Timing

Blogs & Bullets: Social Media and the Struggle for Political Change

Date: Thursday, February 24, 2011 / Time: 11:45am - 1:15pm 

This event, held in Palo Alto, discussed the latest approaches to understanding the role of new media in peace and conflict. The conference brought together a diverse array of innovators from across the public, private and academic communities to share research in progress, with a particular focus on harnessing the insights of Silicon Valley companies whose products have been key enablers of political activism from Tehran to Tunisia, Cairo to Colombia.

The Challenge of Iran

Date: Wednesday, December 1, 2010 / Time: 4:00am - 7:30am 

USIP launched “The Iran Primer: Power, Politics and U.S. Policy,” featured Ambassador Dennis Ross, Special Assistant to the President, followed by top experts discussing the internal and external crises facing Iran. "The Iran Primer," a joint product of the U.S. Institute of Peace and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, brings together 50 seasoned scholars on Iran from some twenty foreign policy think tanks, eight universities, and six U.S. administrations.

Engagement, Coercion, and Iran’s Nuclear Challenge: Report of a Joint Study Group

Date: Tuesday, November 16, 2010 / Time: 4:30am - 6:00am 

The U.S. faces important decisions as it prepares for talks with the Islamic Republic of Iran on its nuclear activities.  A distinguished group of 50+ scholars and policy analysts concluded that the U.S. should rebalance its approach to Iran, leveraging the gains achieved from sanctions by indicating a willingness to engage Iran diplomatically on a wide range of issues. The study group’s report is a broad prescription for rebalancing U.S. policy in a way that could increase the chances for s...

Conflict Analysis & Prevention

Women and War

Women and War

Start: Wednesday, November 3, 2010 at 7:00am / End: Friday, November 5, 2010 at 8:30am

In October 2000, the United Nations Security Council passed landmark Resolution 1325 on women, peace, and security, which linked women’s experiences of conflict to the international peace and security agenda, acknowledging their peacemaking roles as well as the disproportionate impact of violent conflict on women. Ten years later, the U.S. Institute of Peace co-hosted a three-day Women and War conference focused on the varied experiences of women during wartime and how to make sustained progr...

Conflict Analysis & PreventionGender

Rhymes of Peace: Arab Hip Hop Artists on Youth and Media

Date: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 / Time: 10:00am - 11:30am 

In a unique opportunity to explore how music and the media can serve as platforms to speak out against injustice and for peace, Arab hip hop artists the Narcicyst and Omar Offendum will perform their latest works and participate in a discussion at USIP with Manal Omar, director of Iraq Programs and Theo Dolan, senior program officer at the Center of Innovation for Media, Conflict, and Peacebuilding. Read the event analysis, Arab Hip Hop Artists Use Music to Collaborate on Peace

Youth

U.S.Relations with the Muslim World

Date: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 / Time: 4:00am - 2:30pm 

USIP, CSID, George Mason and ISESCO co-hosted this day-long conference examining America's relations with the Muslim world one year after President Obama's Cairo speech.