Events
As a national, nonpartisan, independent Institute, the U.S. Institute of Peace draws on our exceptional convening power to create opportunities for diverse audiences to exchange knowledge, experiences, and ideas necessary for creative solutions to difficult challenges. We serve as an important, neutral platform for bringing together government and nongovernment, diplomacy, security, and development actors, and participants across political views. The Institute’s events help shape public policy and priorities to advance peaceful solutions to conflict and strengthen international security.
Kosovo's Economy: Challenges and Opportunities
Economics and Finance Minister of Kosovo Ahmet Shala will talk about the new infrastructure projects in Kosovo, including transportation, telecommunication, energy, and waste management. He will also give his views on the current problems that Kosovo faces such as the trade blockade on Kosovo's exports to Serbia and Bosnia, membership in the International Financial Institutions, and regional integration.
Regime and Opposition in Iran
USIP invited an expert panel to participate in a frank discussion of the conflict between the Iranian regime and the opposition and its implications for the Obama administration.
Human Rights in Colombia: New Tools for the Toolkit?
USIP cordially invites you to join us for a discussion with Colombian Vice President Francisco Santos Calderón. Vice President Santos will talk about the status of human rights in Colombia today and Colombia’s experience engaging in a new United Nations process, the Universal Periodic Review (UPR).
Engaging Women in the Security Sector
What specific and unique contributions do women make throughout the security sector? How can military, police, and policy communities can enable their participation? How can troops not only protect women from sexual and other violence, but acknowledge and engage them as critical resources to fulfilling mission mandates? A panel will discuss these questions as well as potential human rights-based arguments to convince local partners of the importance of including a gender lens to security effo...
Albania: Stability vs. Democracy
Edi Rama, mayor of Tirana and chairman of the Socialist Party of Albania, shared his insights on the real challenges facing Albania’s quest for political, social and economic transformation, how successive governments have contributed to the current democratic deficit and his vision for the future.
Pursuing Safety and Freedom
This USIP event examined the complex nexus between democratic change and U.S. security interests, with a principal focus on Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco and Yemen.
Demystifying the Origin of Creative Breakthroughs
Tatushi Arai, author of Creativity and Conflict Resolution: Alternative Pathways to Peace, challenges the notion that creativity is a rare quality with which only a few gifted individuals are born and demystifies the origin of unthinkable breakthroughs for conflict resolution. With his extensive international experience as a mediator and trainer, Arai will enliven the discussion with case studies and stories from around the world.
How Women Moderate Extremism
A panel will offer views about the Bosnian reluctance to engage in civil society as a part of the peacebuilding process, and the role women have played in moderating extremism in their divided country. The speakers will present examples of several specific initiatives and offer their own recommendations on how the international community can support their efforts to stabilize their country.
Assessing "A New Way Forward": One Year of the Obama Administration in the Middle East
On the one-year anniversary of President Obama's inauguration, USIP and POMED invited a public audience to assess the Obama administration's first year and to examine the administration's oppurtunities to implement its vision of a new beginning with the Arab and Muslim world.
Haiti after the Earthquake
This discussion at the Inter-American Dialogue examined the damage that has been done to Haiti and its people by the January 12th earthquake and the challenges the country now confronts.