The United States Institute of Peace (USIP) was established by Congress in 1984 as an independent, federally-funded national security institution devoted to the nonviolent prevention and mitigation of deadly conflict abroad.
The United States Institute of Peace (USIP) was established by Congress in 1984 as an independent, federally-funded national security institution devoted to the nonviolent prevention and mitigation of deadly conflict abroad.
Rice, Flynn, Graham, Kerry Offer Agendas at 'Passing the Baton'
USIP Experts on Afghanistan, State Fragility, Nigeria and the Middle East
Tracking the Highlights of USIP’s 'Passing the Baton' Transition Conference
National security aides from the incoming, outgoing and previous administrations held private discussions January 9 that found a broad point of consensus: The United States must lead more, not less,...
Solving real problems in difficult places
The violence of extremists—and the chaos they spawn—takes place in towns, villages, streets and homes, not along some far-off...
Secretary of State John Kerry and National Security Advisor Susan Rice and designated incoming National Security Advisor Michael...
Relations between India and Pakistan are becoming less predictable as nationalist sentiments in India heighten political pressure...
One after another, the women told their stories: the stigma, the repeated questioning by officials, the police anti-terrorism...
Last month, police arrested 25 people for allegedly planning synchronized terrorist attacks in Kosovo and Albania, including...
The likelihood that South Sudan will descend into genocide and mass starvation is growing by the day, say diplomats, advocates...
The Islamic State may be crumbling across Iraq, but the future prospects of violent extremist groups are far from fading. While...
Nine months after the Central African Republic (CAR) held free, peaceful and democratic elections for president and parliament,...
Last month, two female suicide bombers killed 24 people in northeast Nigeria. In September, Paris police arrested three women for...
In 2003, the women of Tononoka, an ethnically and religiously diverse neighborhood in Mombasa, Kenya, organized security to...
As the United States prepares for a transition to a President Donald Trump administration, what might be the future of America’s...
The Lebanese Parliament’s selection this week of General Michel Aoun as president ends 2 ½ years of a leadership vacuum that...
Preparing the next generation of peacebuilders
In the Field. In the Classroom. Online.
The Academy for International Conflict Management and Peacebuilding is the education and training leader of the U.S. Institute of Peace.
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Ambassador Donald Booth is completing almost two and half years as the U.S. special envoy for Sudan and South Sudan.
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Take on the roles of mediators and conflict parties in simulations and role-plays, as you learn what it takes to structure a successful mediation effort, as well as what a third party needs to do w
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Over 15 years, nearly half of all people, 3.34 billion, have suffered from political violence or lived under its...
Applying creative solutions to international conflict
Arthur Brooks, an economist and musician who is president of the American Enterprise Institute, said the cause of the...
At USIP’s Passing the Baton conference, former Obama administration officials Michéle Flournoy and Jacob Sullivan...
When ABC News’ Martha Raddatz asked four national security thinkers to list top priorities for the new administration,...
The next administration is sure to face unforeseen and disruptive crises such as unknown diseases, natural disasters or...
Senator Lindsey Graham said President-elect Donald Trump needs to understand that foreign assistance is a critical tool...
At the center of the “Passing the Baton 2017” conference, National Security Advisor Susan Rice and her successor,...
Secretary of State John Kerry contested what he called “revisionist commentary” about the Obama administration’s...
The national security advisors to President Barack Obama and President-elect Donald Trump stood shoulder-to-shoulder on...
Seven weeks past an election that stirred talk of U.S. isolationism, national security aides from the incoming,...
As Donald J. Trump prepares for his inauguration as president on Jan. 20, he and his incoming foreign policy team face...
Eastern Aleppo’s last traumatized residents waited prayerfully this weekend for bus rides to join the most massive...
The elections this year in the Philippines, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon and even the United States,...