ACHIEVEMENTS
Since 1992, IMTD has initiated and facilitated various conflict resolution and conflict transformation projects in troubled regions in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle‐East.
IMTD has worked with CARE International to lead trainings in conflict resolution and peacebuilding in Kenya, Tanzania, Sierra Leone, Guatemala, Sri Lanka, Jordan, and the United States.
Bringing together leaders from political, cultural, and economic backgrounds, IMTD trained over 2,500 Greek and Turkish Cypriots over a period of eight years. Following the years of training, the deputy prime minister of the Turkish Muslim North raised the gates on the green line, encouraging Cypriots from both sides to move about freely and to coexist peacefully.
IMTD sponsored dialogues with Ethiopian expatriates that have led to the creation of a media project designed to promote press freedom and access in Ethiopia.
CARE INTERNATIONAL TRAININGS
CYPRUS: LEADERSHIP IN CONFLICT RESOLUTION
ETHIOPIA: PRESS FREEDOM AND ACCESSIBILITY
Due to involvement of IMTD and Ambassador McDonald, Equatorial Guinea has been promoting government funding and private-sector development and infrastructure to address the needs of its people through education, health, the environment, women’s issues, and sanitation.
LIBERIA: CONFLICT RESOLUTION TRAINING
Ambassador McDonald met with officials from Israel and Palestine to discuss the original agreement and the future use of the agreement as a tool for building larger peace agreements.
NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIVERSITY
IMTD designed a secure corridor linking the shrines with the cremains of the Founder of the Sikh faith which allowed visitors to make the pilgrimage across the Pakistan/India border without a visa. Prime Ministers Modhi and Kahn were nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize for jointly building out this confidence building measure.
NIGERIA: NIGER DELTA PEACE FORUM
PAKISTAN AND INDIA: THE PEOPLE’S BUS
RUSSIA: PEER MEDIATION TRAINING
UNITED NATIONS SECOND DECADE OF WATER
SIERRA LEONE: DO NO HARM TRAINING
In 1997, during a peaceful period in Sierra Leone, members of IMTD’s staff conducted conflict resolution workshops that involved conflict analysis, Aikido, and “do no harm” training.
SOMALIA: ENGAGING CIVIL SOCIETY
Ambassador McDonald and Program Associate Chris Bjornestad were able to meet with the Somali Minister of Internal Affairs, Mr. Dahir Sheik-Nor, who committed to conflict resolution through engaging government, civil society, non-governmental organizations, and citizens to build lasting peace in Somalia.
SUDAN: RECONCILIATION AND INTER-RELIGIOUS UNDERSTANDING
IMTD founder Ambassador McDonald and staff met with the Sudan Council of Churches and carried out an intensive conflict resolution and leadership training to encourage inter-religious understanding.
EQUATORIAL GUINEA: SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
ISRAEL AND PALESTINE: THE GENEVA INITIATIVE
KARTARPUR PEACE CORRIDOR
IMTD’s Dr. Eileen Borris was influential in offering training programs in conflict resolution, multi-track diplomacy, and forgiveness in the healing of wounds from mass murder in Liberia.
IMTD staff taught an elective course at the National Defense University entitled Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding. Over the 6 years this course was offered, IMTD reached 180 participants from 53 countries, including both military and civilian students.
IMTD has facilitated and supported the Niger Delta Peace Forum by training 100 members in conflict resolution, group facilitation, and leadership skills.
As a result of Ambassador McDonald’s work on behalf of IMTD, the People’s Bus crossed the rebuilt and renamed Peace Bridge from Pakistan into Indian Kashmir in 2005 for the first time since 1947.
Consultant to IMTD, Noa Davenport, traveled to Rostov to do conflict resolution and peer mediation training with over 100 teachers from Chechnya and Rostov at a conference organized by Women of the Don.
Ambassador McDonald led the successful effort to enact a second decade of prioritizing water and sanitation development, resulting in an additional billion people around the world having access to improved water and sanitation facilities.
TANZANIA: INTEGRATING PEACEBUILDING AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION
After an IMTD-led training in Tanzania, citizens founded the Tanzanian Conflict Resolution Center, which conducts its own trainings that seek to integrate Tanzanian ways of peacebuilding with western conflict resolution theory.
WATER FOR THE POOR ACT
Through its Water and Sanitation Project, IMTD is supporting the fight to make water a priority globally.