Starting in late December 2023, vicious and indiscriminate violence broke out in the Mangu local government area in Plateau State, Nigeria among the area’s farming and pastoral communities. By the time the attacks stopped in mid-February 2024, reports indicated that 865 people, including 160 children, had been brutally killed.

Type: Analysis

On Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu becomes the first foreign leader to meet with President Donald Trump since his return to the White House. The visit comes as a fragile but holding cease-fire in Gaza approaches the midway point of its initial six-week phase, and as phase two of the agreement’s prescribed negotiations begin, with critical questions surrounding Gaza’s transitional security and governance to be decided. It also comes against a backdrop of a recently extended cease-fire deal between Israel and Hezbollah, expressed interest by both Trump and Netanyahu in advancing Israeli-Saudi normalization, and international concern over Iran’s nuclear threshold, despite the setbacks dealt to the “Axis of Resistance.”

Type: Question and Answer

USIP convened an expert panel of scholars and researchers over a four-month period in 2023–24 to explore lessons learned from the management of conflicts in prior periods of global turbulence. This is the third paper in a three-part series from the convenings and presents some of the insights and recommendations from the expert group on renewing and reinvesting in the US role for peacemaking in a turbulent world. The series was designed and managed by the Learning, Evaluation, and Research team at USIP’s Center for Thematic Excellence.

Type: Discussion Paper

USIP convened an expert panel of scholars and researchers over a four-month period in 2023–2024 to explore lessons learned from the management of conflicts in prior periods of global turbulence. This is the second paper in a three-part series from the convenings and discusses the state of peacemaking globally and for multilateral partnerships and institutions. The series was designed and managed by the Learning, Evaluation, and Research team at USIP’s Center for Thematic Excellence.

Type: Discussion Paper