Youth

USIP grantee Dr. Boroujerdi will present the findings of his study on the Iranian political elite at this USIP and Wilson Center co-sponsored event.

Despite the challenges facing the next generation of Iraqis, many Iraqi youth are generally positive about their futures. This event will consider some of the ways these young people are contributing to their communities, with a particular focus on USIP's work with Iraqi youth and partners in education, media and civil society sectors. 

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.

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.

The notion that an excess of male youth in a population leads to social unrest, war and terrorism is widespread.  Jennings Randolph Senior Fellows Marc Sommers and Matt Venhaus agree that demographic factors can impact the stability and security of countries, but they caution against making easy causal linkages between the two. Instead, they argue that our understanding of why and how young men become violent or extremists is limited and often misguided. Hence many national and international policies and programs that attempt to deal with these two issues have little effect or - worse - are counterproductive.

Participants explore the analytical links between economic activity and conflict as well as the practical constraints and rewards of using economic instruments of conflict management. Case studies and simulations set in Kosovo, Haiti, and Sudan encourage participants to formulate economic instruments within a strategic framework for economic development in vulnerable and conflict-affected states.

A new USIP report examines online discourse in the Arab world and emerging trends of the blogosphere.

The Asia Foundation will release findings from its fifth public opinion poll, "Afghanistan in 2009: A Survey of the Afghan People," the most comprehensive survey conducted in all 34 of Afghanistan’s provinces.