Vermont: A Model Peacebuilding State

Vermont: A Model Peacebuilding State

Sunday, February 12, 2012

In an age of international conflict and crisis, active peacebuilding is underway in America to advance national security and find alternatives to violence around the world. That includes Vermont, where last week USIP’s Special Assistant to the President for Grants and Middle East specialist Steve Riskin led the USIP New England Regional Grants Development Workshop and a public discussion on developments in the Middle East.

Type: Analysis

Education & TrainingEducation & Training

Analysts Laud U.S. Commitment to Asia

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

By: Thomas Omestad

The Obama administration’s reaffirmation of American engagement in the Asia-Pacific region for strategic and economic reasons is welcome, but describing it as a “pivot” toward the region in the wake of U.S.-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan neglects the continuity through decades of U.S. involvement in the region, three senior foreign policy figures from the United States, Japan and South Korea said at a forum sponsored by the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) on December 15.

Type: Analysis

Conflict Analysis & PreventionMediation, Negotiation & DialogueGlobal Policy

‘Worrying Fragility' Marks Afghan Nation-Building

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

By: Thomas Omestad

Afghanistan has benefited from some “amazing” social and economic advances in recent years, but “at the same time, there is a very worrying fragility” as military forces and aid from the United States and other countries wind down, J. Alexander Thier, director of the Office of Afghanistan and Pakistan Affairs at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), told an audience at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) on November 17.

Type: Analysis

Conflict Analysis & PreventionMediation, Negotiation & Dialogue

The Arab-Israeli Peace Process: Why It’s Failed Thus Far

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

The Arab-Israeli peace process has failed for 16 years, in part because past presidents have either been “over involved” or “under involved,” according to foreign policy scholar Aaron David Miller. “We have not yet found the right balance for American diplomacy,” he said at a USIP event on the peace process Nov. 2, one of several panels that focused on the prospects for peace in the Middle East.

Type: Analysis

Conflict Analysis & PreventionMediation, Negotiation & Dialogue

At USIP, Baker Calls for American 'Determination' on Mideast Peace

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

By: Thomas Omestad

Though there will be no breakthroughs on Middle East peace over the coming American election year, U.S. leaders will need to summon the “political will and determination” to again take up the vexing quest for an Arab-Israeli peace settlement when political conditions in the region allow, former Secretary of State James A. Baker, III, told a conference at USIP on November 2, 2011.

Type: Analysis

ReligionConflict Analysis & Prevention

Science Diplomacy for Nuclear Security

Science Diplomacy for Nuclear Security

Monday, September 26, 2011

By: Micah D. Lowenthal

Nuclear security expert Micah Lowenthal calls on science diplomacy, which played a key role in promoting U.S.-Soviet cooperation, to renewed engagement on current issues: nonproliferation, countering nuclear terrorism, verification of nuclear treaties, and ballistic missile defense.

Type: Special Report

Global Policy