Publications & Tools
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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. |
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Chester A. Crocker, long-serving member of USIP's Board of Directors, discusses the future of peacebuilding, the impacts of cuts to national security budgets, his contributions as a board member and chairman, USIP's unique national security functions and Academy, and more. |
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This project sought to highlight the broad spectrum of issues that link media and conflict resolution through a series of customized workshops and trainings in Washington, DC for Colombian war correspondents and editors. While providing an innovative training for Colombian journalists and war correspondents this pilot program also paved the way for more training for war correspondents within other war ridden countries. |
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Improving Interethnic Cooperation and Building Conflict Resolution Capacity and on the Pacific Coast
With USIP support, the Jenzera Foundation for Alternative Development carried out a training project designed to build conflict resolution capacity and encourage inter-ethnic cooperation in a number of rivers in Colombia’s Pacific coast. |
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USIP supported a partnership between Global Rights and AFRODES to build the capacity of internally displaced Afro-Colombians to engage the Colombian government and appropriate international human rights bodies over issues of displacement. |
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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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On July 1, 2010, the U.S. Institute of Peace organized an all-day conference entitled "Preventing Violent Conflict: Principles, Policies, and Practice." The goals of this conference were to spotlight the importance of conflict prevention, to foster productive discussions between leading scholars and distinguished practitioners, and to identify priority areas for future work on conflict prevention by the Institute and the field at large. This Peace Brief provides an overview of that day's discussions. |
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Private oil companies invested $800 million in Peru in 2009 alone, and another $1 billion is planned for investments in natural gas developments between 2010-2013, as Peru is rapidly on its way to becoming Latin America’s first exporter of liquefied natural gas (LNG). New oil and gas revenues have contributed to Peru’s steady economic growth. But growing opposition from indigenous groups to these new hydrocarbons projects is polarizing Peru’s already highly unequal society and creating dangerously conflictive situations. |
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Since the start of 2000, five Latin American boundary disputes between neighboring states have resulted in the use of force, and two others in its deployment. These incidents involved ten of the nineteen independent countries of South and Central America. Countries: North America, South America
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