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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.
Weak Viability: The Iraqi Federal State and the Constitutional Amendment Process
How does constitutional instability contribute to the cycle of violence in Iraq? Jonathan Morrow makes recommendations for Iraq's upcoming constitutional amendment process that could help stop the current decline in the country's security situation.
Policing Iraq: Protecting Iraqis from Criminal Violence
Reducing criminal violence would advance stability in Iraq, increase popular support for Iraq's new government, and improve police-community relations. This can best be done through an effective program of U.S.-supported institutional development.
Economic Empowerment of Women in Iraq: The Way Forward
The international community and Iraqis must focus on a leading economic role for women. Participants discussed the current status of women in Iraq–and the challenges and options for the future–during a series of meetings hosted by USIP in recent months.
What Makes Zarqawi Tick?
As Iraq teeters on the precipice of a civil war, Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi, al Qaeda’s leader in Iraq, continues to search for ways to push the country over the edge. Yet questions linger about Zarqawi’s ultimate motivation: Is it his loathing of foreign occupation forces that make him tick? Or is his hatred of Iraq’s Shia the essential and irreducible sentiment that sustains his violent jihad?
Who Are Iraq's New Leaders? What Do They Want?
USIP's ongoing examination of Iraq's emerging leadership finds a revolutionary change in the forces shaping the new leaders and their political orientation since the end of the Ba'th regime. The report offers several proposals to help Iraqis step back from the current political crisis.
Who Are Iraq's New Leaders? What Do They Want? (Arabic Edition)
Summary Understanding the background and visions of Iraq's new leaders is critical to analyzing where the country may go in the future. Changes in leadership since Saddam have been revolutionary. Among Iraq's new leaders there are virtually no holdovers from the Ba'th era. A "de-Ba'thification" program to remove the old guard reinforces the divide between those who held office before and those who hold it now.
Saudi Arabia and Iraq: Oil, Religion, and an Enduring Rivalry
This Special Report is third in a series on "Iraq and Its Neighbors," examining the U.S. relationship with Saudi Arabia and Riyadh's policies toward Baghdad.
Iraq before the Election: Constructing a National Narrative
This USIPeace Briefing recaps a recent Institute event that considered the potential outcomes of Iraq's upcoming elections and their implications for the future.