Conflict Analysis and Prevention
Latest from USIP on Conflict Analysis and Prevention
- September 12, 2012 | Publication
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday said that the U.N.’s Syria mediator Lakhdar Brahimi will meet with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad when he travels to the country later this week.
- September 5, 2012 | Publication
With the recent announcement that the Colombian government is going to begin formal peace talks with the FARC this coming October, USIP's Virginia Bouvier reflects on USIP's contribution to the country's pathway to peace.
- September 3, 2012 | Publication
Read about USIP’s on-the-ground and region-specific work aimed at the prevention of conflict in North Africa, the Middle East, South and Northeast Asia, and our special project on atrocity prevention.
- August 31, 2012 | Publication
August 2012 marks 25 years since the signing of the Esquipulas II agreement in Guatemala that brought an end to the wars of Central America. USIP's senior program officer for Latin America, Virginia Bouvier, explores what lessons Esquipulas II might offer for peace in Colombia.
- August 28, 2012 | Publication
On August 27, 2012, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos confirmed that he had authorized secret peace talks in Havana, Cuba between government authorities and the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC). USIP’s Virginia Bouvier looks at the state of the peace process and what might happen next.
- August 21, 2012 | Publication
At least nine U.S. troops have been killed in the last two weeks by Afghan “insider” attacks, eroding trust between NATO and its Afghan partners. While some of these attacks have been caused by insurgent infiltration of Afghanistan’s security forces, cultural differences and personal disputes have been the source of others, officials say. In a recent special report, USIP’s Nadia Gerspacher finds that better advisory training could help reduce such potentially volatile – and deadly – tensions.
- August 16, 2012 | Publication
Current USIP grantee Peace Direct is in the final stages of a project to empower peace committees to defuse local conflicts in communities in Southern Kordofan and Unity states near the contested Sudan-South Sudan border.
- August 9, 2012 | Publication
USIP awards two new grants to international groups that will work in Kyrgyzstan to help detect nascent conflicts and to bolster mediation and conflict resolution skills in the Central Asian nation.
- August 8, 2012 | Publication
USIP’s Raymond Gilpin and Brett Boor examine how conflict minerals are a symptom – and not the cause – of the continued instability in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
- August 1, 2012 | Publication
This paper builds on remarks on mutual accountability at the July 18 U.S. Institute of Peace panel discussion “From Transition to the Transformation Decade: Afghanistan’s Economic and Governance Agenda after Tokyo” (second session on “Filling the trust gap—what does ‘mutual accountability’ mean, what are the first steps, what is the role of civil society?”). The views expressed in this brief do not necessarily reflect the views of the U.S. Institute of Peace, which does not take policy positions.
- August 1, 2012 | Publication
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton this week left for a tour of Africa, including a visit to the world’s newest nation of South Sudan. USIP is providing seed funding and advisory support for the Sudd Institute, a new nongovernmental policy institute based in Juba. By helping to build South Sudan's capacity to develop and implement smart policies, USIP is fostering the new nation's ability to address the sort of instability and conflicts that have plagued other states in transition and led to deeper, more costly international involvement.
- July 27, 2012 | Publication
Although each revolution is different, each successful case of democratic breakthrough shares common domestic and international influences. This report examines 11 cases of past successes at removing autocratic regimes and establishing elections. It then applies its findings to the emerging revolutions of the Arab Spring.
- July 24, 2012 | Publication
A key divide in Nigeria is that between citizens who are deemed indigenous and those who arrived more recently. This new report says the government must do better to hold accountable those who commit indigene-settler violence and to foster greater equality in the land, education, infrastructure, and government job savailable to both groups.
- July 20, 2012 | Publication
USIP’s Lucy Kurtzer-Ellenbogen provides an update on the recent political upheaval in Israel and how that may impact the prospects for peace in the Middle East.
- July 20, 2012 | Publication
Minutes into the first scene of the championship rounds, before any of the competitions had started and before any winners or losers could be identified, one of the youth qualifiers started to cry.