Publications & Tools
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This report compares the results of parallel research projects carried out among impoverished, nonelite youth in postconflict Rwanda and Burundi. Arguing that the plight and priorities of nonelite youth should be of serious national and international concern, particularly in countries that have unusually youthful populations that are overwhelmingly poor and undereducated, it finds striking differences between the groups, with a significantly bleaker picture for youth in Rwanda. Countries: Africa, Burundi, Rwanda
| Issue Areas: Education, Post-Conflict and Peacekeeping Activities, Youth and Peacebuilding
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Pandemics and Peace examines disease surveillance networks of the Mekong Basin, Middle East, and East Africa to answer to interrelated questions: Why is interstate cooperation in an area of national vulnerability occurring among countries with a history of conflict? How do public-private networks deliver transnational public goods (health), and what factors facilitate or impede effective and legitimate transnational governance? |
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In many peace negotiations International Contact Groups have been a helpful tool in preventing a peace process from stalling or failing. Members, commonly states and international organizations, exert leverage on the parties to the conflict, sustain the parties’ commitment to a peaceful resolution of the conflict and restore mutual trust. |
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USIP's Army Fellow, Col. John Maraia discusses the impact of Osama bin Laden's death on al-Qaida and U.S. counter-terrorism activities. Countries: Afghanistan, Pakistan
| Issue Areas: Conflict Analysis and Prevention, Religion and Peacemaking
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Senior Fellow Michael Bratton compares political transitions in Sub-Saharan African to the current uprisings and demonstrations calling for political change in the Middle East and North Africa. Countries: Africa, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia
| Issue Areas: Conflict Analysis and Prevention, Political Reform
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This report reviews the challenges facing returning refugees and internally displaced persons after protracted conflict, questioning the common wisdom that the solution to displacement is, in almost all cases, to bring those uprooted to their places of origin, regardless of changes in the political, economic, psychological, and physical landscapes. Countries: Afghanistan, Africa, Asia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Burundi, Europe, Iraq
| Issue Areas: Post-Conflict and Peacekeeping Activities
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On Tuesday, February 22, 2011 the U.S. Institute for Peace, the Esquel Group, and the International Institute for Sustained Dialogue co-hosted a roundtable discussion on “Violence and Reconciliation at the Community Level.” This invitation-only discussion explored the complexity and challenges of not only defining reconciliation, but also of evaluating and determining what processes and outcomes constitute successful reconciliation. Issue Areas: Post-Conflict and Peacekeeping Activities
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In this Peace Brief, Belgian scholars analyze the current political crisis in Belgium from a conflict resolution perspective. Countries: Belgium
| Issue Areas: Economics and Conflict, Mediation and Facilitation, Political Reform
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Dr. Jok Madut Jok, a Jennings Randolph Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace who is currently on leave from the Institute to serve as Undersecretary in the Government of Southern Sudan's Ministry of Culture and Heritage, discusses Sudan's referendum. |
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Israel is and remains a deeply divided society of some 5.6 million Jews and some 1.2 million Palestinian-Arab citizens. Sammy Smooha, a 2009-10 Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace addresses attitudes and the divisions surrounding the Arab-Israeli conflict. |