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  • February 25, 2010   |   Event
    Haiti: Six Weeks Later

    Six weeks after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake devastated Port-au-Prince, what are the top priorities for donors and for Haiti? What role will the United States play in the coming weeks, months, and perhaps years?

  • February 22, 2010   |   Course
    Engaging With Identity-Based Differences

    Outlines strategies and distinctive challenges for third-party mediators and other advisors, including countering hate speech and exclusionary policies, engaging religious and tribal leaders, establishing trust through intergroup dialogues, and other measures. Recommended for practitioners whose peacebuilding work requires them to work with religious, ethnic, tribal and minority groups.

  • February 8, 2010   |   Course
    Social Reconstruction and Human Security

    This course explores challenges and opportunities for successful humanitarian assistance and longer-term needs for social well-being and development in fragile states. Drawing upon case studies of peace operations and peacebuilding efforts, students analyze the links between social well-being—particularly public health, education, environmental protection and refugee needs—and security, governance, rule of law and economic development as well as explore the relationship between reconciliation and social well-being.

  • January 25, 2010   |   Course
    Introduction to Post-Conflict Strategies and Operations

    A 'hands on' course that provides students with a guiding principles for organizing and implementing post-conflict and stability operations based upon desired end-states commonly accpeted by the peacebuilding community. The course will focus on the critical issues that confront post-conflict interventions and the overarching leadership challenges involved in manthese objectives.

  • January 22, 2010   |   Resource
    Haiti After the Earthquake

    USIP assesses the damage done by the devastating earthquake, and recommends strategies for Haiti’s recovery and reconstruction.

  • January 21, 2010   |   Event
    Demystifying the Origin of Creative Breakthroughs

    Tatushi Arai, author of Creativity and Conflict Resolution: Alternative Pathways to Peace, challenges the notion that creativity is a rare quality with which only a few gifted individuals are born and demystifies the origin of unthinkable breakthroughs for conflict resolution. With his extensive international experience as a mediator and trainer, Arai will enliven the discussion with case studies and stories from around the world.

  • January 19, 2010   |   Event
    Haiti after the Earthquake

    This discussion at the Inter-American Dialogue examined the damage that has been done to Haiti and its people by the January 12th earthquake and the challenges the country now confronts.

  • January 15, 2010   |   Event
    Can We Prevent The Next War?

    The enormous human and financial costs of current conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, Sudan, and elsewhere have prompted renewed attention to our ability to prevent conflicts from becoming violent. USIP brought together leading thinkers on the concepts, tools and strategies for preventing wars instead of fighting them. 

  • January 14, 2010   |   Resource
    International Engagement with Somalia

    The United States Institute of Peace held a public event in December 2009 to examine how current international policy is affecting the situation in Somalia, and how different policy approaches could promote better governance and help to stabilize this highly volatile situation.

  • December 24, 2009   |   Resource
    Establishing Leadership on Civilian Assistance to Afghanistan

    USIP's Alex Thier and Bill Taylor argue why leadership of civilian assistance is necessary for success in Afghanistan, and lay out the best options to move forward.

  • December 9, 2009   |   Event
    International Engagement with Somalia

    Serious and contentious questions surround the issue of how the international community should relate to Somalia. Should major support be given to the Transitional Federal Government? Should the African Union peacekeeping force be expanded?

  • September 30, 2009   |   Event
    The Road Ahead: Strategies for Improving U.S. - Islamic Relations

     H.E. Ihsanoglu discussed OIC projects contributing to peacemaking and assessed the prospects of advancing U.S. - Islamic relations.

  • September 18, 2009   |   Resource
    Preventing Violent Conflict

    How well does the international community work to prevent the outbreak of new wars? In a special report, "Preventing Violent Conflict: Assessing Progress, Meeting Challenges," USIP's Lawrence Woocher examines the current status of conflict prevention as an international norm and argues for enhanced global attention on conflict prevention strategy relative to more reactive responses, such as post-conflict rebuilding and resolving existing conflicts.

  • August 27, 2009   |   Resource
    Beyond Emergency Responses in the Democratic Republic of Congo

    The deadly conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo has claimed the lives of millions and appears to have no end.  A new USIP report provides context to this protracted war, assesses current approaches and presents new options on how to resolve it.

  • August 21, 2009   |   In the Field
    Notes from Sudan

    Ahead of the country's critical 2011 referendum on whether the South should secede from Sudan, USIP is dedicated to help resolve internal conflicts and help ensure the country's future stability and security. In "Notes from Sudan," USIP's Jon Temin writes about his recent tour of the country to get an update on the status of the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) that ended decades of civil war in Sudan and learn about preparations for the 2011 referendum and the 2010 national elections.