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.
Counting Every Casualty Worldwide
In 2010, In keeping with its mandate of promoting peacebuilding tools and capacities, USIP awarded a grant to Oxford Research Group (ORG) to initiate and develop a new international network of casualty recording practitioners to define and test a generalizable framework for enumerating the casualties of armed conflict. On October 22, 2012, Elizabeth Minor, the principal ORG researcher on the two-year study, briefed an invite-only audience at USIP on the report, “Towards the Recording of Ever...
Security Sector Reform in Tunisia (Arabic Version)
The long-term success of Tunisia’s new democracy hinges on efforts to reform its security sector. Most in need of reform are the police, gendarme, and interior ministry.
USIP Prevention Newsletter - November 2012
The November 2012 Prevention Newsletter features a spotlight on the Network of Iraqi Facilitators (NIF) in Ninewa, Iraq: A team of three conflict resolution professionals from the NIF took the initiative to bring sectarian leaders to the table to negotiate a peaceful end to the cycle of violence plaguing Ninewa.
Voting in Fear
In Voting in Fear, nine contributors offer pioneering work on the scope and nature of electoral violence in Africa; investigate the forms electoral violence takes; and analyze the factors that precipitate, reduce, and prevent violence. The book breaks new ground with findings from the only known dataset of electoral violence in sub-Saharan Africa, spanning 1990 to 2008. Specific case studies of electoral violence in countries such as Ghana, Kenya, and Nigeria provide the context to further un...
USIP Disaster Reservist Supports Hurricane Response
A USIP employee, Tracey Brown, has been deployed to assist with the response to Hurricane Sandy that hit the East Coast. Brown, a USIP contracts assistant, is a Federal disaster reservist member of the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Federal Surge Capacity Force. Her deployment will last 2-3 weeks unless the assignment is extended.
Truth in Reporting: Media and Communications in Conflict
From left: Onnik Krikorian, Anand Varghese, Len Lidov.
Adapting Agricultural Extension to Peacebuilding
On May 1, 2012, the Roundtable on Science, Technology, and Peacebuilding – a partnership between the U.S Institute of Peace and the National Academy of Engineering – held a workshop in Washington, DC, to explore whether and how extension activities could serve peacebuilding purposes. This summary provides a synopsis of the day’s discussion.
New USIP Book on ‘Peace Economics’ Launched at Institute
Creating sound economic policy and a stable macroeconomic framework is essential to societies recovering from violent conflict, yet few practitioners have the background needed to apply economic concepts effectively. The two authors of "Peace Economics: A Macroeconomic Primer for Violence-Afflicted States" describe their effort to provide an overview of practical ways that sound macroeconomic policies can help build stability in states affected by violent conflict.
Syria Conflict Rattles Lebanon
Photo Credit: The New York Times/ Moises Saman
Ambassador Johnson Cook, Specialists Consider Role of Civil Society in Religious Coexistence
The U.S. State Department’s “strategic dialogue” with international civil society, including faith leaders abroad, is underway and “planting seeds for the future” in fostering peaceful religious coexistence, Ambassador Suzan Johnson Cook, the U.S. ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom, said at the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) on October 22.