Publications & Tools

February 2012

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.

January 2012 | On the Issues by Kathleen Kuehnast and Brooke Stedman

Gender and Peacebuilding Center Director, Kathleen Kuehnast, discusses USIP's focus on women's equality in 2011 and looks ahead at the gender projects USIP will work on in 2012.

March 2011

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.

April 2009

Recognizing the need to promote peace and minority rights in this conflict-ridden country, on March 23rd and 25th the Institute hosted a group of 17 young Sri Lankan professionals as part of a State Department professional exchange program in conjunction with NGO Relief International. Relief International’s Sri Lanka office selected the participants.

Countries: Sri Lanka
March 2002
Countries: Sri Lanka
February 2002
Cover. (Image: U.S. Institute of Peace)
April 1997 | by Chetan Kumar

Analysts have raised the possibility of increased turbulence in the world system as the flow of information becomes democratized, as information becomes broadly available outside previously narrowly defined areas of expertise, and hence, as hierarchies tumble. Others have focused on the impact on military security of the increasingly sophisticated means available to both rival states, as well as groups that challenge states, for changing and disrupting the flows of information and the information systems on which modern militaries are so heavily dependent.

Credit: CIA World Factbook
January 1995

Commissions of Inquiry: Commissions of Inquiry into the Involuntary Removal or Disappearance of Persons
Duration: 1995 – 2000
Charter: Presidential Proclamations
Commissioners: 3 for each commission (in total 11 commissioners)
Report: Public reports

 

Countries: Asia, Sri Lanka | Issue Areas: Rule of Law
December 1993 | Book by David Little

The Invention of Enmity

Countries: Sri Lanka | Issue Areas: Conflict Analysis and Prevention