Why did Congress select USIP to facilitate the Iraq Study Group?
| In 2005, also at the request of Congress, the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) successfully coordinated a similar bipartisan effort to evaluate our nation’s role and relationship with the United Nations. The Task Force on the United Nations' resulting report led to calls for immediate action and attention for reforming the United Nations. |
| The United States Institute of Peace was created by Congress with the signing of the 1984 United States Institute of Peace Act. By law, USIP is governed by a bipartisan Board of Directors and is tasked with preventing, managing, and resolving international conflict and promoting stability in post-conflict areas. USIP also "thinks, acts, teaches, and trains" providing a unique combination of nonpartisan research, innovative program development, and hands-on peacebuilding support.
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| With over seventy foreign policy specialists whose expertise bring decades of government, military, university, NGO, and other valuable experience to the international arena, USIP analysts are uniquely poised to advise, assist, and convene efforts such as the Iraq Study Group.
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USIP has been operating on the ground in Iraq since 2004, working with Iraqis to reduce interethnic and interreligious violence, speed up stabilization and democratization, and reduce the need for a U.S. presence in Iraq.
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*Note: USIP coordinated the process and provided analysis for the Iraq Study Group, but left drawing the conclusions and policy recommendations to the Group itself.
