Special Report
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.
Congressional Testimony: Institute President Richard H. Solomon and the Institute's Budget Request for Fiscal Year 2001
Remarks by Institute President Richard H. Solomon.
Grappling with Peace Education in Serbia
Since the violent breakup of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia began in 1991, the children of Serbia have suffered the debilitating effects of wartime conditions. These include various forms and degrees of deprivation: social, emotional, moral, and intellectual.
Burundi on the Brink, 1993-95
Ambassador Ould-Abdallah arrived in Burundi with a mandate from the United Nations to rescue the country's fledgling democracy and bring together political and ethnic rivals. His original mandate was for three months; he stayed two years.
Peace Agreements: Macedonia-Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Agreement on the Regulation of Relations and Promotion of Cooperation between the Republic of Macedonia and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (04-08-1996) Posted by USIP Library on: March 30, 2000 Source Name: United Nations Information Centre, Washington, D.C. Source Document Number: U.N. Doc. No. S/1996/291 Date Digitized: March 10, 2000
Macedonia: Prevention Can Work
This report focuses on recent developments in Macedonia, and seeks to identify the obstacles to and opportunities for continued democratization and greater ethnic harmony in a country that has--despite many difficulties--avoided the kind of violent conflict seen elsewhere in the Balkans during the past decade.
Peace Agreements: Cambodia
Final Act of the Paris Conference on Cambodia (10-23-1991) Posted by USIP Library on: February 22, 2000 Source Name: United Nations, Department of Public Information, Agreements on a Comprehensive Political Settlement of the Cambodia Conflict: Paris, 23 October 1991, January 1992, 1-6. Agreement on a Comprehensive Political Settlement of the Cambodia Conflict (10-23-1991) Posted by USIP Library on: February 22, 2000 Source Name: United Nations, Department of Public Information, Agreeme...
Peace Agreements: Sudan-Uganda
Agreement between the Governments of Sudan and Uganda (12-08-1999) Posted by USIP Library on: February 14 2000 Source Name: The Carter Center, Atlanta, Georgia, USA Date faxed: December 15 1999
Peace Agreements: Croatia
Erdut Agreement (11-12-1995) Posted by USIP Library on: February 14, 2000 Source: The United States and Croatia: a documentary history, 1992-1997. (Printing by USIA Regional Program Office, Vienna) [1997?], 270-271.
The Enemy has a Face
A highly engaging and accessible account of peacemaking in action.
The Israeli-Syrian Peace Talks
Helena Cobban here provides a fascinating look at the painstaking negotiations between the two Middle East powers that thrice went to war in the past half-century, and the role that the United States played in trying to bring Israel and Syria closer together on crucial points.