Rule of Law
Latest from USIP on Rule of Law
- May 14, 2013 | Publication
A deputy in Tunisia’s National Constituent Assembly takes on criticisms from Human Rights Watch as the country considers a third draft of its constitution.
- May 13, 2013 | Publication
Andrew Wilder and Moeed Yusuf assess the turnout and results of the first Pakistan election in which a civilian government recognized as democratically elected completed a full term and will hand over to another democratically elected civilian administration.
- May 13, 2013 | Publication
What should the relationship between governments and the international community be with armed groups, and how might that connection be managed responsibly? USIP Senior Fellow Bruce Oswald explores the matter and the challenges involved.
- May 13, 2013 | Publication
At the midpoint between presidential elections in Nigeria, the country’s leaders need to take stock of the conflict resolution mechanisms in place to deal with the political divide between north and south, Muslim and Christian, and to prevent electoral violence in 2015. Depending on how it contributes to regional balance, power sharing, and perceptions of fair play, the coming phase of party coalition building may well determine future national stability.
- May 10, 2013 | Publication
In the wake of a United Nations report on atrocities committed at the end of last year by Congolese government soldiers and M23 rebels, USIP Jennings Randolph fellow Carla Ferstman sees a disconnect between the U.N.’s human rights standards for host government forces and those set for militaries that participate in its own peacekeeping contingents.
- May 9, 2013 | Event
On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the United States Institute of Peace (USIP), the ICRC, and InterAction invite you to a launch of the revised Professional Standards for Protection Work.
- May 6, 2013 | Course
Learn how to develop effective strategies for establishing stable institutions and a robust civil society, including how to address the interplay among issues of corruption, accountability, rule of law, elections, political party development, public administration, and economic reconstruction in divided societies.
- May 2, 2013 | Publication
Afghanistan’s 2009 elections are often viewed as extremely fraudulent and as having produced an illegitimate outcome. However, despite many challenges, the 2009 elections were in some ways a success, and produced a legitimate outcome that adhered to the constitution and the country’s electoral laws. There is an opportunity now, before the 2014 elections in Afghanistan, to learn from these elections.
- April 26, 2013 | Publication
Zimbabwean human rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa discusses her struggle to defend peace activists, opposition candidates, journalists and ordinary citizens arrested and prosecuted by the government of Robert Mugabe.
- April 22, 2013 | In the Field
A two-day workshop in southern Burma led by USIP’s Colette Rausch illustrated the fundamental questions facing the country’s government and civic leaders in an environment of rapid political and economic change.
- April 17, 2013 | Publication
Counterterrorism efforts, including strikes at suspected militants by unmanned U.S. drone aircraft, are worsening already damaged relations between tribal areas of Pakistan and the country’s central government, and the approach should be rethought, a leading scholar of Islamic studies said recently at USIP.
- April 16, 2013 | Publication
Recognizing that lack of access to justice in Afghanistan was a serious problem that helped fuel insurgency, the international community launched an array of programs to research and actively support informal justice mechanisms. In some cases, these efforts hampered local dispute resolution. This study finds that the best approaches fostered an environment for local political change that strengthened linkages between formal and informal participants in the justice system.
- April 9, 2013 | Publication
A year after a political compromise ended popular protests in Yemen, the transitional government has met some benchmarks for reform. However, key demands for improved security and government services, for example, remain stalled. This report studies security and justice conditions in four governorates to assess how transition is progressing.
- April 5, 2013 | Publication
A neighborhood’s piles of trash or high dropout rates in schools may not seem like the most obvious topics for improving justice and security. But two communities in Iraq are demonstrating that establishing real justice and security means going beyond the standard discussions.
- March 29, 2013 | Publication
Leaders of Sierra Leone, Senegal, Malawi and Cape Verde explain their approaches to governing to achieve stability and economic development during a discussion at USIP. The group visited Washington as part of the Obama administration’s efforts to promote examples of good governance and economic growth in Africa.