Ethnic Conflict: Crisis intervention, and post-conflict peacebuilding in escalated, intra-state, identity conflicts.

• Civil-Military Cooperation: In 2003, ACT-Pacific assisted the Center of Excellence in Diaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance by facilitating small group activities designed to develop civil military cooperation during UN Peace Operations.

• Cyprus Conflict Management: ACT designed and delivered a five-day training workshop for 25 young Greek and Turkish Cypriot adults in conflict management skills for the Cyprus-American Scholarship Program (CASP) administered by AMIDEAST in 2002.

• Greek & Turkish Cypriot Leadership & Conflict Resolution Summer Camp: In 2005, ACT organized and delivered a three-week summer camp with 35 Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot Middle-High School youth to help them develop leadership, conflict resolution, and community service skills and contribute to peace in Cyprus.
  

• Kosovo: In 2002, ACT's Craig Zelizer designed and delivered conflict needs assessment and conflict resolution training for young leaders representing all the ethnic groups in eastern Kosovo. Click the title for more details and photos.

• Georgian-Abkhaz Youth Development Program: ACT designed and delivered conflict resolution and related workshops in month-long intensive summer programs for 60 Abkhaz and Georgian war-affected youth in 1999 and 2000 (in partnership with Youth for Understanding).

• Georgian-Abkhaz Young Leaders Program: ACT conducted a 3-week leadership and conflict resolution training for 16 Georgian and Abkhaz youth as part of the Young Leaders for Peace program in 2001.

• Georgia Building for Future Program: ACT led a 9-day training in conflict resolution and peacebuilding for 25 youth and 4 educators from Georgia held in Turkey in 2005. ACT also facilitated dialogues on the conflict and IDP issues among the participants.

• Georgia-Abkhazia Democracy & Governance Project: ACT delivered a 3-day training on conflict analysis and resolution for 24 Abkhazian and Georgian university students, local NGO leaders, and government representatives, who were part of a cultural exchange study program organized by American University in 2006. A follow-up training was conducted, including a 4-day training-of-trainers for 8 Georgian and Abkhazian participants, followed by a 2-day training with 24 fellow Abkhazian and Georgian participants and a final day where participants developed action plans for individual and group projects to help build understanding and peaceful relations at home.

• Israeli-Palestinian Peace Partners Education Program: From 1999 - 2006, ACT staff worked on several education, training and curriculum development initiatives with Israeli and Palestinian educators. One long-term initiative, in partnership with Fairfax County Public Schools (Fairfax, Virginia), provided training for Israeli and Palestinian educators and youth and helped educators to develop conflict resolution curricula for their schools. 

  ACT worked with the Israeli Ministry of Education to design and deliver a nation-wide intergroup conflict resolution and violence prevention training-of-trainers program and worked with Palestinian Ministry of Education to provide training and curriculum development support.
  

• Irish Peace Process Cultural & Training Program: (Walsh Visa Program): Since 2000, ACT has provided conflict resolution and cross-cultural training for over 700 disadvantaged Catholics and Protestants (aged 18-35) from targeted conflict zones in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland in preparation for their work in the United States under the Walsh Visa Program (WVP). The WVP is administered by Northrop Grumman IT and funded by the United States Department of State (www.walshvisa.net). It is a joint initiative between the US, Republic of Ireland, and Northern Ireland government, and several local partner organizations in each country. (Read more...)

• Macedonia workshops: In 2003, ACT designed and delivered two workshops for Macedonian educators and civil society leaders in cooperation with the Institute for Sustainable Communities Macedonia. Click on title to see photos.