Publications & Tools
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The U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) has awarded a grant to The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health to support a pathbreaking effort to systematically track attacks on health care workers and facilities in Burma—creating an analytical tool that ultimately can be used globally and that should become a foundation for efforts to prevent such attacks and promote accountability for those perpetrating them. |
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As leaders at the G-8 summit highlight the importance of food security for global stability, Ibrahim Shaqir, an interagency professional in residence at USIP, in an interview examines this issue in the contexts of Afghanistan and Pakistan and how agricultural systems might contribute to peacebuilding. |
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With the National Academy of Engineering, the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) on May 1 hosted a workshop with specialists in and out of government on “Adapting Agricultural Extension to Peacebuilding.” |
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USIP hosted a briefing for an American commander deploying to the Horn of Africa. |
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USIP's Moeed Yusuf discusses the U.S.-Pakistani relationship and how important it is to lower the temperature of the rhetoric between the two countries. |
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The monthly Haiti Newsletter provides updates on the current situation, highlights of USIP's field work, events, multimedia, publications, and news about Haiti. |
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Civilian health, health care workers, and health facilities disproportionately suffer in countries experiencing severe instability, but global health donors have yet to make developing health systems in such states a priority. Doing so could both make populations healthier and contribute to state legitimacy. Countries: Afghanistan, Iraq, Liberia, Nepal, Somalia, The Two Sudans, Zimbabwe
| Issue Areas: Health and Peacebuilding, Post-Conflict and Peacekeeping Activities
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Security experts gathered at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) on Dec. 1 to address the question of who—amid rapid global change--has the responsibility, will and capacity to provide security in a variety of conflicts and problems around the world. The event marked the release of Rewiring Regional Security in a Fragmented World, a 20-chapter volume drawing on contributions from numerous security specialists. Countries: Libya, Philippines
| Issue Areas: Conflict Analysis and Prevention, Economics and Conflict, Gender and Peacebuilding, Health and Peacebuilding, Human Rights
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People living in the DRC should band together with Congolese diaspora to develop a vision for DRC’s future that can drive governance reform. In this Special Report, diaspora leaders share ideas for invigorating the economy, judiciary, health, education, and democracy. Countries: Africa, Democratic Republic of Congo
| Issue Areas: Economics and Conflict, Education, Health and Peacebuilding, Political Reform, Rule of Law
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Somalia is currently experiencing the worst drought and famine in over half a century. Half of the population (close to four million people) is dependent on food aid, while tens of thousands are estimated to have died since the drought began this past summer. Countries: Africa, Somalia
| Issue Areas: Conflict Analysis and Prevention, Health and Peacebuilding, Human Rights, Rule of Law
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