Experts from the U.S. Institute of Peace provide the latest analysis and perspective on the world’s critical hot spots, U.S. and global security and issues involved in violent conflict, based on the Institute’s work on the ground and with key individuals, governments and organizations. They give interviews and background briefings to journalists and write for news outlets around the world.
Seventy-six U.S. colleges, universities, and public libraries in 32 states and the District of Columbia will conduct events that advance and promote the understanding of peacebuilding and international conflict resolution, as part of the new Public Education for Peacebuilding Support initiative, the U.S. Institute of Peace announced today. Awardees were notified this week.
TEDxWomen 2012, hosted by The Paley Center for Media and sponsored in part by the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP), will take place at the Institute November 30 & December 1.
Experts from the United States Institute of Peace are closely watching President Obama’s historic trip to Burma as the first sitting American president to visit the southeast Asian country. Over the last year, USIP, along with lead partner Asia Society and Blue Moon Fund, has worked with Burmese stakeholders to determine how the Institute’s expertise can support the democratic transition there, especially on rule of law and religion issues.
Jim Marshall comments on Veterans Day 2012 and the work of USIP.
Eighteen African countries held presidential, primary, or legislative elections in 2011. Eleven of these experienced violence that ranged from low-level intimidation and harassment to violent displacement and death. In “Voting in Fear: Electoral Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa,” a new volume published by the United States Institute of Peace, editor Dorina Bekoe and nine contributors address the causes of electoral violence and strategies for preventing it.
The Hague Institute for Global Justice (HIGJ) announced today that Dr. Abiodun Williams, currently a senior vice president at the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP), will assume the HIGJ’s presidency on January 1, 2013.
Sexual violence in conflict settings is increasingly recognized as a threat to international peace and security. As part of its work to bridge the gaps among academia, policy, and implementation in the field, the United States Institute of Peace and its partners are hosting “The Missing Peace: Sexual Violence in Conflict and Post-Conflict Settings.”
The Institute notes with great regret the passing of Ambassador Lawrence G. Rossin, who died on Saturday, October 6th after a battle with multiple myeloma.
To provide practitioners with a concise but broad overview of economic fundamentals as they touch on violence-afflicted states, USIP releases “Peace Economics: A Macroeconomic Primer for Violence Afflicted States” by Jurgen Brauer and J. Paul Dunne.