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Updated: August 27, 2008

The United States Institute of Peace is an independent, nonpartisan institution established and funded by Congress. Its goals are to help prevent and resolve violent international conflicts, promote post-conflict stability and development, and increase conflict management capacity, tools, and intellectual capital worldwide.

The Institute does this by empowering others with knowledge, skills, and resources, as well as by directly engaging in peacebuilding efforts around the globe.

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Depoliticizing Zimbabwe’s Economy

An unidentified man carries some cash for groceries in Harare, Zimbabwe in March 2008. That month, the Zimbabwean currency tumbled to a record 25 million dollars for a single U.S. dollar.

Zimbabwe is saddled with two million percent annual price increases, rampant corruption and pervasive unemployment. Experts believe that an effort to reform the country's political corruption and irresponsible monetary policies will be central to establishing social and economic stability in the long run.

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Managing a Mediation Process

In this new book, authors Amy L. Smith and David Smock capture lessons learned from USIP's quarter-century of involvement in this field. The chapters cover conflict assessment, ensuring mediator readiness, ensuring conflict ripeness, Track I mediation, Track II dialogue and constructing a peace agreement.
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Settling Kenya's Internally Displaced

This briefing by Sheila Mwiandi explores various dimensions of Kenya's post-election IDP problems, including elections-related issues prior to 2008, challenges to relocating IDPs and strategies for improving the situation.
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Negotiating Across Cultures

This book explores how cross-cultural communication has affected U.S. negotiations with Japan, China, Egypt, India, Mexico and others. A must-read for anyone interested in international negotiation, the author makes specific recommendations for improving negotiation outcomes in cross-cultural settings.
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USIP Headquarters Project

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Practitioner Toolkit

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Education and Training Center

One of the Institute's congressional mandates is to "serve the people and the government through the widest possible range of education and training...to promote international peace and the resolution of conflicts..." The Education and Training Center's mission is to help fulfill this mandate.