Fri & Sat, January 19-20, 2018
Description: This course provides an overview of and a practitioner framework for conflict landscapes where Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) is mandated in CVE settings. Since 1989, over 60 DDR mandates have been put into effect globally; in each case DDR was part of the peace agreement. In the last 5-years conflict has changed. Across Africa, through the Middle East, Asia and beyond DDR is being called for in ‘non-permissive‘ settings – during asymmetric conflict where ‘terrorist‘ groups and violent extremists dot the conflict landscape. Groups like Boko Haram, Al Shabaab, Al Qaeda, the Taliban, the Islamic State and others are operating in settings where DDR interfaces with CVE. Utilizing a practitioner approach to conflict and political risk analysis, participants are trained/educated with the skills to provide upstream support to policy makers, and downstream programmatic advice to practitioners where designing and implementing a CVE-DDR initiative.
Trainer: Dean M. Piedmont, Managing Director, Lecturer & Professor, The Preventing/Countering Violent Extremism Initiative [bio]
Fee: $289 Professionals / $259 student rate
Location: 5301 Wisconsin Ave NW #B1, Washington, DC 20015
Currently leading the ‘Countering Violent Extremism & Reintegration Initiative’, Dean Piedmont has more than fifteen years of experience as a program and policy expert in conflict prevention, peacebuilding, and livelihoods specializing in Child Protection, Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) including economic, political, psychosocial, social reintegration, youth and gender. A former Peace Corps Volunteer, he served government, bilateral and Non-Government Organizations (NGOs), including ten years with the United Nations (UN) from 2004-2014 serving as Deputy Senior Program Advisor assisting in the development of the Commander Incentive, Community Security Projects and the DDR effort in Afghanistan, the Deputy Regional Coordinator for the Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) based in South Sudan and UNDP’s Children and Specific Needs Group Reintegration Manager in South Sudan. Dean also managed a global portfolio of twenty-two reintegration programs for UNDP’s Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery in New York. Prior to entering the UN, he worked with the Research Triangle Institute in Iraq leading institutional assessments for youth departments, directed humanitarian operations in Afghanistan, and served in Sierra Leone as Program Manager for Child Protection with The International Rescue Committee.
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