As a national, nonpartisan, independent Institute, the U.S. Institute of Peace draws on our exceptional convening power to create opportunities for diverse audiences to exchange knowledge, experiences, and ideas necessary for creative solutions to difficult challenges. We serve as an important, neutral platform for bringing together government and nongovernment, diplomacy, security, and development actors, and participants across political views. The Institute’s events help shape public policy and priorities to advance peaceful solutions to conflict and strengthen international security.
USIP hosted thought leaders and grassroots activists for a discussion on how they have responded to rising digital authoritarian tactics, as well as a presentation of new cutting-edge research from USIP experts on how social movements are using new technologies and organizing strategies to adapt and advocate for a more just, democratic and peaceful world.
On December 16, USIP and OHCHR held a conversation about religious actors’ support for human rights promotion, the #Faith4Rights Toolkit and how the intersection of religion and human rights can help inform sustainable peace.
On December 15, USIP held a discussion with leading experts that explores the current efforts to develop national action plans on YPS in Southeast Asia and identifies key lessons for implementing the YPS agenda in the region
On December 13 USIP and WOLA held an in-depth discussion of the GIEI’s findings and an examination of how the GIEI’s recommendations can promote the kind of accountability, healing and common understanding across Bolivia’s political and identity divides that could ultimately prevent the repetition of the conflict, violence and human rights violations that marked the country’s 2019 electoral crisis.
In support of the White House’s Summit for Democracy, USIP held a conversation with civil-society leaders from five democracies that are affected by diverse and challenging conflicts — Colombia, Iraq, Nigeria, the Philippines and Ukraine.
On December 1 USIP and the RESOLVE Network held a virtual conversation that’s part of the sixth annual RESOLVE Global Forum Series. The discussion examined community-driven security and the role of local armed groups in conflict ecosystems, as well as looked at women’s contributions to formal and informal community-based security, conflict resolution, governance and rule of law mechanisms.
As a part of RESOLVE’s sixth annual Global Forum Series, USIP held the RESOLVE Network for a virtual conversation about REMVE trends and activities in lesser discussed contexts. Focusing on Australia and India, this conversation brought together leading experts to unpack ongoing trends and their implications for the current landscape of violent extremism and REMVE.
As part of this year’s World Mental Health Day, join USIP and the U.S. Department of State’s International Religious Freedom Office for a discussion on religion, MHPSS and migration.
On October 13, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, USIP President and CEO Lise Grande, and USIP Generation Change Fellows convened for two days of conversation focusing on gender equality and education for the heart and mind.
On June 14, USIP, the Ansari Institute for Global Engagement for Religion and the Keough School of Global Affairs took a closer look at the complex social, political, economic and religious factors that fuel discrimination towards religious minority communities during periods of political uncertainty.