Resources & Tools
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President Barack Obama recently met with Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari and Afghan President Hamid Karzai and pressed the two leaders to do more to combat Taliban and al Qaeda fighters in the border area. Rodney W. Jones, program officer for USIP’s Center for Conflict Analysis and Prevention, assesses Pakistan’s efforts to battle insurgents, the Obama administration’s new approach on Pakistan and Afghanistan, and what USIP is doing to address the problems in the troubled region. Countries: Pakistan
| Issue Areas: Identity, Ethnicity, and Culture, Religion, Terrorism and Political Extremism
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An online toolkit for peacemakers, negotiators, and other conflict management practitioners. |
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For more than eleven months this bipartisan commission of leading experts on national security, arms control, and nuclear technology met with Congressional leaders, military officers, high-level officials of several countries, arms control groups, and technical experts to assess the appropriate roles for nuclear weapons, nonproliferation programs, and missile defenses. This official edition contains a discussion of key questions and issues as well as the Commission’s findings and recommendations for tailoring U.S. strategic posture to new and emerging requirements as the world moves closer to a proliferation tipping point. |
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The UK Department for International Development offers a methodology for analyzing conflict, assessing conflict related risks associated with development or humanitarian assistance, and developing options for more conflict sensitive policies and programs. Issue Areas: Conflict Analysis, Early Warning & Conflict Prevention
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With an eye toward preventing future genocide, this book analyzes the genocide in Rwanda and the international community's lack of response. It was funded by USIP and won the 1998 National Book Critics Circle Award, the Los Angeles Book Prize, and the New York Times Bestseller and Editor's Choice Award. |
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This book, supported by a USIP grant, is one of most influential studies produced in the last ten years in the field of ethnic conflict. In 2003, it received the Gregory Lubbert Prize, the highest annual award in the field of comparative politics given by the American Political Science Association. |
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This USIP-produced series includes two pioneering works on ethnic conflict in the post-Cold War world. The first volume presents a disturbing picture of spreading ethnic violence. The second documents a pronounced decline since the early 1990s, but also identifies some ninety groups at significant risk of conflict and repression in the early 21st century. The book cautions that the emerging global regime of principles and strategies governing relations between communal groups and states is far from perfect or universally effective |
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This material, developed by The Center for Victims of Torture with the support of USIP, is an essential toolkit for human rights advocates. A Workbook includes practical options for the practitioner, while Tactical Training Notebooks illustrate how human rights advocates and practitioners can effectively engage with a wide variety of community leaders using actual cases. |
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This handbook, CD, and website, produced from a USIP grant, describes proven strategies and tactics for nonviolent political movements. Based on first hand experience in Serbia and Georgia, the resources provide easily accessible lessons and best practices to front-line practitioners engaged in struggles for freedom around the world. |
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USIP supported the production of this documentary film by Steve York, which focuses on six case studies of strategic non-violent conflict in the 20th century. Initially aired nationally on PBS and rebroadcast locally around the country, this film has won numerous awards, including an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Historical Program and the Gold Hugo at the Chicago International Television Competition. Additionally, a computer game based on the documentary has been developed by The International Center on Nonviolent Conflict, the media firm York Zimmerman Inc., and game designers at BreakAway Ltd. It is the first game of its kind designed to train civil society activists around the world in nonviolent strategies and tactics. |