ICR Student Practicum 2011
CICR’s program entitled Practicum Series: Drivers of Conflict and Peace has been underway since January 2011. The series is designed to increase students’ practical understanding of conflict dynamics and approaches to peace, and to enhance their technical skills in program design and management — with both desk-based research and field-based experience. Partnering with major actors in the field — UN agencies, multi-lateral organizations and regional bodies. Teams of students conduct a 10-week mission in the countries on which their projects are focused in the summer and present their findings in the following October. Past missions (2011) include: Republic of Liberia, Togolese Republic and Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Overview of projects (2011):
Impact of foreign direct investment on community relations and statebuilding: The iron ore and palm oil sectors in Liberia.
Summer research team: Frazier Lanier; Ashoka Mukpo; Frithiof Wilhelmsen
Partner Organizations: United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL), World Bank (Liberia) and United Nations Development Program (Liberia).
Partial funding provided by the Advanced Consortium on Cooperation, Conflict and Complexity (AC4)
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Dialogue as a means of sustaining peace and reducing fragility? Case study: Togo
Summer research team: Sandra Bitar; Abilene Seguin
Partner Organizations: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and the International Dialogue for Statebuilding and Peacebuilding, United
Nations Development Program (Togo).
Leveraging benefit streams from mining sector activity in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Implications for statebuilding and development
Summer research team: Haya Dweidary; Severine Koen; Emma Loebelson; Anna Snyder
Partner Organizations: Bureau d’Etudes, de Recherches et de Consulting International (BERCI), UNDP Political and Strategy Unit (DRC).
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