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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 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.

  • December 10, 2009   |   Event
    Prospects for Haiti's New Government

    On November 10, the Haitian government confirmed Jean-Max Bellerive as its sixth Prime Minister since 2004.  What does this change portend for Haiti's future?  How are the international community and diaspora responding to this change?

  • December 9, 2009   |   Resource
    What Next for the Democratic Republic of Congo?

    USIP summarizes ways the Congolese diaspora can help resolve the long-running conflict in the DRC, and their recommendations to improve conditions in the country.

  • November 23, 2009   |   Event
    Displacement in Colombia

    With more than four million internally displaced Colombians- an average of more than a quarter of a million people annually in recent years- and almost half a million more forced to flee across national borders in search of safety, Colombia now ranks just behind Sudan in the numbers of people displaced by the conflict.  Women, youth, Afro-Colombians, and indigenous communities have been disproportionately affected by the conflict and by the displacement it causes.

  • August 6, 2009   |   Resource
    Scenarios for Sudan: Avoiding Political Violence Through 2011

    More political violence will be hard to avoid in Sudan, barring a quick change in current trends, according to a new USIP report. Much of the outcome hinges on the handling of issues that involve the 2011 referendum on whether the South secedes from Sudan.

  • July 14, 2009   |   Event
    Colombia: Building Peace in a Time of War
  • June 23, 2009   |   Resource
    Iraq Beyond 2011: Remarks by Deputy Minister Rafe Al-Eissawi

    Iraq’s Deputy Prime Minister, Rafe Al-Eissawi, on June 10 spoke at a public event at the Institute to deliver his primary message: the U.S. and Iraq need “to move from [a military-based] relationship towards the strategic framework relationship.” 

     

  • May 6, 2009   |   Event
    Haiti: Will Diplomats and Donors Bring Economic Recovery?

    Haiti has received unprecedented diplomatic attention this year, with visits from the UN Secretary General, Secretary of State and former President Clinton, and the UN Security Council. The April 14 international donors' conference yielded $324 million in new pledges. The Senate elections saw little violence, but low turnout. Has Haiti reached a genuine turning point?

  • December 19, 2008   |   Event
    Coming Home: The Challenge of Return for Iraq’s Displaced

    A public event co-sponsored with the International Organization for Migration

  • August 1, 2008   |   Resource
    Moving Beyond Relief: The Challenges of 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.

  • July 30, 2008   |   Resource
    Reconciliation in Iraq

    Daniel Serwer participated in a briefing session sponsored by Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey (D-CA) and Congressman Chris Shays (R-CT) on reconciliation progress in Iraq and USIP’s programs there. Serwer was joined by representatives from the Congressional Research Service and the Government Accountability Office.

  • July 10, 2008   |   Resource
    On the Issues: 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.