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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.
USIP Supports Military to Civilian Transitions in Iraq and Afghanistan
USIP President Richard H. Solomon shares his views on the transitions to civilian-led efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan after a decade of military presence.
What Iraq Needs Now
What Iraq needs now is for us to remember that it is not defined by its political leaders, nor by its violent minority, nor by its past, nor by its neighbors near and afar, but by the aspirations and will of its people.
Salam Shabab Demonstrating the Value of Diversity Among Iraqi Youth
"Salam Shabab," a reality competition TV series for Iraqi youth that provides an entertaining platform for a much-needed message of unity and peacebuilding, will be launching its second season of programming later this year after a first season that, according to new research, successfully encouraged viewers to embrace Iraq's ethnic and religious diversity. The program is also receiving international recognition, the UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) Sp...
USIP’S ‘SENSE’ Trainings in Iraq in Demand
The Strategic Economic Needs and Security Exercise (SENSE), a state-of-the-art computer-facilitated simulation that teaches peacebuilding and negotiating skills, has helped more than 1,650 Iraqis in government, nongovernmental organizations and academia learn collaborative and decision-making skills that should directly strengthen their efforts to advance development and manage conflicts in a country until recently torn by war and still facing terrorist strikes.
USIP Backs Project to Assess Attacks on Health Care Workers in Conflicts
The U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) has awarded a grant to The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health to support a pathbreaking effort to systematically track attacks on health care workers and facilities in Burma—creating an analytical tool that ultimately can be used globally and that should become a foundation for efforts to prevent such attacks and promote accountability for those perpetrating them.
USIP’s Work in Conflict Zones
David Smock, senior vice president for USIP’s Centers of Innovation, outlines some of the more salient points and experiences in the new USIP press publication, “Facilitating Dialogue: USIP’s Work in Conflict Zones.”
Using Sound Economics to Build Peace in Fragile Environments
USIP’s new publication titled “Peace Economics: A Macroeconomic Primer for Violence-Afflicted States” provides a concise but broad overview of practical ways that sound macroeconomic fundamentals could be used to build stability in states that are affected by violent conflict.
Partnerships in Peacebuilding: Reconciliation in Iraq
Watch the newest “Witnesses to Peacebuilding” video about the transformation of Mahmoudiya, Iraq, featuring U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel William Zemp of the 101st Airborne Division.
Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Calls for Reconciliation, U.S. Pressure
Contending the United States has "a legal and moral responsibility" to help Iraq overcome its slide into political sectarianism, Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Saleh al-Mutlaq said January 14 that the transfer of American weapons to the Iraqi Army to fight al-Qaida-linked militants occupying parts of the western province of Anbar will not succeed without a broader national reconciliation.
Iraqi Shiite Figure Advocates Civic, Not Religious State at USIP
An influential Iraqi Shiite scholar used a visit to the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) to argue that even amid the growing Shia-Sunni tensions and violence besetting his country, religious leaders there should support a civic rather than a sectarian conception of state affairs and politics.