Kathleen Kuehnast
Director, Gender and Peacebuilding Center
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Languages: Russian, German, Kyrgyz
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Kathleen Kuehnast is director of the Gender and Peacebuilding Center at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP). She is co-editor of the volume, Women and War: Power and Protection in the 21st Century (2011), which focuses on the gap between international commitments like UN Resolution 1325 and the harsh realities facing women in war, as well as the critical role women play in peacebuilding efforts. As a socio-cultural anthropologist, her work examines the impact of political and economic transitions on societal gender roles, including how social networks and social capital intersect with local practices of conflict resolution. For fifteen years of her career, she worked in the international development field, primarily with the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank, where her research included such topics as conflict drivers in Central Asia; community driven development in post-conflict reconstruction; migration impacts on gender roles; qualitative studies of poverty in transitional countries; and systematized guidance notes on social analysis for economists. Kuehnast is a recipient of the Mellon Foreign Fellowship at the Library of Congress (2000) and the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies Fellowship (1999) at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. She lived several years in Kyrgyzstan, where she researched and wrote extensively on the impact of post-Soviet transition on Muslim women of Central Asia. Among her related works is the co-edited volume, Post-Soviet Women Encountering Transition: Nation Building, Economic Survival, and Civic Activism (2004). Kuehnast holds a Ph.D. in socio-cultural anthropology from the University of Minnesota. Her master’s degree in education is from the University of St. Thomas. Learn more about USIP's Gender and Peacebuilding Center!
Publications:
- Women and War: Power and Protection in the 21st Century, co-editor with C. de Jonge Oudraat and H. Hernes (U.S. Institute of Peace, 2011).
- "Why Women's Involvement in Peacebuilding Matters," (Foreign Service Journal, April 2011).
- "The Other Side of Gender: Including Masculinity Concerns in Conflict and Peacebuilding," (co-author with N. Sudhakar) U.S. Institute of Peace - Peace Brief (U.S. Institute of Peace, 2011).
- "Gender Matters: Power and Peacebuilding," co-author with Nina Sudhakar, Gender and Peacebuilding Peace Watch (U.S. Institute of Peace, 2010).
- "Whose Rules Rule? Everyday Border and Water Conflicts in Central Asia,” Kuehnast et al., Social Development Series (The World Bank, 2008).
- "Community Driven Development in the Context of Conflict-Affected Countries: Challenges and Opportunities," Kuehnast et al., Social Development Series (The World Bank, 2006).
- Analyzing Social Capital in Context: A Guide to Using Qualitative Methods and Data, co-author with N. Dudwick, V. Nyhan Jones, and M. Woolcock (The World Bank, 2006).
- Community Driven Development in the Context of Conflict-Affected Countries: Challenges and Opportunities, co-author with N. Ahmed, J. De Berry and D. Owen (The World Bank, 2006).
- Post-Soviet Women Encountering Change: Nation Building, Economic Survival, and Civic Activism, co-edited with C. Nechemias (Johns Hopkins Press and Woodrow Wilson Press 2004).
- Better a Hundred Friends than a Hundred Rubles? Social Networks in Transition ?The Kyrgyz Republic, co-author with N. Dudwick (The World Bank, 2004).
- "Does the future for Central Asian Women lie in the Past? An Overview of Current Gender Trends in the Region," in Middle Eastern Women on the Move. Edited by A. Bertone and H. Esfiandiari (Woodrow Wilson International Center Press, 2003).
- "Poverty Shock: The Impact of Rapid Economic Change on the Women of the Kyrgyz Republic," in When Things Fall Apart: The Study of Poverty in the Former Soviet Union, 1993-1999. Edited by N. Dudwick, E. Gomart, A. Marc, and K. Kuehnast (The World Bank, 2002).
- "Building Cooperation in Post-Conflict Areas: Rwanda Community Reintegration and Development Project" Social Development Notes, No. 59 (The World Bank, 2001).
- "Coming of Age in Post-Soviet Central Asia: Dilemmas and Challenges Facing Youth and Children," Demokratizatsiya (Vol. 8, 2000).
- A Generation at Risk: Children in the Central Asia Republics of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, co-author with A. Bauer, N. Boschmann, and D. Green (The Asian Development Bank, 1998).
- Women and Gender Relations: The Kyrgyz Republic in Transition, co-author with A. Bauer and D. Green (The Asian Development Bank, 1997).
Publications & Tools
September 2012
For the past two years, USIP has been deeply engaged in supporting a government’s initiative on women, peace and security. The U.S. Department of State and the USAID recently issued detailed implementation plans to carry forward the U.S. National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security. Issue Areas: Gender and Peacebuilding
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July 2012
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Olive Branch Post
by Kathleen Kuehnast
Last week’s news about an Afghan woman executed publicly after being accused of adultery created outrage around the world, from the top commander in Afghanistan, Gen. John Allen, to the Australian Minister of Foreign Affairs. President Hamid Karzai called for the arrest of the killers, said by the U.S. and Afghan officials to be members of the Taliban. Kathleen Kuehnast takes a look at the horrific killing of the woman as well as the broader issue of Afghan women in transition. |
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July 2012
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News Feature
by Kathleen Kuehnast and Manal Omar
Kathleen Kuehnast, director of the Center for Gender and Peacebuilding and Manal Omar, director, of the Iraq, Iran and North Africa Program, discuss a recent meeting in Istanbul with Afghan and Iraqi women leaders to map out practical steps forward for women in their own transitional countries.
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May 2012
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News Brief
by Steven Ruder
The co-director of the Academy Award-winning documentary “Saving Face” stresses the importance of telling the stories of ordinary individuals who courageously speak out against human rights abuses. |
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March 2012
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News Feature
by Tara Sonenshine
The Commonwealth of Virginia continues to expand as a center of innovation for peacebuilding activities to strengthen the capabilities of the U.S. military and civilian corps to work together around the world. Across Virginia, from the Pentagon to the peacebuilding academies, from workshops at universities to grants to practitioners, USIP is working closely to build partnerships. Countries: United States
| Issue Areas: Conflict Analysis and Prevention, Education, Mediation and Facilitation, Post-Conflict and Peacekeeping Activities, Training
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March 2012
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Special Report
by Kathleen Kuehnast, Manal Omar, Steven E. Steiner, and Hodei Sultan
Despite years of efforts aimed at expanding women’s rights and opportunities in Iraq and Afghanistan, women in those countries face major obstacles in consolidating these gains. Recognizing that women’s empowerment contributes significantly to stability, USIP convened experts to assess what has been learned in developing women’s programs in Afghanistan and Iraq and to establish best practices for future programs in conflict zones. |
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March 2012
At the end of a week that included renewed fighting in Syria, USIP focuses on the roles and challenges of women and minorities in the Syrian Uprising and the broader national security issues at stake for America and the world. This program is part of the Institute’s commitment to conflict management, training and peacebuilding in Syria and around the world. Countries: Syria
| Issue Areas: Conflict Analysis and Prevention, Mediation and Facilitation, Political Reform, Post-Conflict and Peacekeeping Activities
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January 2012
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On the Issues
by Kathleen Kuehnast and Brooke Stedman
Gender and Peacebuilding Center Director, Kathleen Kuehnast, discusses USIP's focus on women's equality in 2011 and looks ahead at the gender projects USIP will work on in 2012. |
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January 2012
USIP experts look back at 2011 and ahead to 2012 on the Two Sudans, Afghanistan, Pakistan, the Arab/Israeli conflict, gender issues, and more. |
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December 2011
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News Feature
by Thomas Omestad and Steven Ruder
In a historic change in how the U.S. government approaches peacebuilding in conflicts abroad, President Barack Obama on Dec. 19 signed an executive order creating a U.S. National Action Plan on Women, Peace, and Security—an initiative that Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton described as “a comprehensive roadmap for accelerating and institutionalizing efforts across the United States government to advance women’s participation in making and keeping peace.” |
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December 2011
Rep. Donna Edwards, Democrat of Maryland, and others spoke at USIP on the importance of rebuilding Haiti and the role women should play. |
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May 2011
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On the Issues
by Kathleen Kuehnast
Following President Obama's speech on the Middle East, USIP's Kathleen Kuehnast examines how gender plays an important role in peacemaking and prosperity, and the influential role women are playing in the Arab Spring. Countries: Africa, Egypt, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Tunisia, Yemen
| Issue Areas: Conflict Analysis and Prevention, Gender and Peacebuilding, Political Reform
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April 2011
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Book
by Kathleen Kuehnast, Chantal de Jonge Oudraat, and Helga Hernes, editors
In consideration of U.N. Resolution 1325 (which called for women’s equal participation in promoting peace and security and for greater efforts to protect women exposed to violence during and after conflict), this volume takes stock of the current state of knowledge on women, peace and security issues, including efforts to increase women’s participation in post-conflict reconstruction strategies and their protection from wartime sexual violence. Issue Areas: Gender and Peacebuilding
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January 2011
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Peace Brief
by Kathleen Kuehnast and Nina Sudhakar
Over the past year, USIP’s Gender and Peacebuilding Center of Innovation has hosted a series of events entitled “The Other Side of Gender." This series of events, which sought to broaden the gender lens and create a more nuanced research agenda, have greatly informed this Peace Brief. Issue Areas: Gender and Peacebuilding
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January 2011
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Peace Brief
by Brooke Stedman
This report is based on views expressed during an August 31, 2010, event, “Security after the Quake? Addressing Violence and Rape in Haiti,” hosted by the U.S. Institute of Peace’s Gender and Peacebuilding Center and the Haiti Working Group. |
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December 2010
USIP experts look back at 2010 and ahead to 2011 on Afghanistan, Pakistan, the Arab/Israeli conflict, gender issues, and more and look at how to manage international conflict, terrorism, violence, and instability around the world. Countries: China, Iran, Israel and the Palestinian Territories, Korean Peninsula, Nigeria, Pakistan, United States
| Issue Areas: Conflict Analysis and Prevention, Gender and Peacebuilding, Media, Conflict, and Peacebuilding, Mediation and Facilitation, Negotiation and Diplomacy, Political Reform, Post-Conflict and Peacekeeping Activities, Religion and Peacemaking
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December 2010
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News Feature
by Kathleen Kuehnast
Kathleen Kuehnast, USIP gender expert and director of USIP's new Gender and Peacebuilding Center of Innovation, looks at what the Center will focus on in 2011 and looks back on gender and peacebuilding in 2010. Issue Areas: Gender and Peacebuilding
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April 2010
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Peace Brief
by Anjalee Kohli, Kathleen Kuehnast, Leonard Rubenstein
The challenges of effectively addressing sexual and gender-based violence in war torn communities are daunting. This Peace Brief describes the pivotal role the health sector can play, obstacles to its exercising these needed functions, and steps that can be taken to contribute to developing support for survivors as part of an integrated approach. Issue Areas: Gender and Peacebuilding, Health and Peacebuilding
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January 2010
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Peace Brief
by Robert M. Perito and Members of USIP's Haiti Team
USIP assesses the damage done by the devastating earthquake, and recommends strategies for Haiti’s recovery and reconstruction. |
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March 2009
Over the past 15 years, USIP has supported over 90 projects related to women, conflict, and peacebuilding. From grants to fellowships, from training to education, from working groups to publications, the Institute strives to encourage more practice and scholarly work on women, and seeks to deepen understanding of the role of women in conflict and in peace. |
Events
June 5, 2012
The U.S. Institute of Peace, in collaboration with Vital Voices Global Partnership and the Royal Norwegian Embassy, explored the kinds of leadership that are most effective in societies undergoing upheaval and/or transition. Women leaders from Liberia, Pakistan, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Samoa and Mexico offered compelling accounts of their innovative leadership approaches in two sessions at USIP on June 5. These women, who have just been recognized as the 2012 honorees of the annual Vital Voices Global Leadership Awards, are leading change in their transitioning societies through civil society, political activities, and private business. Countries: Egypt, Liberia, Mexico, Pakistan, Samoa, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Yemen
| Issue Areas: Gender and Peacebuilding
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May 22, 2012
On May 22 USIP hosted a special screening of the Oscar-winning documentary “Saving Face,” followed by a conversation with filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy on the documentary, and more broadly on the state of Pakistan’s women and how acid attack violence presents an opportunity for a greater role for women in addressing Pakistan’s challenges. Countries: Pakistan
| Issue Areas: Conflict Analysis and Prevention, Gender and Peacebuilding, Human Rights
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May 21, 2012
USIP’s Center for Gender and Peacebuilding, in collaboration with Kate Spade New York and Women for Women International, convened experts to explore the impact of private business and civil society partnerships on women's empowerment in the post-conflict contexts of Afghanistan, Bosnia and Rwanda. Countries: Afghanistan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Rwanda
| Issue Areas: Economics and Conflict, Gender and Peacebuilding, Post-Conflict and Peacekeeping Activities
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March 9, 2012
As the Syrian uprising enters its second year, uncertainty about the challenges confronting women and minorities looms especially large. Women have played a critical role throughout the uprising, with activists like Suhair al-Attasi, Razan Zaitouneh, and others emerging as leaders of protest and resistance to the Assad regime. Yet their contributions have often been overshadowed. Questions persist about whether women’s concerns and perspectives will be fully addressed, either in the current uprising or in a potential post-Assad Syria. How can Syrian women ensure that their voices are heard as the revolution unfolds and a new Syria takes shape? |
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February 16, 2012
The Embassy of Finland and USIP hosted a panel discussion titled "Women, Peace, and Security in Afghanistan: Prospects on the Way Forward." The discussion offered a timely follow-up to the International Afghanistan Conference held in Bonn in December 2011. The panelists representing the governments of Afghanistan, Finland and the United States, as well as Afghan civil society examined ways to better ensure an active role for women in the current peace processes and reconstruction efforts. |
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January 19, 2012
The U.S. Institute of Peace, in collaboration with the Institute for Inclusive Security, hosted a panel of experts to examine the ways in which diverse civil society actors, including youth and women, as well as the media, religious and business communities, confront real conflicts with collaborative problem-solving approaches. |
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December 6, 2011
On December 6, the U.S. Institute of Peace facilitated a discussion featuring two women NGO leaders from Iraq whose USIP-supported projects enable them to promote positive participatory roles for women as peacebuilders and provide mechanisms and strategies to combat discrimination and violence against women in Iraq. Countries: Iraq
| Issue Areas: Conflict Analysis and Prevention, Gender and Peacebuilding, Political Reform
| Programs: Grant Program
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November 29, 2011
On November 29, 2011, the U.S. Institute of Peace hosted a panel of distinguished experts who discussed the situation of women in Haiti and their role in reconstruction. The event featured a delegation of women leaders from Haiti and an exhibition of photos taken by Haitian women depicting their lives in the tent cities around Port-au-Prince. |
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October 25, 2011
USIP, in collaboration with the Institute for Inclusive Security, USAID, and Vital Voices, hosted a discussion with Ambassador Swanee Hunt and USAID’s Deputy Administrator Donald Steinberg on lessons emerging from the Bosnia conflict with a particular focus on the best ways to ensure a direct role for women in peacebuilding efforts worldwide. In addition, film producer Abigail Disney and film director Pamela Hogan presented their PBS documentary, “I Came to Testify,” that describes how a group of 16 women from Bosnia, victims of the war’s systematic rapes, broke through political and societal silence by stepping onto the witness stand at an international tribunal. |
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October 5, 2011
Hosted by Congressman Russ Carnahan, and co-hosted by the Office of Senator John Kerry and the Office of Senator Barbara Boxer, the U.S. Institute of Peace, Fork Films, the Institute for Inclusive Security, and Vital Voices, collaborated on the pre-screening and panel discussion of the new film, "Peace Unveiled" on October 5, 2011 at the Congressional Visitors Center Theater in Washington, DC. Countries: Afghanistan
| Issue Areas: Gender and Peacebuilding, Political Reform, Security Sector Reform/Governance
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September 13, 2011
The U.S. Institute of Peace, in collaboration with the Office of Congressman Russ Carnahan, Fork Films, and the U.S. Civil Society Working Group on the National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security, hosted a viewing of the film, “Pray the Devil Back to Hell” on September 13, 2011 at the Congressional Visitors Center Theater in Washington, DC. Countries: Africa, Liberia
| Issue Areas: Gender and Peacebuilding, Political Reform, Post-Conflict and Peacekeeping Activities
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July 19, 2011
On July 19, USIP held a full day conference that explored transformations inside North Korea that have significant implications for the regime and the U.S.’s North Korea policy. A group of Seoul-based North Korean defectors spoke at the conference and shared their unique experiences and operational insights from conducting business in the informal markets.
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June 1, 2011
For this second annual conference on conflict prevention, USIP brought together experts and policymakers to discuss challenges and opportunities for conflict prevention around the world. The goals of this conference were to spotlight the importance of prevention, discuss specific challenges facing prevention efforts, and identify priority areas for USIP's future work on conflict prevention. Issue Areas: Conflict Analysis and Prevention
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May 23, 2011
Violent wars disrupt the social fabric of communities and impose severe limitations for women’s economic access during and after conflict. Nevertheless, women entrepreneurs in war-torn societies are reshaping the business landscape and stretching beyond the micro-lending niche. The U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP), in partnership with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), hosted a public event focused on women and their understudied yet significant entrepreneurial activities underway in conflict and post-conflict societies. Countries: Afghanistan, Africa
| Issue Areas: Economics and Conflict, Gender and Peacebuilding, Post-Conflict and Peacekeeping Activities
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May 5, 2011
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May 6, 2011
The U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP), Peace Research Institute-Oslo (PRIO), and Royal Norwegian Embassy hosted a book launch and international symposium on the next decade of UNSCR 1325 on the afternoon of May 5th and all day on May 6th. The symposium further examined the issues of women and war, power and protection in the 21st century, and explored the implementation of gender-sensitive policies in defense, diplomacy, development, and the role of documentary film, media and the arts in this endeavor. |
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February 16, 2011
How are the roles of "soldier" and "victim" defined by post-conflict programs? Most disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration (DDR) programs are limited in the ways in which issues specific to female combatants are addressed. At this public event panelists examined the particular challenges faced by female ex-combatants in post-conflict environments, and ways in which reintegration agencies and post-conflict programs can integrate gender into their work. Countries: Colombia, Nepal, Sierra Leone
| Issue Areas: Gender and Peacebuilding, Mediation and Facilitation, Rule of Law, Security Sector Reform/Governance
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January 19, 2011
The U.S. Institute of Peace, in partnership with Partners for Democratic Change, hosted a public event on January 19th highlighting the challenges faced by militaries in the 21st century regarding the role of women in modern armed forces and how to bring authentic gender mainstreaming into the military. Additionally, panelists discussed the role that civil society can play in security sector transformation, especially as it pertains to gender. Countries: Africa, Senegal
| Issue Areas: Gender and Peacebuilding, Security Sector Reform/Governance
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November 3, 2010
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November 5, 2010
In October 2000, the United Nations Security Council passed landmark Resolution 1325 on women, peace, and security, which linked women’s experiences of conflict to the international peace and security agenda, acknowledging their peacemaking roles as well as the disproportionate impact of violent conflict on women. Ten years later, the U.S. Institute of Peace co-hosted a three-day Women and War conference focused on the varied experiences of women during wartime and how to make sustained progress toward international peace and security. The event featured an extraordinary coalition of national and international participants, including U.N. and U.S. government officials, the international diplomatic communities, military personnel, academics, civil society leaders, and practitioners in the fields of security, development, and conflict resolution. Countries: Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Haiti, Iran, Iraq
| Issue Areas: Arts and Peacebuilding, Conflict Analysis and Prevention, Education, Gender and Peacebuilding, Human Rights, Media, Conflict, and Peacebuilding, Negotiation and Diplomacy, Post-Conflict and Peacekeeping Activities, Rule of Law, Security Sector Reform/Governance
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October 26, 2010
Sports have been used as a way to build trust, teamwork and social cohesion from the international to the neighborhood level for thousands of years. Scholars and advocates alike assert that it can also serve to improve security, reintegrate traumatized populations, break down stereotypes and reconcile torn societies and groups in the context of violent conflict. On October 26, 2010, USIP held a symposium Tuesday addressing the impact of sports and peacebuilding. |
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September 27, 2010
How do we know we are on track when it comes to post-conflict stabilization and reconstruction? How do we know that our military, diplomatic and development interventions are working? These experts believe that one key indicator when gauging success is women’s participation and access to the political, economic and social arenas. Countries: Afghanistan, Iraq
| Issue Areas: Gender and Peacebuilding, Post-Conflict and Peacekeeping Activities
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August 31, 2010
Despite efforts by the Haitian government, the international community and local activists, women and girls are being raped in some 1,300 makeshift camps, often by armed attackers. What steps are being taken to address crime and protect against rape in Haiti? What lessons can be learned for future post-disaster humanitarian responses? |
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August 17, 2010
In an effort to bring the youth voice to the policy conversation, this panel event featured perspectives from members of the Kyrgyz and Uzbek youth diaspora, as well as from young scholars who have researched the role of social media in conflict and peacebuilding, including the role of youth diaspora groups. Countries: Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan
| Issue Areas: Media, Conflict, and Peacebuilding, Youth and Peacebuilding
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August 2, 2010
This panel discussion addressed the challenges posed by Afghan reintegration and reconciliation, particularly for Afghan women. The panel also discussed how women may contribute to the reintegration and reconciliation process. Countries: Afghanistan
| Issue Areas: Post-Conflict and Peacekeeping Activities
| Programs: Jennings Randolph Senior Fellowship Program
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July 27, 2010
USIP conducted a working meeting to discuss the ten year anniversary of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1325, which focused on women's leadership in peacemaking and conflict prevention. Panelists discussed its history, lessons and experiences of the last ten years, why it is still relevant, and how to move forward implementing its vision. Issue Areas: Gender and Peacebuilding
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July 21, 2010
A panel of experts shared their perspectives on effective policies and faith-based initiatives to curb civilian rape of women in Eastern DRC. |
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July 13, 2010
This event celebrated the publication of Youth in Post-Conflict Reconstruction: Agents of Change by Stephanie Schwartz published by the U.S. Institute of Peace. Using three cases of post-conflict reconstruction—Mozambique, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Kosovo—this study goes beyond the well documented cases focused exclusively on child soldiers to examine the roles of the broader youth population and their impact on the reconstruction process. The panelists drew on their own experiences working with youth in conflict zones to distill best practices in addressing youth needs in areas of conflict and pinpointed what issues must be resolved as we look to the future. Countries: Africa, Asia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Europe, Ireland, Israel and the Palestinian Territories, Kosovo, Mozambique, Rwanda, Sierra Leone
| Issue Areas: Post-Conflict and Peacekeeping Activities, Youth and Peacebuilding
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July 8, 2010
This public event concludes a two-day symposium on women's approaches and work to build peace. With an emphasis on the roles of religion, meeting participants will reflect with a broader audience on their conclusions, concerns and ideas for making their work for peace more effective. A reception will follow at 5 p.m. Issue Areas: Gender and Peacebuilding, Religion and Peacemaking
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June 28, 2010
This event is being organized by USIP in coordination with the State Department’s Office of the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization (S/CRS) and USAID’s Office of Conflict Management and Mitigation (CMM), as a forum of experts, policy and program shapers to engage in broader discussions about evolving dynamics in Kyrgyzstan, and possible areas for the international community to constructively engage to prevent further violence and safeguard a peaceful transition. |
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June 8, 2010
The launch and discussion of the new USIP Special Report "Rape in War: Motives of Militia in DRC" by Jocelyn Kelly. |
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May 18, 2010
A Workshop with Leading Researchers and Practitioners on Conflict and Gender Countries: Belize, Congo, Republic of the, Sierra Leone, Uganda
| Issue Areas: Gender and Peacebuilding, Youth and Peacebuilding
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April 15, 2010
The new Women in International Security (WIIS) "Progress Report on Women in Peace and Security Careers: U.S. Executive Branch" is the first report to examine women's representation and career experiences in international security in the U.S. government sector. A panel of USIP and WIIS experts will discuss the report's implications and the next steps to fulfilling its recommendations.
Issue Areas: Gender and Peacebuilding
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March 23, 2010
Please join us for a presentation of sustainable business models for post-conflict societies, including a case example of Prosperity Candle which targets women entrepreneurs by providing them with kits and training in candle production for domestic and export markets. Other small enterprise models also discussed within the context of the greater economic challenges facing women during and after conflict. Countries: Afghanistan, Iraq
| Issue Areas: Economics and Conflict, Gender and Peacebuilding, Post-Conflict and Peacekeeping Activities
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March 11, 2010
A discussion with a panel of the Vital Voices 2010 Global Leadership Award winners. The leaders chosen this year represent diverse backgrounds and countries including Pakistan, Brazil, Kenya, Bahrain, and Afghanistan. The panel discussed innovative and creative strategies toward peacebuilding from the grassroots level to regional initiatives. Read a little about the panelists in the event summary. Issue Areas: Economics and Conflict, Gender and Peacebuilding
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March 2, 2010
A distinguished panel of experts discussed the current movements in Iran today, many of which are led by women, and also reflected upon the past three decades of the shifting status of women in Iran. |
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February 18, 2010
The Other Side of Gender series addresses wartime sexual violence by taking into account male gender issues. |
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February 17, 2010
This meeting will address the obstacles to integrating the health sector into preventing and responding to gender-based violence in conflict, and how they can be overcome. Issue Areas: Gender and Peacebuilding, Health and Peacebuilding
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January 28, 2010
What specific and unique contributions do women make throughout the security sector? How can military, police, and policy communities can enable their participation? How can troops not only protect women from sexual and other violence, but acknowledge and engage them as critical resources to fulfilling mission mandates? A panel will discuss these questions as well as potential human rights-based arguments to convince local partners of the importance of including a gender lens to security efforts. Issue Areas: Gender and Peacebuilding, Security Sector Reform/Governance
| Programs: Faculty and Curriculum Development
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January 21, 2010
A panel will offer views about the Bosnian reluctance to engage in civil society as a part of the peacebuilding process, and the role women have played in moderating extremism in their divided country. The speakers will present examples of several specific initiatives and offer their own recommendations on how the international community can support their efforts to stabilize their country. |
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January 15, 2010
A panel of experts will discuss how programs and policies addressing gender-based violence must take into account male gender issues. Their expertise draws upon significant field work experience in both Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. They will consider the practitioner challenges toward understanding and engaging men and boys in finding sustainable solutions to gender-based violence in zones of conflict. Countries: Congo, Republic of the, Rwanda
| Issue Areas: Gender and Peacebuilding
| Programs: Jennings Randolph Senior Fellowship Program
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October 8, 2009
The political and socio-cultural position of women in Afghanistan is in transition, particularly in the urban areas of the country. Advances have been made to include women in peacebuilding efforts, as noted by the recently adopted Constitution that grants equal rights for men and women, and as more and more women engage in entrepreneurial activities. Countries: Afghanistan
| Issue Areas: Economics and Conflict, Education, Gender and Peacebuilding, Rule of Law
| Programs: Additional USIP Fellows
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July 15, 2009
Nearly a decade ago with the adoption of Security Council Resolution 1325, the United Nations and member states made a commitment to promote the participation of women in decision-making levels in conflict resolution and peace processes, expand the role and contribution of women in UN field-based operations, and to integrate gender perspectives and training into peacekeeping. Where are we now, what has worked, what has not worked, and why? The panelists will address these questions on women as peacekeepers, and other policy-related questions. Countries: Haiti
| Issue Areas: Education, Gender and Peacebuilding, Post-Conflict and Peacekeeping Activities, Security Sector Reform/Governance
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June 11, 2009
Countries: Africa
| Issue Areas: Gender and Peacebuilding
| Programs: Grant Program, Grants & Fellowships, Jennings Randolph Peace Scholarship Dissertation Program
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