The United States Institute of Peace (USIP) was established by Congress in 1984 as an independent, federally-funded national security institution devoted to the nonviolent prevention and mitigation of deadly conflict abroad.
The United States Institute of Peace (USIP) was established by Congress in 1984 as an independent, federally-funded national security institution devoted to the nonviolent prevention and mitigation of deadly conflict abroad.
Reconciliation and inclusion are keys to lasting peace in Colombia.
On Sep 29, join the USIP, the RESOLVE Network as they convene researchers from around the world to help set priorities for policy-relevant research to identify effective responses to...
Congressman Moulton Lays Out Plan to ‘Secure the Peace’ Amid Fight Against ISIS
Fragility Study Group Report
Solving real problems in difficult places
On a cool Friday morning in Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic, the conference room is silent for the first time...
With elections coming up next year in Liberia and Kenya, the time for early and sustained efforts to prevent clashes is now....
This month, the world's unprecedented refugee crisis, and the traumas of the greater Middle East that are fueling it, will...
Four days of talks last week restarted Myanmar’s peace process almost a year after a Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement was signed by...
Governors from northern Nigeria, where the U.S. military is helping quell the Boko Haram militant group, will convene at the U.S...
Colombian rebel troops are heading to decommissioning centers and minors are set to leave guerrilla ranks on Sept. 10, as the...
Military preparations are accelerating to recapture Iraq’s second-largest city, Mosul, from ISIS. The Iraqi government and its...
Myanmar’s new leader, Daw Aung Sang Suu Kyi, has made the country’s peace process one of her top policy priorities—and China is...
Afghanistan’s impressive revenue turnaround in 2015—when total government revenue exceeded expectations with an increase of 22...
The United States Institute of Peace mourns our friend and colleague Naqib Khpulwak, who was killed in the attack on the American...
After 52 years of armed conflict, the Colombian government and the country’s oldest rebel group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces...
Iraq’s execution yesterday of 36 men whom it accused of committing the deadliest single atrocity by the Islamic State group...
Preparing the next generation of peacebuilders
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The Academy for International Conflict Management and Peacebuilding is the education and training leader of the U.S. Institute of Peace.
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The near-daily litany of violence perpetrated by violent extremist groups like al-Qaeda, ISIS and Boko Haram illustrates the dearth of understanding about how these militant organizations successfu
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Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is committing horrific crimes, including sex slavery, against the Yazidis in Syria and Iraq to destroy a religious community of 400,000 people, according to U
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The near-daily litany of violence perpetrated by violent extremist groups like al-Qaeda, ISIS and Boko Haram...
Applying creative solutions to international conflict
For 35 years, the International Day of Peace on September 21 has served as a rallying point for governments,...
After four tours with the U.S. Marines in Iraq, Representative Seth Moulton, a first-term Democrat from Massachusetts,...
Three former high-ranking officials in the State Department, the Pentagon and the U.S. Agency for International...
A peace plan for South Sudan that was intended to end three years of fighting in the world’s newest nation has failed...
From the Panama Papers to an op-ed by Secretary of State John Kerry to a hearing in the U.S. Senate, signs are growing...
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta’s first four years in office expire next year and he has announced he’s going to run...
Khaled Harah, a volunteer with Syria’s Civil Defense Force, or “White Helmets,” died in an airstrike in Aleppo last...
From Orlando to Brussels to Baghdad to Jakarta, few regions of the world have been spared the violence generated by...
It was a startling discovery five years ago that prompted then 21-year-old Shubey Nantege of Uganda to found Go Girl...
His Holiness the Dalai Lama made a powerful point during a visit to USIP last month, a day after the Orlando nightclub...
The extremist group ISIS exhibits attributes of both an insurgency and a totalitarian regime. Even top U.S. generals...
Today, President Obama announced that he would extend the presence of roughly 8,400 U.S. troops in Afghanistan through...