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The Project on Leadership and Building State Capacity seeks to promote more sustainable approaches in international conflict prevention and post-conflict reconstruction, first, by conducting in-country training programs designed to strengthen the trust, communication, and negotiation skills among key leaders in countries emerging from violent conflict; and, second, by stimulating discussion and analysis of ways to achieve more effective and holistic strategies for peace building and strengthening state capacity.
The work of the Project on Leadership and Building State Capacity is overseen by an Advisory Council composed of experts, scholars, business leaders, and diplomats, which also advises the Wilson Center's Africa Program.
The Leadership Project is composed of four elements:
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Upcoming Events
Conflict Prevention and Resolution Forum
Tuesday, November 10 2009, 9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Raymond Shonholtz, J.D., President, Partners for Democratic Change;
Judith Gillespie, Director of Strategic Philanthropy, Search for Common Ground;
Dušan Ondrušek, Director of Partners for Democratic Change-Slovakia
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Inclusion of Civil Society Stakeholders in Comprehensive Peace Processes: A Practical Analysis
Monday, October 19 2009, 2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Steve McDonald, Consulting Director, Project on Leadership and Building State Capacity; Michael Lund, Consulting Program Manager, Project on Leadership and Building State Capacity; Carla Koppell, Director, Institute for Inclusive Security; Anthony Wanis-St. John, Assistant Professor, International Peace and Conflict Resolution, American University SIS;
Elizabeth McClintock, Managing Partner, CM Partners
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Security Council Implementation of Chapter VII Peacekeeping Resolutions:
The Case of Afghanistan
Thursday, September 10 2009, 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Speaker:
Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh, Lecturer, L'Institut d'Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po), Paris, and Director, Concentration on Human Security
Moderator:
Michael Lund, Consulting Program Manager, Project on Leadership and Building State Capacity, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
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Preventing and Rebuilding Failed States Amid Global Economic Crisis: What are Realistic Options for U.S. Policy?
Friday, June 05 2009, 8:30 a.m. - 5:15 p.m.
Jack Goldstone, George Mason University; Ambassador James Dobbins, RAND Corporation; William Zartman, SAIS; Ken Menkhaus, Davidson College; Sarah Cliffe, World Bank; Charles Call, American University; Gordon Adams, American University; and more.
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A Conversation with Senior African Leaders:
How Africa Can Meet Its Food Security and Financial Challenges, and Priorities for US Assistance Now
Friday, February 27 2009, 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
The Project on Leadership and Building State Capacity and Africa Program and the Partnership to Cut Hunger and Poverty in Africa present a discussion with African government and civil society leaders on current food security and poverty issues.
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The Responsibility to Protect: Ending Mass Atrocity Crimes Once and for All
Tuesday, October 28 2008, 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
The Project on Leadership and Building State Capacity and the United Nations Association of the National Capitol Area are proud to present The Responsibility to Protect: Ending Mass Atrocity Crimes Once and for All. This panel discussion will feature Gareth Evans, President of International Crisis Group and author of the new book, The Responsibility to Protect: Ending Mass Atrocity Crimes Once and for All (Brookings Institution Press, 2008), with welcoming remarks from A. Ed Elmendorf, President of the United Nations Association of the National Capitol Area.
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For A Safer Tomorrow: Protecting Civilians in a Multipolar World
Monday, September 29 2008, 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
A discussion about what the next administration can do to improve the protection of civilians in crisis situations. This expert panel discussed US engagement with the United Nations and peacekeeping forces, how to use our foreign assistance to increase the capacities of countries to protect civilians, and the role of diplomacy in these efforts.
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Publications
Occasional Paper Series: What Really Works in Preventing and Rebuilding Failed States
Religious Responses to Conflict: Lessons Learned and Practical Strategies for Peacebuilding
Author: Michael Lund, Joyce Dubensky, David Smock, Betty Bigombe, Deborah Schneider
This occasional paper is the fourth in a series titled, “What Really Works in Preventing and Rebuilding Failed States.” This fourth occasional paper is based on a public forum that took place on, Thursday, March 13, 2008, at the Wilson Center, entitled, “Religious Responses to Conflict: Lessons Learned and Practical Strategies for Peacebuilding.” Michael Lund, consulting program manager to the Leadership Project and senior specialist for conflict and peacebuilding at Management Systems International Inc. (MSI) moderated the session. The publication was compiled and edited by Mathias Kjaer and Sarah Cussen of the Leadership Project.
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UN Reform: Progress, Prospects, and Priorities
Authored by David Birenbaum, a Woodrow Wilson Center Senior Policy Scholar currently engaged in a study of United Nations reform.
This report draws upon the series of programs hosted by the Project on Leadership
and Building State Capacity at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
on the subject of UN reform over the past few years with the generous support of the United Nations Foundation Better World Campaign and the Andrew E. Rice Global Education Fund of the National Capitol Area Chapter of the United Nations Association.
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Youth and Politics in Conflict Contexts
Youth and Politics in Conflict Contexts is the result of a conference held at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars on May 16, 2007, and hosted by the Wilson Center’s Project on Leadership and Building State Capacity in collaboration with the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs.
The conference examined the diverse ways in which youth contribute to sustainable peace through active involvement in politics. The first panel examined the role of youth in building and strengthening democratic institutions in specific contexts including Bosnia and Kenya. The second panel explored young peoples’ involvement in elections monitoring and civic education campaigns during the 2005 elections in Liberia and assessed the youth agenda in Liberia today.
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Woodrow Wilson Center
One Woodrow Wilson Plaza
1300 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20004-3027
Email: leadership@wilsoncenter.org
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