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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
Over the past several decades, dozens of countries have established truth commissions and other bodies to investigate mass atrocities or systematic human rights abuse. Lessons learned from past truth-finding processes are invaluable to help address the legacies of human rights violations in countries transitioning to democratic regimes in the Middle East and North Africa and elsewhere.
Countries: Afghanistan, Colombia, Iraq, Libya, Nepal, Tunisia, Zimbabwe
| Issue Areas: Post-Conflict and Peacekeeping Activities, Rule of Law
The fragile power-sharing deal between Zimbabwe’s political parties is close to breaking down. Michael Bratton, a Jennings Randolph senior fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace, discusses the latest stalemate. This Peace Brief is based on press monitoring and interviews in Harare, Zimbabwe, Washington, D.C., and elsewhere between May and October 2010.
Countries: Zimbabwe
| Issue Areas: Conflict Analysis and Prevention, Political Reform, Security Sector Reform/Governance
This team designs the Institute’s efforts to prevent the outbreak of violent conflict, conducting relevant analysis of countries and regions at risk, developing tools for effective prevention, and supporting training and education efforts.
Featured Initiatives: Arab Awakening | Congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture of the United States | Quadrennial Defense Review Independent Panel | United States-United Nations Forum
May 29, 2012
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June 1, 2012
Stemming electoral violence in transition and fragile environments requires understanding the broader landscape of the conflict and how that conflict is managed. This course will examine specific cases from important 2011-2012 elections to analyze how electoral violence was prevented or mitigated through effective strategic planning and policymaking.
Analyzing nineteen cases, Framing the State in Times of Transition offers the first in-depth, practical perspective on the implications of constitution-making procedure, and explores emerging international legal norms.
Countries: Afghanistan, Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Brazil, Cambodia, Colombia, Eritrea, Fiji, Hungary, Iraq, Namibia, Nicaragua, Poland, South Africa, Spain, Timor Leste, Uganda, Venezuela, Zimbabwe
| Issue Areas: Post-Conflict and Peacekeeping Activities, Rule of Law
Commission of Inquiry: Zimbabwe Commission of Inquiry into the Matabeleland Disturbances
Duration: 1983 – 1984
Charter: No charter available
Commissioners: 4
Report: No official report; unofficial NGO report
June 25, 2002
Countries: Zimbabwe
What are the national, regional and international consequences of recent electoral violence in Zimbabwe? What triggered the outbreak? Read more from Senior Research Associate Dorina Bekoe.
Countries: Zimbabwe
| Issue Areas: Conflict Analysis and Prevention, Negotiation and Diplomacy, Rule of Law
