In the Field
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January 2012
On the eve of the one-year commemoration of Egypt’s uprising, U.S. Institute of Peace fellow Robin Wright spent ten days in Cairo interviewing the new spectrum of political players, from the protesters camping out at Tahrir Square to the new Muslim Brotherhood and Salafi Members of Parliament as well as former al-Jihad extremists released from decades in jail. Countries: Egypt
| Issue Areas: Human Rights, Political Reform, Rule of Law, Youth and Peacebuilding
| Programs: Jennings Randolph Senior Fellowship Program
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May 2011
The April 2011 elections in Nigeria marked a pivotal period for the country. The European Union dubbed the tumultuous 2007 elections “the worst they had seen anywhere in the world.” Given this, there were concerns that the 2011 elections would follow the same path. Read about how USIP helped Nigeria by developing and implementing a comprehensive approach to reducing and preventing violence associated with elections. Countries: Nigeria
| Issue Areas: Conflict Analysis and Prevention, Education, Training, Youth and Peacebuilding
| Programs: Academy for International Conflict Management and Peacebuilding
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February 2011
The Institute's work is not always visible because it seeks to protect the people it works with in conflict zones. USIP Executive Vice President outlines USIP's work in a few of the regions you care about. Countries: Afghanistan, Africa, Colombia, Haiti, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan
| Issue Areas: Conflict Analysis and Prevention, Economics and Conflict, Education, Human Rights, Media, Conflict, and Peacebuilding, Mediation and Facilitation, Negotiation and Diplomacy, Political Reform, Post-Conflict and Peacekeeping Activities, Religion and Peacemaking, Rule of Law, Science, Technology, and Peacebuilding, Security Sector Reform/Governance, Training, WMD, Nonproliferation, and Arms Control , Youth and Peacebuilding
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August 2010
USIP's Open Simulation Platform (OSP) is continuing to make inroads with new audiences around the country as it expands and is increasingly utilized as a premier peacebuilding teaching tool. One of the main goals of this project is to provide teachers with a platform to create dynamic teaching methods for their students at any level; high school, undergraduate, graduate, or professional. Countries: United States
| Issue Areas: Mediation and Facilitation, Science, Technology, and Peacebuilding, Training, Youth and Peacebuilding
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June 2010
Writer Nigel Quinney describes his first visit to Nepal, during which he observed USIP's Justice and Security Dialogue process - and the May 1 Maoist strike which shut down Kathmandu. Countries: Nepal
| Issue Areas: Post-Conflict and Peacekeeping Activities, Rule of Law, Security Sector Reform/Governance, Youth and Peacebuilding
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February 2010
Eleven years ago, Kosovo was a war zone on the world’s front pages, an ethnic and nationalistic cauldron in which both national and international laws seemed an utter irrelevance. When the guns at last fell silent, Colette Rausch worked for several years in Kosovo as part of the international community’s attempt to construct the rule of law amid the rubble. Last fall, she returned to find out whether, from the perspective of the people of Kosovo, the international community's efforts had been invaluable or in vain. Countries: Kosovo
| Issue Areas: Gender and Peacebuilding, Post-Conflict and Peacekeeping Activities, Rule of Law, Youth and Peacebuilding
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January 2010
On August 3-4, USIP’s Center of Innovation for Media, Conflict and Peacebuilding conducted a two-day youth summit in Erbil as part of the "Peace Media for Iraqi Youth" project. USIP, along with four local NGOs, brought together 30 Iraqi youth (ages 14-18) from across the country to participate in activities aimed at supporting a new and growing community of young Iraqis committed to peacebuilding. |
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September 2009
USIP's Maria Jessop-Mandel writes about the Institute's recent human rights workshop, "Putting Human Rights Values into Action," for Iraqi professors held in Beirut, Lebanon. The program explored three human rights-related themes specific to the Iraqi context -- children’s rights, women's equality and academic freedom -- and ways these professors could more effectively teach human rights in their classrooms, and ultimately learn from each other's experiences. Countries: Iraq
| Issue Areas: Education, Gender and Peacebuilding, Religion and Peacemaking, Youth and Peacebuilding
| Programs: Academy for International Conflict Management and Peacebuilding, Workshops and Training in Zones of Conflict
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August 2009
USIP specialists discussed the tools and resources available online for peace-building with 60 university and 20 high school students, visiting the United States sponsored by the Department of State under the Iraqi Young Leaders Exchange Program. Countries: Iraq
| Issue Areas: Training, Youth and Peacebuilding
| Programs: Workshops and Training in Zones of Conflict
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July 2009
USIP’s Center of Innovation for Media, Conflict and Peacebuilding organized an expert working group on April 26-27 in Erbil, Iraq to discuss how to create a multimedia program that will provide Iraqi teenagers the tools to help them grow into independent, empowered citizens within a complex society. USIP brought together 25 experts for the working group, consisting of educators, media, youth NGO representatives, government officials and USIP-trained conflict resolution facilitators. |