Home / Additional USIP Fellows / Publications & Tools

Publications & Tools

Chaplains as Liaisons with Religious Leaders (Image: USIP)
Chaplains as Liaisons with Religious Leaders: Lessons from Iraq and Afghanistan
March 2006 | Peaceworks by George Adams, CDR, CHC, USN

As this study demonstrates, military chaplains, as clergy and officers, occupy a unique space that blends a secular status and a religious one, making them well suited to serve as intermediaries between military and religious leaders in areas of conflict and postconflict stabilization.

Issue Areas: Religion and Peacemaking
The Chaplain's Evolving Role in Peace and Humanitarian Relief Operations - PW46 (Image: USIP)
The Chaplain's Evolving Role in Peace and Humanitarian Relief Operations
September 2002 | Peaceworks by Captain Paul McLaughlin

To determine what role a chaplain could play in the civil-military and humanitarian assistance operations centers and teams present in an intervention, and at what point in the intervention a chaplain should be called upon to be an active participant.

Issue Areas: Religion and Peacemaking
Training for Peace Operations - PW12 (Image: USIP)
Training for Peace Operations: The U.S. Army Adapts to the Post-Cold War World
February 1997 | Peaceworks by Colonel J. Michael Hardesty and Jason D. Ellis

When the United States Institute of Peace announced a joint fellowship program with the U.S. Army War College, some observers unfamiliar with the Institute's work noted an apparent irony: Why should an organization devoted to the peaceful resolution of international conflict work with an institution whose main job is fighting wars?