Publications
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.
Question And Answer
Amid a Changing Global Order, NATO Looks East
Keeping an Eye on an Unruly Neighbor: Chinese Views of Economic Reform and Stability in North Korea
What is the nature of internal Chinese debate regarding North Korea? In the event of instability in the Korean peninsula, how would Beijing respond? Drawing on discussions with North Korea specialists during a Center for Strategic and International Studies-USIP delegation visit to the People's Republic of China, this report explores these and related issues.
Media and Conflict: Afghanistan as a Relative Success Story
The development of media in post-Taliban Afghanistan has been relatively successful. However, such development remains incomplete and still faces many challenges. Hence, the international community must continue to assist and support these efforts.
How We Missed the Story
Award-winning journalist Roy Gutman weaves a narrative that exposes how and why the U.S. government, the United Nations, and the Western media "missed the story" in the leadup to 9/11.
Negotiating Peace in Darfur
As the planned deployment of a hybrid African Union and UN peacekeeping force gets underway, many issues regarding Darfur remain unsolved. What are the conflict's roots? What obstacles bar resolution of the conflict? How has Sudan violated international norms in this conflict?
Peacemaking in International Conflict
This updated and expanded edition of the highly popular volume originally published in 1997 describes the tools and skills of peacemaking that are currently available and critically assesses their usefulness and limitations.
The Eastern Sudan Peace Agreement: Taking Stock and Moving Forward
Amidst the conflict in Darfur and simmering tensions in the south of the country, USIP is working with regional partners to bring about a peace accord in the eastern part of Sudan. This USIPeace Briefing outlines the process, which incorporates steps in political reconciliation, disarmament, and economic development.
Stabilizing Afghanistan
Briefing before the bipartisan Congressional briefing series sponsored by Congressmen Howard Berman (D-CA) and Chris Shays (R-CT) on the ongoing conflict in Afghanistan and the status of U.S. and international efforts to stabilize the country with J Alexander Thier and the International Crisis Group.
The Environmental Dimension of Asian Security
Examines a host of critical environmental and resource issues through a “regional environmental security complex” that explores the potential for greater intersubjective understandings of regional environmental and natural resource problems and greater institutional collaboration and management.
Model Codes for Post-Conflict Criminal Justice
Of unparalleled breadth, depth, and authority, the Model Codes for Post-Conflict Criminal Justice is a criminal law reform tool tailored to the needs of countries emerging from conflict. Its three volumes present four complete legal codes that national and international actors can use to create, overhaul, update, or plug gaps in the criminal laws in individual post-conflict states.
The Central African Republic: Worsening Crisis in a Troubled Region
Recently, internal conflicts stemming from past and present realities and spillover of political unrest and violence from neighboring countries have given the Central African Republic, one of the least known countries in Africa, more prominence on the international map. Read more about this troubled region.