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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.
Russia and its New Diasporas
On the morning after the Soviet Union’s collapse, millions of ethnic Russians living on the fringes of the former Russian Republic suddenly awakened to find themselves in foreign countries—newly independent non-Russian successor states that most Russians now refer to as the "near abroad."
The Tragedy of Russia's Reforms
The Tragedy of Russia’s Reforms presents a boldly original analysis of the collapse of the Soviet Union and the birth of the Russian state. The keys to understanding these events, the authors argue, are the prescriptions of Western “transitologists,” the International Monetary Fund, and advocates of economic “shock therapy.” These prescriptions allowed the nomenklatura and the financial “oligarchs” to acquire Russia’s industrial and natural resources and to heavily influence the country’s pol...
U.S. Human Rights Policy toward Latin America
Summary U.S. human rights policy toward Latin America has been constrained by six factors: the dynamics of international relations, domestic political considerations and the policy process, the intensity of U.S. attention to the region, the definition adopted for human rights, and local developments in the target country.
Truth Commission: Panama
Truth Commission: Panama Truth Commission (Comisión de la Verdad de Panamá) Duration: 2001 - 2004 Charter: Executive Decree No. 2, January 18, 2001 Commissioners: 7 Report: Public report
Adapting to the New National Security Environment
Summary The new administration's signal challenge in international affairs will be to use U.S. primacy to foster a global system that advances freedom, peace, and prosperity for Americans and the world. Foreign and security policy is an unstinting responsibility, and lapses in attention or leadership could bring about new crises. Several attributes inherited by the new administration may determine the prospects for success. Those attributes include working with an evenly divided Congres...
Commission of Inquiry: Côte d’Ivoire
Commission of Inquiry: Mediation Committee for National Reconciliation Duration: 2000 – 2001 Charter: Presidential Decree Commissioners: 28 Report: No report
Europe in the 21st Century: A Strategy for Achieving Stable Peace
Summary In the future, a peaceful, undivided, and democratic Europe could take different forms but would include the following elements: differentiation among states according to membership in Europe's institutions--if based on national choice, differentiation is the preferred model for Europe's future a stable peace among European states the integration of Russia into Europe a more equal relationship between the European Union and the United States in European affairs and gl...
Truth Commission: South Korea 2000
Truth Commission: Presidential Truth Commission on Suspicious Deaths Duration: 2000 – 2004 Charter: The Special Act to Find the Truth on Suspicious Deaths Commissioners: 9 for each of two terms Report: Public report
Truth Commission: Uruguay
Truth Commission: Commission for Peace Duration: 2000 – 2002 Charter: Resolución de la Presidencia de la República No. 858/200 Commissioners: 6 Report: Public report
The Israeli-Syrian Peace Talks
Helena Cobban here provides a fascinating look at the painstaking negotiations between the two Middle East powers that thrice went to war in the past half-century, and the role that the United States played in trying to bring Israel and Syria closer together on crucial points.