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Up until the recent past, Kurdish society only had access to a limited and outdated number of tactics to resolve social tension and disharmony. With the coming of the uprising, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) recognized the need for an independent authoritative body which could maturely direct it's young and fragile liberty and implement methods of cooperation and conflict resolution to preserve and strengthen such a state. Thus, in June, 2001, ACCCR was established in Beirut, Lebanon. It is a coalition of six research centers in Iraqi Kurdistan and the United States that work collaboratively on building a stable conflict resolution and an untarnished educational capacity in the Kurdistan Region. The six institutions comprising ACCCR include the university of Dohuk, Salahaddin, and Sulaimani in the Kurdistan Region; Columbia University, American University and the Conflict Management Group, Cambridge, MA.
The ACCCR provides an otherwise unavailable space for academics, Political parties' representatives, and civil society in Kurdistan to work with one another and with U.S. partners to consider new possibilities for building a peaceful, just, and democratic society in Iraq. The ACCCR office at Dohuk University consists of teachers from the University of Dohuk, in addition to representatives from the Women’s Union in the Kurdistan/Dohuk branch.
- Prepare workshops to facilitate conflict resolving skills.
- Cooperation between universities in Iraqi Kurdistan and American Universities to prepare and train specialists in the field of conflict resolution.
In August, 2003; the University of Dohuk chapter office conducted a Conflict Resolution Curriculum Development workshop for 13 instructors from the Universities of Salahaddin, Dohuk, and Sulaimani. Experts from Colombia University and Conflict Managing Group from Harvard University gave lectures. In 2005, Professors from the University of Columbia in New York, the University of Salahaddin in Erbil, and the University of Dohuk recited lectures about the mechanisms and devices of conflict resolution.
From February 1, 2005 to July 31, 2005; the office conducted Conflict Resolution Training Courses for 60 students at Universities of Salahaddin, Sulaimani and Dohuk.
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