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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.
Assessing Stability in Afghanistan: The Impact of the Illicit Drug Trade
Barnett R. Rubin, Chair of the U.S. Institute of Peace's Afghanistan Working Group, addressed a Capitol-Hill based study group on the challenges confronting post-conflict Afghanistan.
Who Are the Insurgents? Sunni Arab Rebels in Iraq (Arabic Edition)
Summary Building a profile of a typical anti-coalition Sunni Arab insurgent in Iraq is a daunting task. Demographic information about the insurgents is fragmented, and the rebels themselves are marked more by their heterogeneity than by their homogeneity. Drawing from a wide array of sources, however, we can try to piece together a view of their primary motivations for taking up arms against the U.S.-led occupation.
Arab-Israeli Futures: Next Steps for the United States
Conference Paper
Grasping the Nettle
Among the unwelcome legacies of the past century are a group of conflicts, both intrastate and interstate, that seem destined never to end. Unyielding conflicts offer numerous insights—not only about the sources of intractability but also about such facets of mediation and conflict management as how to gain leverage, when to engage and disengage, how to balance competing goals, and who to enlist to play supporting roles
The Political Economy of the Kashmir Conflict: Opportunities for Economic Peacebuilding and for U.S. Policy
Summary The governments of India and Pakistan have recently indicated a desire to develop warmer relations and to settle the issues that divide them by peaceful means. This endeavor will not succeed, however, unless political violence in Kashmir is substantially reduced.
Engaging Eurasia's Separatist States
In the wake of the dissolution of the Soviet Union, secessionist forces carved four de facto states from parts of Moldova, Georgia, and Azerbaijan. Ten years on, those states are mired in uncertainty. Beset by internal problems, fearful of a return to the violence that spawned them, and isolated and unrecognized internationally, they survive behind cease–fire lines that have temporarily frozen but not resolved their conflicts with the metropolitan powers.
The Current Situation in Serbia and Montenegro
Congressional Testimony by Dan Serwer, director of the Balkans Initiative and Peace and Stability Operations.
Civil Society Under Siege in Colombia
This report is based on material gathered during and after a delegation visit to Colombia from February 14 to 20, 2003, organized by the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA), to evaluate the effects of the internal armed conflict on Colombian civil society.
Iraq: Securing the Peace
An Institute Congressional Briefing.