Culture Resources Guide to Training and Education
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TRADOC Culture Center
(TCC; CAC required)
The TCC’s mission is to provide the U.S. Army with mission-focused culture education and training, with a focus on pre-deployment training during the AFORGEN process. It provides Mobile Training Teams to deploying Units, the Schoolhouse, and DA Civilian entities.
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The TCC’s mission is to provide the U.S. Army with mission-focused culture education and training, with a focus on pre-deployment training during the AFORGEN process. It provides Mobile Training Teams to deploying Units, the Schoolhouse, and DA Civilian entities.
Sample Materials:
- Afghanistan Culture Smart Book
- Army Culture Education and Training Curriculum: 2011
Leader Development and Education for Sustained Peace (LDESP)
The Leader Development and Education for Sustained Peace Program (LDESP) provides graduate level education for military and civilian leaders to establish a regional, geopolitical, and cultural framework for understanding the challenges of conducting full spectrum operations in unique and rapidly changing environments.
CONTACT (CAC Required)
CONTACT (CAC Required)
Cadet Command Cultural Understanding and Language Proficiency
(CULP; CAC required)
CULP is designed to prepare junior leaders for careers of cultural…
Culture and language Incentive Pay, Foreign Language Scholarships, Study Abroad Travel Pay, Active Duty for Professional Development Training in Culture and Language, OCONUS summer deployment.
Selected Materials:
CONTACT
CULP is designed to prepare junior leaders for careers of cultural…
Culture and language Incentive Pay, Foreign Language Scholarships, Study Abroad Travel Pay, Active Duty for Professional Development Training in Culture and Language, OCONUS summer deployment.
Selected Materials:
CONTACT
U.S. Military Academy Center for Languages, Cultures, and Regional Studies
CLCRS
The mission of the United States Military Academy’s (USMA) Center for Languages, Cultures, and Regional Studies (CLCRS) is to pursue applied and theoretical research in instructional design and delivery, experiential learning, and assessment in foreign language proficiency, intercultural competence, and regional expertise in support of the Academy’s academic and military program goals and U.S Army and Department of Defense (DoD) requirements.
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The mission of the United States Military Academy’s (USMA) Center for Languages, Cultures, and Regional Studies (CLCRS) is to pursue applied and theoretical research in instructional design and delivery, experiential learning, and assessment in foreign language proficiency, intercultural competence, and regional expertise in support of the Academy’s academic and military program goals and U.S Army and Department of Defense (DoD) requirements.
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U.S. Army Fires Center of Excellence Cultural and Foreign Language Program
(FCoE CFLP; CAC required)
Part of the Army Culture and Foreign Language Strategy Implementation, the FCoE CFLP brings together a wide range of materials for learning and teaching to include curriculum samples currently in use at the Field Artillery and Air Defense Artillery Schools. It also provides links to U.S. Army, Joint, and other resources.
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Part of the Army Culture and Foreign Language Strategy Implementation, the FCoE CFLP brings together a wide range of materials for learning and teaching to include curriculum samples currently in use at the Field Artillery and Air Defense Artillery Schools. It also provides links to U.S. Army, Joint, and other resources.
Sample Materials:
- NCOA Academy Culture and Language Training Plan (CAC required)
The Human Terrain System (HTS)
The Human Terrain System (HTS) Project is an Army-led, OSD supported initiative to provide socio-cultural teams to commanders and staffs at the Brigade-through-Theater level, in order to improve the understanding of the local population as applied to the Military Decision-Making Process. HTS attaches Human Terrain Teams (HTTs) to deployed units and support them with a CONUS-based Reach-back Research Center (RRC). This human terrain knowledge provides a socio-cultural foundation for the staff’s support to the Commander’s Military Decision Making Process.
Sample Materials:
Sample Materials:
- Commander’s Guide for Employing Human
- Afghanistan-Deployed HTT Locations, Feb 2011
USMC Center for Advanced Operational Culture Learning (CAOCL; CAC required)
CAOCL, as the central Marine Corps agency for operational culture, will ensure that we are a force of Marines-globally prepared, regionally focused—fully capable of effectively navigating the cultural complexities of the 21st century operating environments in support of assigned missions and requirements.
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USAF Culture and Language Center (AFCLC)
In 2007, the Air Force selected cross-cultural competence as the centerpiece of Air University’s re-accreditation. AFCLC is a one-stop shop for Airmen’s culture and language training and education needs. It also oversees the Air Force’s Negotiation Center of Excellence (NCE) and a Language Center. In May 2009, the Chief of Staff of the Air Force approved the Air Force Culture, Region and Language (CRL) Flight Plan.
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Joint Special Operations University (JSOU)
With active duty, reserve, and civilian faculty members from the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps, JSOU delivers unique SOF educational opportunities through in residence courses and integration of SOF curriculum with service Professional Military Education Schools.
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Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute (DEOMI)
DEOMI offers Equal Opportunity/Equal Employment Opportunity education and training for military active duty and reservists as well as civilians in both resident and non-resident courses. Its Division of Cultural Readiness conducts basic and applied cultural research to inform DOD policy makers, develops/validates and assesses cultural training, provides measurement, analytic capability, and online and knowledge management tools for culture available across the DOD and industry.
Sample Materials:
Sample Materials:
- Culture Clips: Videos demonstrating the impact of cross-cultural competence through scenarios.
- DEOMI Program / Course Catalog
United States Institute of Peace (USIP)
USIP is an independent, nonpartisan institution established and funded by Congress to increase the nation's capacity to manage international conflict without violence. USIP’s Academy for International Conflict Management and Peacebuilding offers practitioner-oriented courses at the Institute’s headquarters in Washington and elsewhere, conducts conflict management workshops and training in conflict zones abroad, and makes many of its courses and other resources available online.
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Sample Materials:
- Peacemaker’s Toolkit: Debriefing Mediators to Learn from Their Experiences, Apr 2010
- Afghanistan Media Assessment, Dec 2010
- Workshops: Mixing Business with Peace, April 2011
- Testimony for Commission on Wartime Contracting, April 2011
Institute for Defense and Business (IDB)
IDB fosters partnerships among government agencies and the private sector to achieve excellence and innovation through research and education. The Center of Excellence in Logistics and Technology (LOGTECH) at UNC provides research, graduate and executive education, forums, and a Subject Matter Expert Board. IDB’s Center for Stabilization and Economic Reconstruction (CSER) provides educational programs including pre-deployment economics and governance roundtables. Log21 is designed for early-career, high-potential corporate and military logisticians.
CONTACT
CONTACT
Defense Language and National Security Education Office; Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute
(DLNSEO and DEOMI)
This portal provides tools and resources that teach how to interact with people for a variety of cultures. Specifically, this website focuses on cross-cultural competence (3C) as it relates to negotiating, influencing, motivating, managing, adapting, and planning across cultural lines both domestic and abroad.
Cultural Knowledge Consortium (CKC)
CKC was created to primarily serve the socio-cultural requirements of the combatant commands. CKC seeks to collaborate with the larger socio-cultural community in an open manner in order to incorporate the best information and most diverse set of views.
