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The U.S. Institute of Peace launched the Public-Private Alliance for Responsible Minerals Trade, a joint initiative by the Department of State and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), on November 15, 2011. In collaboration with USIP’s Center for Sustainable Economies the initiative is part of a coordinated effort to reduce trade in conflict minerals in the Eastern Congo and the Great Lakes region of Africa. |
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On November 18, USIP hosted Ambassador Maleeha Lodhi, former Pakistani Ambassador to the U.S. and High Commissioner to the U.K., for a talk on Pakistan’s present state and future prospects. |
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Over the last six months, Iran has witnessed an escalating power struggle as conservatives of different ideological stripes and loyalties jockey for influence ahead of the March 2012 parliamentary elections. On November 18, USIP hosted a distinguished panel of experts on these and other developments on the elections in Iran. |
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In the closing session of the Twenty Years After Madrid conference, former National Security Advisors Zbigniew Brzezinski and Stephen Hadley discussed the current foreign policy challenges the United States faces in addressing the Arab-Israeli conflict and their views of the road ahead. |
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The question of Syria’s future looms large for policymakers and analysts concerned with the outlook of Arab-Israeli peacemaking. This panel of experts addressed the current uncertainty in Syria, potential outcomes and the implications for the regional environment. |
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The popular uprisings that began sweeping through the Arab world earlier this year will have significant implications for peacemaking between Arab countries and Israel. This panel explored the challenges and opportunities the parties are now faced with, as well as whether the shifting regional climate will make peace agreements between Israel and its Arab neighbors more or less likely. |
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This panel explored the impact of regional and external identity politics on the peace process and the challenges of bringing publics on board. Topics discussed included the role of religion and religious identity on Israeli and Palestinian political dynamics, challenges to the notion of religion as a necessary “spoiler,” internal divisions within Israeli and Palestinian societies, and the of shifting trends of regional public opinion. |
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For this panel, the below group of experts examined the role of economic reforms in moderating political tensions in the West Bank and discussed what needs to be done to ensure the institution building process continues. They also discussed progress in the West Bank as compared to the situation in Gaza and whether there are better practices that international donors could employ on the ground in the West Bank. |
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This panel of experts and former advisors explored the assumed outline of a future peace agreement and the impact that time and circumstances on the ground has had on these assumptions over the years. Additionally, the panelists discussed the implications of the Palestinian bid for statehood at the United Nations. |
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To mark USIP's Religion and Peacemaking program's ten-year anniversary, USIP hosted a workshop to reflect on what the wider field of religious peacebuilding has achieved and how best to move forward over the next decade. |