beyond a de-cade o estrangement with a Muslim worldincreasingly ragmented by its own do-mestic and regional con licts. It highlightsthe challenges that these con licts withinMuslim-majority states and regions pose

or the West as well as the Muslim world. Aproduct o USIPs Muslim World Initiative,Conflict, Identity, and Reform in the MuslimWorld brings together the diverse views o a talented group o contributors. Our goalwas not to arrive at a consensus on the is-sues con ronting U.S.-Muslim relations butrather to re lect many diverse perspectiveson ways to improve those relations and topromote Muslim-world peacebuilding,Brumberg said.

Fo o e info ation a out this ook,

please visit http://www.usip.o g/ esou ces/conflict-identity-and- efo -in-the- us-li -wo ld.

uSIP La nches Doctrine forCivillian Peace Operations

On October 7, 2009, the U.S. Institute o Peace and the U.S. Armys Peacekeepingand Stability Operations Institute unveiledthe irst strategic doctrine ever producedor civilian actors involved in peace op-erations. The Guiding Principles for Stabi-lization and Reconstruction is a practical continued page 14 >>

roadmap or helping countries transitionrom violent con lict to peace. The question du jour is what the strategy in A ghanistan should be, said Beth Cole, lead writor the manual. This manual provides

strategic ramework that can help guidthat strategy. Strategic guidance or civiian planners and practitioners engaged ithese missions is long overdue. While thmilitary or decades has been equippewith doctrine to guide its decisions and ations, civilian actors still operate withouany uni ying ramework or principles oaction. Guiding Principles seeks to ill thi

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Spo ligh on USIP Gr n ees nd fellows Workingaround he World

Institute fellows and granteesare doing important eldwork inmany parts of the world. Here is a snapshot of their projects.

Haiti

JR Senior Fellow Robert Bob Maguire(200810) came to USIP to analyze pastinternational policy toward Haiti. Events

quickly thrust him into a more active pol-icy consulting role as Haiti endured devas-tating tropical storms and the e ects o theglobal inancial crisis, which sparked riotsover rising ood costs in the deeply impov-erished and unstable country. Maguire ad-dressed the Haiti Donors Con erence inApril 2009. He became an invited membero the kitchen cabinet o the U.S. secre-tary o states chie o sta and the pointperson or the current review o all U.S.government Haiti policies and programs.The senior ellow traveled to Haiti, where

he presented his research in Creole.

Latin America

Patricia Vasquez, a journalist and long-time expert on oil and gas issues in LatinAmerica, joined USIPs 200910 class o Jennings Randolph senior ellows on Oc-

tober 1. Vasquez will analyze the develop-ment o oil and gas and its relationship tocon lict in Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia andPeru. She will map these con licts, analyzethe mechanisms by which localized con-licts around hydrocarbons explorationand development are reopening old so-cial, economic and political tensions, andrecommend actions and policies or theirmitigation.

RwandaUSIP grantee Anne Aghion has been hon-ored with many prizes or her ground-breaking ilm, My Neighbor, My Killer.The documentary about the 1994 genocidein Rwanda was shown at the Cannes FilmFestival in May 2009 and was eatured in a New York Timesarticle quoting USIP Asso-ciate Vice President Sheldon Himel arb onthe power o ilm to change lives.

Lebanon

David Tolbert, a JR Senior Fellow at the In-stitute this past year, has been appointed by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon to bethe registrar o the special tribunal or Leb-anon. The position, which is at the assistantsecretary-general level, heads the Registry,the organ o the court responsible or the

Former Senior Fellow Robert Maguire traveled to New York in June to meet with President Bill Clinton regarding Clintons appointment as the UN Envoy to Haiti.

administration and servicing o the court,including all aspects o court management,witness protection services, the detentionacilities, and press and outreach activities.Tolberts ellowship ocused on relationshipsbetween international and domestic prose-cutions and trials and the complementarity principle established in the Statute o theInternational Criminal Court.

Sri Lanka and Ethiopia

USIP grantee Neil Boothby presented major new indings on gender and peacebuild-ing in June at an Institute event on SexualViolence in Con lict. In pilot studies in SriLanka and Ethiopia, Boothby and a teamo researchers ound that the majority o perpetrators who commit violence againstwomen and children are well known totheir victims. The USIP grantee and his col-leagues have recently published Care andProtection o Children in Crisis A ectedCountries: A Good Practice-Policy ChangeInitiative which highlights new ways todetermine the incidence o human rightsviolations, such as gender-based violence,separated children and child soldiers.

Women participating in a peacebuilding activity organized by the Hope International Development Agency, a USIP grantee.


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Senior Fellows

Imtiaz AliIndependent Journalist, Emergence o the TribalBelt as a Fault Line in the War on Terror: The Grow-ing In luence o Homegrown Pakistani Taliban andits Implications or Regional and Global Security

J dith As niJohns Hopkins University, Niger Delta Militants:Victims or Perpetrators?; Con lict and Violence inthe Niger Delta

Palwasha HassanA ghanistan ellow, Women and the Rule o Law inA ghanistan.

William Lon Georgia Institute o Technology, Cross-Border

Health Cooperation in Zones o Con lict: DerivingLessons or Improving Regional Stability and GlobalSecurity

geor e LopezUniversity o Notre Dame, Can Sanctions be Saved?

Andries OdendaalCon lict Trans ormation Support Services, LocalPeacebuilding Forums: Methodological Consider-ations

Jeremiah S. PamGuest Scholar, Strengthening Weak States in thePost-Nationbuilding Era

Sammy SmoohaUniversity o Hai a, The Challenge o National Mi-norities to Ethnic Majority Hegemony: ComparativeStudy o Ethnic Democracies in Israel, Estonia, Slova-kia, Macedonia, and Northern Ireland

Marc SommersTu ts University, Youth, Popular Culture and TerrorWar are: Insights rom Sierra Leone

Mohammed Masoom StanekzaiA ghanistan ellow, Security, Reconstruction andReconciliation in A ghanistan

Emman el Teitelba mGeorge Washington University, Putting Identity in

Perspective: Economic Re orm and Political Stability in the Worlds Largest Democracy

Patricia Vasq ezEnergy Intelligence, Untold Con licts: Local Resis-tance to Oil and Gas Development in Latin America

Col. J.M. Matt Venha sU.S. Army, Be ore They Cross the Threshold: TheUse o a Dissolution Strategy in Persuasive MediaCampaigns to Reduce the Pool o Potential Recruitsto Violent Extremism in the Middle East

Andreas WimmerUniversity o Cali ornia, Los Angeles, Understaning Ethnic Con lict

Robin Wri htIndependent journalist, The Future o Islam

Peace Scholars

Xanthe AckermanTu ts University, A ter War in A rica: Can the Education Sector be Harnessed to Prevent a Return Con lict? Case Study on Uganda, with Perspectivorm South Sudan and Liberia

Lo is-Alexandre Ber Georgetown University, From Patronage to PublGood: The Political Economy o Post-Con lict Sec

rity Sector Re ormPaola Castano-Rodri ezUniversity o Chicago, The Time o Victims: Instutional Practices and Understanding o Violence ithe National Commission o Reparation and Reconciliation in Colombia

Benjamin CoatesColumbia University, Trans-Atlantic AdvocateAmerican International Law and U.S. Foreign Reltions, 18981919

Neereda JacobAmerican University, Sanctions as a Cause o Nclear Reversal: (When) Do They Work?

Patrick JohnsonNorthwestern University, The Treatment o Civiians in E ective Counterinsurgency in Operations

Janet LewisHarvard University, Ending Con lict Early: Incipent States o Insurgency and Counterinsurgency

James Lon University o Cali ornia, San Diego, Voting, Frauand Violence: The Problem Elections in EmerginDemocracies

Tanya Pe ahiUniversity o Chicago, Dangerous Deterrent? Ev

uating the Risk that Nuclear Acquisition Will Embolden Weak States

Benjamin SchonthalUniversity o Chicago, Regulating Religion: StRegulation o Religion in Post-Colonial Sri Lanka

Pa l StanilandMIT, Explaining Cohesion, Fragmentation anControl in Armed Groups

Lorenzo VidinoTu ts University, So t Approaches to Counterterorism: Counter Radicalization in Great Britain, thNetherlands, and Italy

The Philippines

Despite continuing insecurity in Mind-anao, the HOPE International Develop-ment Agency, a USIP grantee, has madesteady progress in its e ort to develop 52model peace communities through thedelivery o trainings in leadership, gover-nance and value ormation. Among myriadplanned activities, the grantee recently con-vened a peace orum that eatured intercul-tural dialogue among Muslim, Lumad andChristian participants.

Civil Resistance

Civil resistance, an increasingly salient

but inadequately understood eature o international politics, is the ocus o a new USIP- unded study co-edited by Pro es-sor Timothy Garton Ash and Pro essor SirAdam Roberts.Civil Resistance & Power Politics: The Experience of Non-violent Ac-tion from Gandhi to the Present (Ox ordUniversity Press, 2009) documents andanalyzes 19 cases o nonviolent resistance.Based on research conducted by academicexperts on the particular cases and a con-erence at Ox ord University, the initiativeengaged participants in those nonviolentcampaigns, journalists and writers whohad reported on them and o icials whohad been involved in responding to them.The volume draws important lessons aboutthe use o organized nonviolence as an in-strument o social and political change, therole o external actors and the relationshipbetween violence and nonviolence. It alsosheds new light on the complex relation-ship between civil resistance and the vari-ous dimensions o power.

In recognition o the important contri-butions to the intellectual and policy com-munities in Britain, the project director, SirAdam, was recently elected president o theBritish Academy.

Deadlines for Competitions

Grants: October 1, 2010.JR Senior Fellowship: September 8, 2010

To apply online go to: www.usip.org/grants- ellowships.

the Ins i u e Wel omes Jennings R ndolphSenior fellows nd Pe e S holors or 2009-2010


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People on he MoveWilliam B. Taylor,Jr. joined USIP in

October 2009 asvice president, Cen-ter or Post-Con lictPeace and Stability Operations.

A graduate o West Point andHarvard Universi-tys Kennedy School

o Government, Taylor has served in postsin Iraq, A ghanistan, the Middle East andthe ormer Soviet Union. Most recently, hewas U.S. ambassador to Ukraine rom 2006to 2009.

Prior to that assignment, he was the U.S.governments representative to the MideastQuartet, which acilitated the Israeli disen-gagement rom Gaza and parts o the WestBank. Taylor served in Baghdad as directoro the Iraq Reconstruction ManagementO ice rom 2004 to 2005, and in Kabul ascoordinator o international and U.S. as-sistance to A ghanistan rom 2002 to 2003.Ambassador Taylor was also a coordina-tor o U.S. assistance to the ormer SovietUnion and Eastern Europe.

As an in antry platoon leader and com-pany commander in the U.S. Army, heserved in Vietnam and Germany.

Marvin Kalb, Ed-ward R. Murrow Pro essor o PracticeEmeritus, and Se-nior Fellow at theJoan ShorensteinCenter on the Press,Politics and Public

Policy, was the Sho-renstein CentersFounding Director

and Edward R. Murrow Pro essor o Pressand Public Policy (1987 to 1999). He wasrecipient o the 2006 National Press ClubFourth Estate Award. His distinguished journalism career encompasses 30 years o award-winning reporting or CBS and NBCNews as Chie Diplomatic Correspondent,Moscow Bureau Chie , and host o Meetthe Press. Kalb joined the Institute as its

USIP former board member Maria Otero was confirmed as undersecretary of state for democracy and global affairs.She accompanied Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to theInstitutes event on October 21st at which Secretary Clin-

ton spoke about the challenges of non-proliferation.

Former USIP board member Laurie Fulton was sworn in as U.S. ambassador to Denmark. Fulton has also been helping the Institutes building campaign to honor former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.

Flanked by USIP Board members Kerry Kennedy and Nancy Zirkin at the 2008 Dean Acheson Lecture, Interna-tinal Advisory Council member Elizabeth Bagley wassworn in on June 18th to be the State Departments Spe-cial Representative for Global Partnerships.

irst Writer in Residence. Kalb is workingon a book ocusing on the e ect o the Viet-

nam War on American policy and politics.He is also moderating programs or USIPand o ering guidance on the media andpublic diplomacy.

Daniel P. Serwer leads the Centers o Innovation, ulltime. Previously,Serwer divided timebetween the Centeror Post-Con lict

Peace and Stability Operations and theCenters o Innova-tion. He launched

the Institutes on-the-ground, operationalwork in the Balkans, Haiti, Iraq, A ghani-stan and Sudan. His new port olio includesinnovation in rule o law, religion, sustain-able economies, media and con lict, secu-rity sector re orm, science, technology,diaspora and gender. Serwer served rom1994 to 1996 as U.S. special envoy and co-ordinator or the Bosnian Federation, me-diating between Croats and Muslims andnegotiating the irst agreement reached atthe Dayton peace talks. From 1990 to 1993,he was deputy chie o mission and chargeda aires at the U.S. Embassy in Rome,where he led a major diplomatic missionthrough the end o the Cold War and theirst Gul War.


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He dqu r ers Upd eWe continue to progress on the Institutes headquartersbuilding. To date, Clark Construction has completed thestructural concrete frame and has begun the precast

concrete exterior faade. Scaffolding has been erectedin the Great Hall to allow for installation of the glassroof and south glass curtain wall.

The roof is scheduled to be completed by early 2010.Work for the remainder of 2009 includes continuationof the faade and roof as well as mechanical, electricaland plumbing systems. We have had many guests visitingthe building, including legendary jazz musician HerbieHancock.

Left to Right: Mort Gleberman, Rona Sebastian, Tom Carter, Cheri Carter, JohnStranix, Herbie Hancock and Donna Ramsey-Marshall.


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Former Prime Minister of New Zealand Helen Clarkevisited USIP on July 22, 2009, to participate in our U.S.-UN Working Group.

The International Advisory Council held its meeting inWashington. Kathy Bush-kin Calvin of the United Nations Foundation dis-cussed the role of NGOs inthe field.

Her Majesty Queen Noor of Jordan joined scientists,media makers and online participants from more than 13countries for Media as Global Diplomat II, an unprece-dented dialogue on the consequences of new research find-ings on the relationship between media and intergroupconflict.

The Hadley-Berger Senior Working Group continued itsdeliberations on strategies and approaches to Arab-Israeli peacemaking.

One o the ways that the U.S. Institute o Peace achieves its goals is through its con-vening power. We generate policy optionsand approaches to international con lictmanagement by bringing together expertsand stakeholders to cra t independent, bi-partisan and practical solutions to complex issues. We engage thought leaders and prac-titioners with our sta and experts.

Senator Kit Bond inaugu-rated our Congressional Newsmaker series with adiscussion of Afghanistan.

At a presentation luncheon for the unveiling of the Guiding Principles manual were (from left) Lt. Gen. William B.Caldwell, IV, commanding general, Combined Arms Center, U.S. Army; Janine Davidson, deputy assistant secretary of defense for plans, U.S. Department of Defense; Robert Jenkins, deputy coordinator, Office of the Coordinator for Recon-struction and Stabilization, U.S. Department of State; Senior Program Officer Beth Cole and Center for Post-Conflict Stability Operations Vice President Daniel Serwer.

gap by introducing a comprehensive set o shared principles and a strategic rame-work derived rom the enormous wealth o knowledge and experience that the globalpeacebuilding community has accrued

over the last two decades.Guiding Principles or Stabilizationand Reconstruction is a companion pub-lication to the U.S. Armys Field Manual3-07: Stability Operations and is designedto support the civilian side o U.S. inter-agency operationsthose entrusted to leadthese challenging missions. This book willhave an incredible impact on the uture o civil-military integration. Together withthe Armys revolutionary Stability Opera-tions doctrine, these complementary man-uals will in luence our national security

or generations, said Lt. Gen. William B.Caldwell, commanding general o the U.S.Armys Combined Arms Center. No civil-ian should deploy without them.

Fo o e info ation a out this ook,please visit http://www.usip.o g/ esou ces/guiding-p inciples-sta ilization-and- econ-st uction.

USIP President Dr. Richard H. Solomon and Keith Elli-son (D-MN), U.S. Rep. prior to the event.


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