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  • January 19, 2012   |   Publication
    The Arab Awakening and its Aftermath: How to Shape the Path Ahead

    USIP's Steven Heydemann moderates a discussion about the Arab Awakening with the Institute's Stephen Hadley and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace's Marwan Muasher.

  • January 18, 2012   |   Event
    A Year of Turmoil

    In May, President Obama defined the Arab Spring as a “historic opportunity” to redefine and strengthen America’s relationships in the Middle East, demonstrating that “America values the dignity of the street vendor . . . more than the raw power of the dictator.” One year after the “Jasmine Revolution” in Tunisia, has the promise of the Arab Awakening been realized? Please join former national security adviser Stephen Hadley and former Jordanian foreign minister Marwan Muasher on Wednesday, January 18, as they lead an analysis and discussion of what the Arab Awakening means for 2012.

  • January 6, 2012   |   Publication
    Global Change, Peacebuilding and USIP

    USIP leaders explain the effect that events around the world and here at home will have on the U.S., and the contributions the Institute can and does make during a time of tremendous challenge – and opportunity.

  • January 6, 2012   |   Publication
    From Nigeria to Iraq: USIP Mediation in Conflicts

    In a period of tremendous change in parts of the world, we are asking USIP leaders, from board members to senior staff and experts, to explain the effects that events abroad and here at home will have on the United States, and the contributions the Institute can and does make. David Smock is currently the senior vice president for USIP’s Centers of Innovation.

 

Separation barrier in front of Israeli settlement (Credit: Lucy Kurtzer-Ellenbogen/USIP)

Throughout a period of marked deterioration in Arab-Israeli relations over the past decade, USIP has continued to dedicate its team’s unique set of knowledge- and skill-based resources and relationships to a balanced and comprehensive approach to the conflict.  It achieves this through policy-relevant analysis; innovative peace-oriented programming; cooperation and partnership with local organizations and initiatives; educational training; specialized publications; and the support of outside research and projects through a highly selective grants program.  While work on the Arab-Israeli conflict falls primarily under the Institute’s Center for Mediation and Conflict Resolution, our approach is an integrated one, drawing Institute-wide on research, education, grantmaking, fellowships, and professional training programs. 

As such we aim to:

  • Advise the policy community on the role that the U.S. and the international community can have in influencing the Arab-Israeli conflict and on how to apply leverage to advance a peace process.
  • Assess and address the dynamics of the conflict with emphasis on how the actions and attitudes of political groups, key civil society actors, and the Israeli and Palestinian publics affect efforts to initiate and sustain a peace process.
  • Cultivate relationships within and between key sectors of Arab and Israeli society in a manner that creates an atmosphere supportive of improved relations and peaceful resolution of conflict.
  • Explore the religious dimensions of the conflict, particularly religion’s role as a mobilizing force in the politics of the region, and empower key actors, such as religious leaders and local nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), to use religion as an instrument of peacemaking.

Learn about USIP's Recent Projects and Initiatives on the Palestinian Territories

Access multimedia from USIP's recent conference, Twenty Years After Madrid: Lessons Learned and the Way Forward

Learn about USIP's work in Israel
 

 

(Photo at Right: Separation barrier in front of Israeli settlement. Credit: Lucy Kurtzer-Ellenbogen/USIP.)

 

Recent Publications

 

Multimedia

  • Watch the USIP event "Online Discourse in the Arab World: Dispelling the Myths"
  • Listen to USIP's Scott Lasensky on NPR discussing the 2010 Israeli-Palestinian peace talks
  • Watch the USIP event "Middle East Peace: Who leads and who succeeds?" and learn about The Sadat Lectures: Words and Images on Peace, 1997-2008," edited by Shibley Telhami.
  • Listen to Len Rubenstein, director of USIP's Heath and Peacebuilding Initiative, on how heath can be a bridge to peace in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
  • Listen to the USIP event Engaging "Hamas: Risks and Opportunities"
  • Listen to former U.S. ambassador to Israel Samuel W. Lewis discuss the Middle East peace process

 

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