Publications & Tools
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Experts on nonviolent peacekeeping presented their methodologies, lessons learned, and the way forward for the innovative field at the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) on March 21, 2012. Countries: Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico, Nepal, Syria
| Issue Areas: Conflict Analysis and Prevention, Mediation and Facilitation
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The role of the Navy and Marine Corps is critical to the growing importance of the Asia Pacific region in national security strategy. Recently, conflict management and peacebuilding experts from the U.S. Institute of Peace participated in the Navy’s biggest amphibious exercise in a decade, Bold Alligator, as part of USIP’s expansion of civilian-military cooperation and training. Countries: Afghanistan, Korean Peninsula, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, United States
| Issue Areas: Conflict Analysis and Prevention, Mediation and Facilitation, Post-Conflict and Peacekeeping Activities, Training
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Civilian health, health care workers, and health facilities disproportionately suffer in countries experiencing severe instability, but global health donors have yet to make developing health systems in such states a priority. Doing so could both make populations healthier and contribute to state legitimacy. Countries: Afghanistan, Iraq, Liberia, Nepal, Somalia, The Two Sudans, Zimbabwe
| Issue Areas: Health and Peacebuilding, Post-Conflict and Peacekeeping Activities
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Over the past several decades, dozens of countries have established truth commissions and other bodies to investigate mass atrocities or systematic human rights abuse. Lessons learned from past truth-finding processes are invaluable to help address the legacies of human rights violations in countries transitioning to democratic regimes in the Middle East and North Africa and elsewhere. Countries: Afghanistan, Colombia, Iraq, Libya, Nepal, Tunisia, Zimbabwe
| Issue Areas: Post-Conflict and Peacekeeping Activities, Rule of Law
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USIP leaders explain the effect that events around the world and here at home will have on the U.S., and the contributions the Institute can and does make during a time of tremendous challenge – and opportunity. Countries: Afghanistan, Africa, Colombia, Egypt, Haiti, Iran, Iraq, Israel and the Palestinian Territories, Korean Peninsula, Lebanon, Libya, Nepal, Pakistan, Sudan, The Two Sudans, United States
| Issue Areas: Conflict Analysis and Prevention, Education, Media, Conflict, and Peacebuilding, Negotiation and Diplomacy, Political Reform, Post-Conflict and Peacekeeping Activities, Rule of Law, Training
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Two seasoned NGOs engage nonstate combatants on international human rights law to get them to change behaviors, from eliminating use of landmines to protecting civilians. Their work can inform and complement other attempts at engagement. Countries: Afghanistan, Colombia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Libya, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Palestinian Territories, United States, Yemen
| Issue Areas: Mediation and Facilitation, Negotiation and Diplomacy, Political Reform, Rule of Law, Security Sector Reform/Governance
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Countries emerging from conflict will never achieve either security or justice unless civil society and security agencies learn to work together. This report describes a new approach to promoting dialogue and cooperation that has enabled the Nepal Police and local communities to bridge the gulf of mistrust and together start tackling crime and instability. This approach is now being customized to work in other war-torn societies. |
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The U.S. Institute of Peace has unveiled a pathbreaking survey of attitudes toward the police, justice and rule of law in politically troubled Nepal, an effort that could help guide reforms needed to tame the violence and corruption plaguing the Himalayan nation’s young democracy. |
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The United States Institute of Peace’s Truth Commissions Digital Collection is part of the Margarita S. Studemeister Digital Library in International Conflict Management. The collection contains profiles of truth commissions and substantive bodies of inquiry from nations worldwide - offering general background information on the composition of each body, links to the official legislative texts establishing such commissions, and each commission's final reports and findings. Countries: Africa, Algeria, Asia, Brazil, Burundi, Chad, Congo, Republic of the, El Salvador, Europe, Germany, Ghana, Haiti, Kenya, Liberia, Montenegro, Morocco, Nepal, Nigeria, Panama, Paraguay, Rwanda, Serbia, Sierra Leone, South Africa, South America, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Timor Leste, Uganda, Uruguay
| Issue Areas: Conflict Analysis and Prevention, Human Rights, Post-Conflict and Peacekeeping Activities, Rule of Law
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This path-breaking volume presents broad guidelines and specific prescriptions for combating serious crime in societies emerging from conflict. |