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Articles, publications, books, tools and multimedia features from the U.S. Institute of Peace provide the latest news, analysis, research findings, practitioner guides and reports, all related to the conflict zones and issues that are at the center of the Institute’s work to prevent and reduce violent conflict.
State and Soldier in Latin America: Redefining the Military's Role in Argentia, Brazil, and Chile
Recent years have given rise to an intense debate about appropriate roles for Latin America's armed forces: Should they remain the guardians of political stability, or should they restrict themselves mainly to external defense?
Truth Commission: Ecuador 96
Truth Commission: Truth and Justice Commission Duration: 1996 - 1997 Charter: Ministerial Accord No. 012 Commissioners: 7 Report: No report issued
Nurturing Peace
Focusing on intrastate conflicts in which third parties have played prominent roles, Hampson argues that durable settlements depend on sustained third-party engagement not only during the negotiation phase but throughout the implementation process.
Humanitarian Assistance and Conflict in Africa
The good work of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in recent conflicts in such countries as Somalia, Haiti, and Bosnia is well known—providing food, shelter, medicine, and a host of other materials and services under extremely difficult conditions. But does humanitarian assistance in some cases actually exacerbate conflict?
Truth Commission: Haiti
Truth Commission: National Truth and Justice Commission Duration: 1994 – 1996 Charter: Executive Order Commissioners: 7 Report: Public report
The U.S. Contribution to Conflict Prevention, Management, and Resolution in Africa
The failure of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Somalia (UNOSOM II) to build a new state in that war-ravaged country, after the costly U.S. military intervention is often viewed as a critical lesson about the problems associated with the international community's attempts to resolve conflict in Africa. Thus, when genocidal strife erupted in Rwanda in 1994, causing millions of Rwandans to flee into neighboring countries, there was a strong reluctance to allow U.S. forces to become e...
Origins of the Cold War
The Novikov, Kennan, and Roberts 'Long Telegrams' of 1946
Breaking the Ice
Rapprochement Between East and West Germany, the United States and China, Israel and Egypt
Truth Commission: El Salvador
Truth Commission: Commission on the Truth for El Salvador Duration: 1992 – 1993 Charter: El Salvador: Mexico Peace Agreements—Provisions Creating the Commission on Truth Commissioners: 3 Report: Public report
Truth Commission: Chile 90
Truth Commission: National Commission for Truth and Reconciliation Duration: 1990 - 1991 Charter: Supreme Decree No. 355 Commissioners: 8 Report: Public report