Publications
Articles, publications, books, tools and multimedia features from the U.S. Institute of Peace provide the latest news, analysis, research findings, practitioner guides and reports, all related to the conflict zones and issues that are at the center of the Institute’s work to prevent and reduce violent conflict.
Trauma and Transitional Justice in Divided Societies
In March 2004, the United States Institute of Peace (USIP), with assistance from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), hosted a three-day conference at Airlie House in Warrenton, Virginia, entitled "Trauma and Transitional Justice in Divided Societies." The purpose of the conference was to explore, from different disciplinary perspectives, how divided societies emerging from violent conflict have sought justice and reconciliation through various transitional jus...
Dealing With the Illicit Drug Trade: The Afghan Quandary
USIPeace Briefing examines the alarming increase in poppy cultivation in post-conflict Afghanistan.
Peace Agreements: Sudan
Comprehensive Peace Agreement Note: The Comprehensive Peace Agreement is a collection of agreements agreed to December 31, 2004 and signed, in a formal ceremony, on January 9, 2005. Included are updates and amendments to previous protocols. For research purposes, we maintain the documents which have been previously agreeed to in our digital collection, although many of these have been superceded by the Comprehensive Peace Agreement. Agreement Between the Government of the Sudan (GOS) and...
Quickstep or Kadam Taal?: The Elusive Search for Peace in Jammu and Kashmir
At first glance, India and Pakistan today seem closer to peace than at any point in the past several decades. Yet the current détente process between India and Pakistan suffers from the same structural infirmities that led past peace initiatives to collapse. peacemakers might do well to focus on the problems of the state’s peoples—thus building a base from which creative democratic solutions might eventually emerge.
Peace Agreements: Democratic Republic of the Congo
Ceasefire Agreement
Crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: Role of the International Community
USIPeace Briefing focuses on what the international community can do to promote democracy in the Congo and help resolve or manage tensions between the Congo and its neighbors, particularly Rwanda.
Arab-Israeli Futures: Next Steps for the United States
Conference Paper
How Israelis and Palestinians Negotiate
Refreshing and revealing in equal measure, this innovative volume conducts a critical/self--critical exploration of the impact of culture on the ill-fated Oslo peace process. After an overview by William Quandt of the history of the Oslo process and the impact of international factors such as U.S. mediation, the volume presents a detailed analysis of first Palestinian, and then Israeli negotiating styles between 1993 and 2001.
Engineering Peace
In this timely work, Colonel Garland Williams analyzes the postconflict reconstruction gap in three case studies—Bosnia, Kosovo, and Afghanistan—and shows how military engineering brigades accompanying peacekeeping contingents can be put to use immediately after the conflict ends to restore vital infrastructure and social institutions.
Iraq's Next Milestone: Iraqi Constitution-Making
A Congressional briefing on the prospects for Iraq constitution-making.