Chester A. Crocker Chairman USIP Board of Directors August 20, 1998 Introduction

The United States Institute of Peace welcomes the first place winners of the state-level competition in the Eleventh Annual National Peace Essay Contest. More than 5,000 students in 50 states, the District of Columbia, U.S. territories, and American high schools overseas participated in this year's contest, writing on the manner in which war crimes and human rights violations are accounted for in various international conflicts. ...

Image on left: Chester A. Crocker USIP Board Chairman There is a profound contradiction in the American way of dealing with the world. Our society and economy, our communication and travel patterns, and even our personal investment choices are increasingly global. In our corporate, cultural and recreational lives we are engaged internationally and becoming more so. Yet we have fallen behind year after year in our investments in international education and research, in funding th...

As part of Holocaust Remembrance week, former Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright and former Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen were honored at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on April 22 for their work on genocide prevention. Secretaries Albright and Cohen co-chaired the Genocide Prevention Task Force, jointly convened by USIP, the Holocaust Museum and the American Academy of Diplomacy, which released its report in December 2008. Earlier in the week, former President Bi...

As the nation approaches the swearing in of America’s 44th president, and as the 114th Congress gets underway, a group of bipartisan leaders joins the Genocide Prevention Task Force’s call for the new administration and congressional leaders to make preventing genocide and mass atrocities a national priority. The Genocide Prevention Task Force, co-chaired by former Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright and former Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen, was jointly convened by the United St...

Contact: Lauren Sucher United States Institute of Peace 202-429-3822 Andrew Hollinger United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 202-488-6133         It is with great sadness that we learned this weekend of the passing of Julia Taft, a member of our Genocide Prevention Task Force. Julia Taft led a life of public service, dedicated to work inside and outside of our government, at...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - May 6, 2009 Contact: Lauren Sucher +1-202-429-3822 (Washington, D.C.) - The Congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture of The United States, facilitated by the United States Institute of Peace (USIP), today issued its final report to the administration, to the Congress, and to the American people. The report includes a total of nearly 100 findings and recommendations to strengthen America's strategic security. The Chairman of the Commission was former Secr...

Global Policy

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - May 8, 2009 Contact: Lauren Sucher +1-202-429-3822 lsucher@usip.org   (Washington, D.C.) - The United States Institute of Peace (USIP) today celebrates a milestone in the construction of its permanent headquarters facility on the northwest corner of the National Mall, known as a "topping out" ceremony. "Topping out" refers to the day when a construction team pours the last bit of concrete for the base structure of the building. Traditionally, workers sign their ...