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.
Praise for "Where is the Lone Ranger?"
“A timely assessment of America’s ability to develop and field an essential component of stability operations—constabulary forces, also known internationally as ‘formed police units.’ Perito demonstrates their importance by drawing on American experience, particularly in Iraq and Afghanistan, and explains why America has been slow to arrive at this solution, as well as why its governmental system inhibits its implementation.” —David Bayley, distinguished professor emeritus and former dean, S...
Detention Standards and Non-State Armed Groups
All armed groups capture or detain individuals in a variety of situations, but it is unclear what legal obligations, if any, non-state groups have when dealing with detainees. Bruce Oswald explores this question and the challenge of getting non-state groups to respect basic detention standards.
July Prevention Newsletter
The July 2013 Prevention Newsletter features a Q&A with Secretary Madeleine K. Albright and Ambassador Richard S. Williamson on the Responsibility to Protect and highlights the role of no fly zones as a tool for preventive action.
Assessing the Transition in Afghanistan
Stephen Hadley, USIP’s senior advisor on international affairs, gave the following testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.
China’s Subtle Strategy in the South China Sea
In a new Peace Brief, Lieutenant Commander Aaron Austin outlines China’s subtle tactics to expand its influence in the South China Sea and examines why they are so difficult to challenge.
The United States and R2P: From Words to Action
In this report, former Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright and the late Ambassador Richard S. Williamson identify concrete steps to increase U.S. capacity in preventing mass atrocities.
A Crucial Link
In places as diverse as South Africa, Northern Ireland, and Nepal, negotiators of national peace plans have for years sanctioned the creation of local peace committees (LPCs) to address community-level sources of grievance and thereby to build peace from the bottom up. In A Crucial Link: Local Peace Committees and National Peacebuilding, longtime practitioner Andries Odendaal engages in the first comparative study of LPCs and asks whether and where the committees have succeeded.
How We Missed the Story, Second Edition
In How We Missed the Story, Second Edition, Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Roy Gutman extends his investigation into why two successive U.S. administrations failed to head off the assaults of 9/11 and to look at the U.S. military intervention that followed. Anyone who thinks Afghanistan doesn't matter, or that Washington can walk away once again, is "missing the story."
Sensing and Shaping Emerging Conflicts
On October 11, 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 identify major opportunities and impediments to providing better real-time information to actors directly involved in environments where deadly violence could occur. This summary provides a synopsis of the day’s discussion.