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  • November 18, 2011   |   Publication
    Security Sector Transformation in North Africa and the Middle East

    International efforts to help Arab transition countries with security reform must be driven by country requests, involve many partners, and be tied to broader aims for justice, stability, and economic development.

  • October 7, 2011   |   Event
    What Next?: The Palestinian U.N. Bid, Israel and Options for the U.S.

    On September 23, President Mahmoud Abbas submitted an application to the U.N. Secretary-General for Palestine's admission as a full state member of the United Nations. What is needed to move the peace process forward? Is the diplomatic track in sync with the Palestinian state-building effort? What are the options for U.S. policy.

  • September 9, 2011   |   Publication
    Brimmer Rejects Criticisms of U.N. at USIP Event

    Taking on congressional critics of the United Nations, a senior State Department official told an audience at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) on September 7 that the Obama administration’s multilateral diplomacy at the U.N. has bolstered U.S. security but that “backwards” calls to cut or further restrict U.S. funding for the world body, if enacted, would harm U.S. global influence.

  • September 1, 2011   |   Publication
    Senior Official to Discuss U.N. Policies at USIP

    The need for collaborative, multilateral action at the United Nations and on global problems is growing, but so are the budgetary pressures on the U.S. government’s foreign affairs spending. That collision of factors provides the context for a scene-setting address at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) by Esther Brimmer, the assistant secretary of State for International Organization Affairs.

 

Separation barrier in front of Israeli settlement (Credit: Lucy Kurtzer-Ellenbogen/USIP)

Throughout a period of marked deterioration in Arab-Israeli relations over the past decade, USIP has continued to dedicate its team’s unique set of knowledge- and skill-based resources and relationships to a balanced and comprehensive approach to the conflict.  It achieves this through policy-relevant analysis; innovative peace-oriented programming; cooperation and partnership with local organizations and initiatives; educational training; specialized publications; and the support of outside research and projects through a highly selective grants program.  While work on the Arab-Israeli conflict falls primarily under the Institute’s Center for Mediation and Conflict Resolution, our approach is an integrated one, drawing Institute-wide on research, education, grantmaking, fellowships, and professional training programs. 

As such we aim to:

  • Advise the policy community on the role that the U.S. and the international community can have in influencing the Arab-Israeli conflict and on how to apply leverage to advance a peace process.
  • Assess and address the dynamics of the conflict with emphasis on how the actions and attitudes of political groups, key civil society actors, and the Israeli and Palestinian publics affect efforts to initiate and sustain a peace process.
  • Cultivate relationships within and between key sectors of Arab and Israeli society in a manner that creates an atmosphere supportive of improved relations and peaceful resolution of conflict.
  • Explore the religious dimensions of the conflict, particularly religion’s role as a mobilizing force in the politics of the region, and empower key actors, such as religious leaders and local nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), to use religion as an instrument of peacemaking.

Learn about USIP's Recent Projects and Initiatives on the Palestinian Territories

Access multimedia from USIP's recent conference, Twenty Years After Madrid: Lessons Learned and the Way Forward

Learn about USIP's work in Israel
 

 

(Photo at Right: Separation barrier in front of Israeli settlement. Credit: Lucy Kurtzer-Ellenbogen/USIP.)

 

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Multimedia

  • Watch the USIP event "Online Discourse in the Arab World: Dispelling the Myths"
  • Listen to USIP's Scott Lasensky on NPR discussing the 2010 Israeli-Palestinian peace talks
  • Watch the USIP event "Middle East Peace: Who leads and who succeeds?" and learn about The Sadat Lectures: Words and Images on Peace, 1997-2008," edited by Shibley Telhami.
  • Listen to Len Rubenstein, director of USIP's Heath and Peacebuilding Initiative, on how heath can be a bridge to peace in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
  • Listen to the USIP event Engaging "Hamas: Risks and Opportunities"
  • Listen to former U.S. ambassador to Israel Samuel W. Lewis discuss the Middle East peace process

 

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