Conflict Analysis and Prevention
Latest from USIP on Conflict Analysis and Prevention
- September 27, 2012 | Publication
The U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) and the non-profit Partnership for a Secure America (PSA) on September 27 held the first meeting in their “Congressional Briefing Series--Topics on International Conflict Resolution and Prevention.”
- September 26, 2012 | Publication
David R. Smock, USIP's senior vice president for the Centers of Innovation and director of Religion and Peacemaking Center, discusses the threat of Boko Haram and the threat it poses to security in Nigeria.
- September 25, 2012 | Publication
Frances Z. Brown and William Byrd, two of USIP's Afghanistan specialists, discuss the challenges facing Afghanistan in transitioning to full national control over its security and domestic affairs as international military activity and other assistance wind down.
- September 24, 2012 | Publication
Countries transitioning to democracy must change old models of organizing the police, armed services, and intelligence services, which typically were characterized by mistreatment of the public, for models that stress transparency, accountability, and citizen involvement. Yet each new government in the Middle East and North Africa must tailor its reforms carefully and patiently in order to avoid backlash among security services.
- September 24, 2012 | Course
Participants in the workshop will explore these approaches and practices, debate their utility, and consider opportunities for future innovation in the conflict prevention field.
- September 17, 2012 | Publication
Manal Omar, USIP director of Iraq, Iran, and North Africa Programs, reflects on the attack in Benghazi and the Libyan civil society activists that came together to protest the violence.
- September 12, 2012 | Publication
The U.S. civilian and military surge in Afghanistan aimed at transforming local governance, but it fell short because the strategy assumed that progress on security and governance would go hand in hand and that bottom-up progress would be reinforced by the national government. Going forward, the international community should focus on a few key governance issues to address and use the Strategic Partnership Agreement as a vehicle for long-term planning.
- 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 12, 2012 | Publication
Contrary to some views, Afghanistan has been and can be governed effectively and be politically stable. But history indicates that overly ambitious and rushed modernization efforts are likely to face sharp domestic reactions that can set development back, sometimes for decades.
- 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.