Helping Somalia Move Forward

Helping Somalia Move Forward

Thursday, June 20, 2013

By: USIP Staff

Congressman Keith Ellison this month met with USIP President Jim Marshall, USIP Vice Chairman Ambassador George Moose, former Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Johnnie Carson, now a senior advisor at USIP, David Smock, senior vice president of USIP’s Centers of Innovation, and Jon Temin, director of USIP’s Horn of Africa program, to discuss the current situation in Somalia.

Type: Analysis

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

Health in Post-Conflict and Fragile States

Health in Post-Conflict and Fragile States

Sunday, January 1, 2012

By: Rohini Jonnalagadda Haar;  Leonard S. Rubenstein

Civilian health, health care workers, and health facilities disproportionately suffer in countries experiencing severe instability, but global health donors have yet to make developing health systems in such states a priority. Doing so could both make populations healthier and contribute to state legitimacy.

Type: Special Report

State Dept.’s Schwartz Calls for Stronger Humanitarian Capabilities

Friday, September 30, 2011

By: Thomas Omestad

In tackling complex humanitarian crises in the Horn of Africa and elsewhere, the U.S. government will “proceed on two fronts—building our national capacities while strengthening the multilateral system of humanitarian response,” Eric P. Schwartz, the assistant secretary of state for population, refugees, and migration told an audience at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) on September 28.

Type: Analysis

Human Rights

Analyzing Post-Conflict Justice and Islamic Law

Analyzing Post-Conflict Justice and Islamic Law

Monday, March 28, 2011

By: Scott Worden;  Shani Ross;  Whitney Parker;  Sahar Azar

Post-conflict justice mechanisms such as truth commissions, war crimes tribunals and reparations programs have emerged as a fundamental building block of durable peace settlements in Latin America, Africa and Asia. They are relatively rare, however, in Muslim countries recovering from conflict—despite the fact that social and criminal justice is a fundamental principle of Islamic law.

Type: Peace Brief

Religion

Trends in Electoral Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa

Trends in Electoral Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

By: Dorina Bekoe

Studies indicate that violence in Africa’s elections affects between 19 and 25 percent of elections. In many countries where electoral violence is a risk, it tends to recur and may consequently lead to an unfavorable view of democratization.

Type: Peace Brief