Walking the Path of Peace

Leaders from all regions of Sudan are coming to The Institute's 4th Annual Leadership Development Workshop entitled "Walking the Path of Peace."

Participants will have the opportunity to learn leadership principles and skills that are essential to transforming a culture of violence into a culture of peace, including interpersonal conflict management and principled negotiation skills developed at the Harvard Negotiation Project.  They will learn to constructively engage with others across regional, ethnic, tribal and political differences, and to develop win-win solutions across these divisions.  There will be both informal and facilitated dialogues, as well as working sessions to generate ideas and initiatives to undertake upon their return home.

Participants will include leaders from the Sudanese diaspora as well as U.S. participants interested in Sudan or eager to learn first hand about the processes and work of The Institute.  This is a unique opportunity for scholars and graduate students to experience conflict transformation with leaders of groups who have been locked in intractable conflict.

The workshop will be held from September 17 - 26, 2010 at the YMCA of the Rockies Snow Mountain Ranch facility near Winter Park, Colorado.