Publications & Tools

Framing the State front book cover
April 2010 | Book by Laurel E. Miller, with Louis Aucoin

Analyzing nineteen cases, Framing the State in Times of Transition offers the first in-depth, practical perspective on the implications of constitution-making procedure, and explores emerging international legal norms.

September 2007
Countries: Eritrea
September 2006 | Book by Mohammed O. Maundi, I. William Zartman, Gilbert M. Khadiagala, Kwaku Nuamah

This penetrating study of successful mediation in a half-dozen violent conflicts across the African continent focuses on a hitherto neglected dimension of mediation and the motivations of the parties in conflict—and of the mediators themselves—in initiating the mediation option.

Political Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa - SR 140 (Image: USIP)
May 2005 | Special Report by David Dickson
Terrorism in the Horn of Africa - SR 113 (Image: USIP)
January 2004 | Special Report by Tim Docking
Countries: Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia
U.S. Leadership in Resolving African Conflict - SR 74 (Image: USIP)
September 2001 | Special Report by John Prendergast

John Prendergast was part of the facilitation team behind the two-and-a-half-year U.S. effort to broker an end to the war between Ethiopia and Eritrea. This report is the final installment of a five-part series on African conflicts, the previous four of which were also published by the Institute as Special Reports during Prendergast's tenure as an Institute executive fellow.

September 2001
December 2000
Countries: Eritrea, Ethiopia
Building for Peae in the Horn of Africa - SR 50 (Image: USIP)
June 1999 | Special Report by John Prendergast