Publications & Tools
In the Field. In the Classroom. Online.
 |
The Institute’s Academy for International Conflict Management and Peacebuilding, in collaboration with Future Generations Graduate School, has begun teaching peacebuilding to international development practitioners in courses that have been conducted online as well as in India and Kenya. The new USIP role addresses an often unmet need: practical education in peacebuilding for people working in community development. |
 |
Gabe Salmon, 2011-2012 National Peace Essay Contest State-level Winner from Arizona, shares his experiences during awards week in Washington, DC. |
 |
The "Mass Atrocity Prevention and Response Options Tabletop Exercise," held June 12 and 13 at USIP, brought together key government agencies for an exercise designed to build relationships between agencies and help participants become more comfortable with planning for a potential mass atrocity in the fictional country of Atropia. Issue Areas: Mediation and Facilitation, Political Reform, Training
|
 |
USIP's Nadia Gerspacher explains why U.S. and other NATO advisers are so important in places like Afghanistan and how we can make sure they’re ready to hit the ground running. Countries: Afghanistan
| Issue Areas: Negotiation and Diplomacy, Political Reform, Post-Conflict and Peacekeeping Activities
|
 |
USIP trained hundreds of African peacekeepers in seven nations this year in how to negotiate and mediate the peace. |
 |
The Strategic Economic Needs and Security Exercise (SENSE), a state-of-the-art computer-facilitated simulation that teaches peacebuilding and negotiating skills, has helped more than 1,650 Iraqis in government, nongovernmental organizations and academia learn collaborative and decision-making skills that should directly strengthen their efforts to advance development and manage conflicts in a country until recently torn by war and still facing terrorist strikes. |
 |
National winners were announced by Dr. Richard Solomon, president of USIP, at the conclusion of a week-long program for the individual state winners in Washington, DC. |
 |
The Olive Branch is the U.S. Institute of Peace blog. It features analysis and in the field reporting from USIP experts and guest bloggers highlighting the Institute's commitment to stability and security. Countries: Afghanistan, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Korean Peninsula, Libya, Pakistan, Syria, The Two Sudans
|
 |
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. Issue Areas: Economics and Conflict
|
 |
A close partnership between USIP and a Sudanese organization over the past seven years is strengthening USIP programming in a key African country that has been torn by conflict--and helping to build a vibrant civil society organization where few have prospered previously. Countries: Sudan
| Issue Areas: Conflict Analysis and Prevention, Post-Conflict and Peacekeeping Activities, Training
|