Liberia’s President Thanks U.S. for Helping Control Ebola Epidemic

Liberia’s President Thanks U.S. for Helping Control Ebola Epidemic

Thursday, February 26, 2015

By: USIP Staff

In August, West Africa’s outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus exploded into Liberia’s capital, filling its hospitals beyond capacity and killing many of the city’s already-too-few doctors and nurses. With her government struggling and Liberians dying in Monrovia’s streets, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf placed urgent calls to both Democratic and Republican members of Congress, “who I awakened at night,” she recalled today.  

Type: Analysis

Conflict Analysis & Prevention

USIP Hosts International Gathering on Water Security and Conflict Prevention

USIP Hosts International Gathering on Water Security and Conflict Prevention

Wednesday, September 11, 2013

By: USIP Staff

Assuring access to water of adequate quantity and quality in the face of increasing challenges poses a growing risk of future conflicts. But in preventing any outbreak of conflict, better water management can play a vital role in building peace and cooperation, a variety of officials and specialists said at the Water Security and Conflict Prevention Summit held at the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) on September 10.  

Type: Analysis

Conflict Analysis & PreventionEnvironmentEconomics

Promoting Peace in Petroleum-Rich Regions

Tuesday, September 4, 2012

By: Raymond Gilpin

Raymond Gilpin, USIP's Center for Sustainable Economies director, discusses how a USIP project to analyze the vulnerability of energy infrastructure in fragile, resource-rich countries could inform policy-making and strengthen efforts to secure peace.

Type: Analysis

EnvironmentEconomics

Security Sector Transformation in a Post-Conflict Liberia

Security Sector Transformation in a Post-Conflict Liberia

Thursday, April 5, 2012

Security Sector Transformation in a Post-Conflict Liberia Liberian Defense Minister Hon. Brownie Samukai outlined plans to have the nation’s security forces and institutions fully operational by 2014. Liberia's security sector transformation can provide a number of lessons for the United States in Afghanistan, which will also take on responsibility for its security in 2014.

Type: Analysis

Conflict Analysis & PreventionEnvironmentEconomics

Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman on Challenges and Opportunities in Africa

Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman on Challenges and Opportunities in Africa

Thursday, March 29, 2012

As six of the world’s ten fastest growing countries are in sub-Saharan Africa, the United States must help develop the potential and strengthen mutually beneficial partnerships with African nations, Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman told a packed auditorium at the U.S. Institute of Peace on March 28.

Type: Analysis

Conflict Analysis & PreventionEnvironmentMediation, Negotiation & DialogueEconomics

State’s Shapiro, at USIP, Outlines U.S. Policy on Peacekeeping

State’s Shapiro, at USIP, Outlines U.S. Policy on Peacekeeping

Friday, March 2, 2012

Calling United Nations and regional peacekeeping a “strategic priority” and a cost-effective way of bolstering U.S. national security, Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs Andrew Shapiro laid out U.S. policy for expanding the number and capabilities of peacekeepers deployed to conflict zones before an audience at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) on February 27.

Type: Analysis

Conflict Analysis & PreventionGenderMediation, Negotiation & DialogueEducation & Training

Need for International Peacekeeping Missions on the Rise

Need for International Peacekeeping Missions on the Rise

Thursday, February 23, 2012

The Arab League this month called for the U.N. Security Council to approve a joint Arab-U.N. peacekeeping mission in Syria, where more than 5,400 people have died as the regime of Bashar al-Assad presses a brutal military crackdown on a popular uprising in Homs and other cities. Russia and China vetoed an earlier Security Council resolution on Syria, and it is not clear how seriously the recent Arab League proposal will be considered. The Arab League has scrapped its monitoring mission in Syr...

Type: Analysis

Conflict Analysis & PreventionMediation, Negotiation & DialogueEducation & Training