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.
Southeastern Europe Web Links
Below are links by topical categories to resources primarily in English providing information on Southeastern Europe. For related web links, see Regional Resources: Europe and NATO at Fifty: Web Links. General Resources Government Agencies International Organizations and Regional Initiatives Primary Documents These links complement these Special Reports: De-Balkanizing the Balkans: Security and Stability in Southeastern Europe Taking Stock and Looking Forw...
Taking Stock and Looking Forward: Intervention in the Balkans and Beyond
Ten years of intervention in the Balkans—beginning with European monitors in 1991, extending through the ill-fated humanitarian efforts of the UN Protection Force in Bosnia (1992–95), to the current multi-purpose interventions in Bosnia (1995), Kosovo (1999), and Macedonia (2001)—have provided the most extensive post–Cold War experience in international community efforts to stabilize a conflict zone. Where do the Balkans stand now? What more needs to be done there? What has been learned? What...
Truth Commission: Timor-Leste (East Timor)
Truth Commission: Commission for Reception, Truth, and Reconciliation Duration: 2002 – 2005 Charter: UN Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET) Regulation 2001/10 Commissioners: 7 Report: Public report
Truth Commission: Serbia and Montenegro
Truth Commission: Truth and Reconciliation Commission for Serbia and Montenegro Duration: 2002 - 2003 Charter: Presidential decree 59/02 Commissioners: 15-19 Report: No report
The Diplomacy of Counterterrorism: Lessons Learned, Ignored, and Disputed
Summary Recent lessons learned in the diplomacy of counterterrorism included: the importance of consistent, long-term incremental steps taken against a phenomenon that will not disappear the necessity for a multifaceted policy that includes political, legal, social, diplomatic, economic, and military elements the need to develop realistic expectations and avoid a crisis mentality that is ultimately satisfying to terrorists, playing down military analogies that might lead to pub...
Islamic Perspectives on Peace and Violence
Summary Islam and the West share cultural roots, including a shared commitment to peace, but Islam and the West are out of touch with each other. The clash between the two, however, is one of symbols rather than of civilizations.
Responding to War and State Collapse in West Africa
Summary The past dozen years of warfare in West Africa have led to the death, injury, and mutilation of hundreds of thousands of people and the displacement of millions more.
The Role of International Financial Institutions in International Humanitarian Law
This project focuses on the innovative role that new groups and established international organizations can play in stemming the tide of atrocities and promoting adherence to international humanitarian law in regions whose inhabitants cannot count on the mature institutions of civil society to handle their grievances.
Training to Help Traumatized Populations
Summary Millions of people around the world have experienced psychological distress caused by exposure to armed conflict. Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), as it is often called, involves a range of normal responses to events outside the realm of normal human experience.