Institute for Sustainable Peace CEO Randall Butler Travels to Sudan to Explore In-Country Collaborative Peace Building Efforts

Oct 12, 2009 (PRN): Randall E. Butler, CEO of the Institute for Sustainable Peace (ISP), will be traveling to Sudan, October 13 - 22, as the first step in an initiative begun at the Institute's Leadership Development Workshops (LDW) held for the past three years. ISP hopes to lead "Train the Trainer" workshops, a series of Leadership Development Workshops in Sudan which will begin in 2010. The LDWs will bring grass-roots leaders together from all regions of Sudan for the learning of reconciliation techniques. "This grass roots effort is not affiliated with any political organization or party and is an effort by the Institute for Sustainable Peace to expand peace-building capacity in the region," commented ISP CEO Randall E. Butler. ISP seeks to build bridges amongst members of the Sudanese community and offer peace building capacity skills through in-country collaborations.

The team will start in Khartoum, meeting with leaders in government from both major parties and leaders of NGO's serving in Sudan.

The Institute for Sustainable Peace seeks to reconcile and foster dialogue among people of different ethnic groups, nationalities, economic levels, and religions while respecting and promoting diversity. ISP educates leaders and gives them skills to prevent and repair destructive conflict, and build sustainable peace. Through collaborative efforts, ISP equips communities with social skills and technologies for healing conflicts.

Mr. Butler is the founding director of the Institute for Sustainable Peace and President of Butler Mediation Services. Formerly a partner in the law firm of Fulbright & Jaworski, L.L.P., on January 1, 1999, Mr. Butler left his litigation practice to focus full time on conflict resolution and peacemaking. Mr. Butler has earned over two hundred hours of training in mediation, negotiation and conflict resolution, including completion of the Harvard Negotiation Workshop of the Harvard Negotiation Project and has taught a graduate level course in International Conflict Resolution. Mr. Butler has dedicated his life's work to the belief that building sustainable peace is possible and that conflicts can be overcome through collaborative interaction between hostile groups. Mr. Butler has traveled to Croatia where he taught generative dialogues and conflict resolution skills to future leaders from Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, Albania, Macedonia and other neighboring countries. [Wired by: PressReleaseNetwork.com]

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