All USIP Programs

Center	Program Name

	2006-2007 Contest
	2007-2008 Contest
	2008-2009 Contest
	2008-2009 Topic: Confronting Crimes Against Humanity
	2009-2010 Senior Fellow Activities
	A Conversation with Iraq’s Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki spoke on July 23, 2009 at an exclusive public engagement at USIP and answered questions from our audience.	Key Links All USIP Events Event Multimedia
	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.
	Assessing Conflict Transformation and Stabilization USIP is helping develop metrics for measuring progress in reconstruction and stabilization operations. This effort is a partnership between USIP, the U.S. State Department (Office of the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization), the Fund for Peace, the U.S. Army’s Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute, and US Army Corps of Engineers.
	Balkans Sustainable stability in the Balkans requires continuous international efforts, including the insights of those individuals with extensive in the field experience.
	Balkans Initiative USIP has been engaged in the Balkans since 1996, starting in Bosnia immediately after the signing of the Dayton Accords, and later expanding its activities to Kosovo, Serbia, Montenegro, and Macedonia.
	Blogs & Bullets Through this initiative, the Centers of Innovation for Science, Technology, and Peacebuilding/Media, Conflict and Peacebuilding explore ways to utilize quantitative and analytical tools to map online discourse and content in USIP’s priority conflict areas.
	Building Local Conflict Management Capacity in the “Three Areas” In the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, signed in January of 2005, the contentious "Three Areas" of Sudan—Abyei, Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile—were set aside for special treatment. To help prepare the citizens of the Three Areas for these new processes, USIP conducts capacity-building workshops to help manage and prevent violent conflict.
	Business and Peace Taskforce
	Center for Conflict Analysis and Prevention This team designs the Institute’s efforts to prevent the outbreak of violent conflict, conducting relevant analysis of countries and regions at risk, developing tools for effective prevention, and supporting training and education efforts. Featured Initiatives: Arab Awakening \| Congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture of the United States \| Quadrennial Defense Review Independent Panel \| United States-United Nations Forum
	Center for Mediation and Conflict Resolution USIP experts work on active conflicts, supporting training and education, developing tools for practitioners and identifying best practices for ending violence.