Events

For two years, USIP Senior Fellow Robin Wright tracked the tectonic political shifts that culminated in the uprisings across the Middle East. USIP is pleased to host an in-depth discussion with leading Middle East analyst Robin Wright on the publication of her new book, "Rock the Casbah: Rage and Rebellion across the Islamic World."

Webcast: This event will be webcast live beginning at 10:00am EST on July 18, 2011 at www.usip.org/webcast.

"Identities in Transition: Challenges for Transitional Justice in Divided Societies" (Cambridge University Press, 2011) is the first book project to look systematically at identity and transitional justice mechanisms.  Please join the book editor, former project director at the International Center for Transitional Justice, Paige Arthur, and two of the authors, USIP Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow Cecile Aptel and Senior Program Office Lili Cole, for a roundtable discussion of the project.

USIP launched “The Iran Primer: Power, Politics and U.S. Policy,” featured Ambassador Dennis Ross, Special Assistant to the President, followed by top experts discussing the internal and external crises facing Iran. "The Iran Primer," a joint product of the U.S. Institute of Peace and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, brings together 50 seasoned scholars on Iran from some twenty foreign policy think tanks, eight universities, and six U.S. administrations.

Please join us for a roundtable which brings together a historian, a political scientist and a scholar/practitioner to discuss humanitarianism, from its origins in the early twentieth century to key challenges humanitarianism faces today.  Are the modern tenets of humanitarianism being called into question by current operations and missions?

USIP Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow Andreas Wimmer will present a new comprehensive dataset, complied in collaboration with researchers from the ETH Zurich, on ethnic power relations in all countries of the world since 1945.