Economics and Conflict
Latest from USIP on Economics and Conflict
- September 17, 2012 | Course
Learn how to formulate economic instruments within a strategic framework for economic development in vulnerable and conflict-affected states, using case studies and simulations set in Kosovo, Haiti, and Sudan.
- September 7, 2012 | Publication
There are many ways businesses can and do promote peace in conflict zones, but smart strategies will take into account the firms’ size, ownership, industry, and the degree to which they are connected to local supply chains.
- September 4, 2012 | Publication
Raymond Gilpin, USIP's Center for Sustainable Economies director, discusses how a USIP project to analyze the vulnerability of energy infrastructure in fragile, resource-rich countries could inform policy-making and strengthen efforts to secure peace.
- August 8, 2012 | Publication
USIP’s Raymond Gilpin and Brett Boor examine how conflict minerals are a symptom – and not the cause – of the continued instability in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
- August 7, 2012 | Publication
Sudan and South Sudan reached a deal recently over the fees South Sudan would pay to Sudan to move oil from the oil-rich South through Sudan to northern ports, ending a contentious period in which both sides appeared to be far apart from each other about how to pay the fees.
- August 7, 2012 | Publication
USIP's Sudan program director, Jon Temin, discusses the recent oil deal between Sudan and South Sudan.
- July 25, 2012 | Publication
If Burma’s recent political reforms are to continue, they must be underpinned by “tangible, equitable and sustained economic progress,” writes USIP’s Raymond Gilpin in a new blog post on the International Network for Economics and Conflict (INEC).
- July 24, 2012 | Publication
A key divide in Nigeria is that between citizens who are deemed indigenous and those who arrived more recently. This new report says the government must do better to hold accountable those who commit indigene-settler violence and to foster greater equality in the land, education, infrastructure, and government job savailable to both groups.
- July 17, 2012 | Publication
Confirmation of a new prime minister by Haiti’s parliament provides an opportunity to rectify previous missteps and begin moving Haiti toward a peaceful and prosperous future.
- July 17, 2012 | Publication
USIP’s Center for Sustainable Economies hosts a taskforce on business and peace, which explores creative and effective ways in which the corporate sector could avoid fomenting conflict while being aware of actions that could promote peace. This report contributes to the work of the task force by using a conflict-sensitive framework to address this issue.
- June 15, 2012 | Publication
Pakistan faces an acute energy crisis that it cannot fix by domestic policy alone. Instead, it will need to rely on regional cooperation. How Pakistan pursues its regional options will either increase competition among its neighbors or strengthen regional ties.
- June 1, 2012 | Publication
This forthcoming volume will publish in September 2012 and is available for pre-order.
Creating sound economic policy and a stable macroeconomic framework is essential to societies recovering from violent conflict, yet few practitioners have the background needed to apply economic concepts effectively. To provide practitioners with a concise but broad overview of macroeconomic fundamentals as they touch on violence afflicted states, Brauer and Dunne have created Peace Economics. Filling a gap in the literature on peace design from an economic perspective, Peace Economics extends beyond economic principles into the wider realm of social reconstitution, social contract, and social capital in the hopes of helping practitioners build a more stable peace.
- May 22, 2012 | Event
In recent decades, civil wars have caused more deaths than any other form of organized mass violence. Between 2000 and 2010, an extraordinary 90 percent of civil wars were recurrences of earlier wars, according to the World Bank’s 2011 World Development Report. This event will bring together experts on civil war, the success of post-war peace agreements, and deeply divided societies to discuss the key elements that contribute to the success or failure of post-civil war peace.
- May 21, 2012 | Event
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.
- May 17, 2012 | Publication
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.