Programs

	Afghanistan The USIP’s Center for Sustainable Economies focuses on the development of conflict-sensitive approaches to mitigate corruption at all levels of Afghanistan’s society, facilitate the development of community-based monitoring mechanisms in Afghanistan’s mining sector and evaluate potential impacts of corporate activity in mining communities.
	Center for Post-Conflict Peace and Stability Operations Peace doesn't automatically return when the guns stop firing or an agreement is signed. This team works to advise newly-forming governments and institutions, promote and maintain community reconciliation, and help different groups on the ground to coordinate their efforts to maintain security and provide services. Featured Initiatives: Arab Awakening \| Haiti Working Group \| Lessons Learned: Oral History Project
	Center for Sustainable Economies
	Centers of Innovation USIP identifies and applies best practices in seven topical areas whose issues cross each phase of conflict through this series of Centers. Centers of Innovation: Center for Sustainable Economies, Gender and Peacebuilding Center, Media, Conflict and Peacebuilding, Religion and Peacemaking, Rule of Law, Science, Technology and Peacebuilding, Security Sector Governance Center
	Combating Serious Crimes in Postconflict Societies The Serious Crimes handbook is a reference tool for policymakers and practitioners who are designing strategies for tackling serious crimes in postconflict environments.
	Conflict-Sensitive Economic Tools and Methods The center recognizes that a conflict-sensitive development is imperative for success in conflict-affected states. The center’s work in this area involves development of conflict-preventative economic tools, economic reconstruction, and economic aspects of mediation.
	Country-Specific Engagements The Constitution Making Project engages directly in ongoing constitution making processes, providing support and advice on issues of substance, process, and implementation to government, international, and NGO/civil society organizations in Afghanistan, Bosnia, Iraq, and DRC, among others.
	Increasing Understanding and Effectiveness of Operations in Afghanistan
	Media, Conflict and Peacebuilding This Center of Innovation focuses on harnessing the power of the media for peacebuilding, and on developing new strategies for countering the abuse of media during conflict.
	Project on Conflict, Democracy and Security Led by Daniel Brumberg, senior adviser to the Center for Conflict Analysis and Prevention, this project examines the conditions surrounding political reform in unstable and/or divided societies, aiming to provide a guide for peaceful and inclusive democratic transformation.