Second Annual Conference on Preventing Violent Conflict

Second Annual Conference on Preventing Violent Conflict

Friday, July 8, 2011

By: Abiodun Williams;  Lawrence Woocher;  Jonas Claes

USIP’s annual “Preventing Violent Conflict” conference is designed to spotlight the importance of the subject, address specific challenges facing prevention efforts and identify priority areas for USIP’s future work on conflict prevention. This brief summarizes the highlights of that conference.

Type: Peace Brief

Conflict Analysis & Prevention

Conflict Prevention: Principles, Policies and Practice

Conflict Prevention: Principles, Policies and Practice

Thursday, August 19, 2010

By: Abiodun Williams;  Lawrence Woocher;  Jonas Claes

On July 1, 2010, the U.S. Institute of Peace organized an all-day conference entitled "Preventing Violent Conflict: Principles, Policies, and Practice." The goals of this conference were to spotlight the importance of conflict prevention, to foster productive discussions between leading scholars and distinguished practitioners, and to identify priority areas for future work on conflict prevention by the Institute and the field at large. This Peace Brief provides an overview of that day's disc...

Type: Peace Brief

Global Policy

Preventing Violent Conflict

Preventing Violent Conflict

Friday, September 18, 2009

By: Lawrence Woocher

How well does the international community work to prevent the outbreak of new wars? In a special report, "Preventing Violent Conflict: Assessing Progress, Meeting Challenges," USIP's Lawrence Woocher examines the current status of conflict prevention as an international norm and argues for enhanced global attention on conflict prevention strategy relative to more reactive responses, such as post-conflict rebuilding and resolving existing conflicts.

Type: Special Report

Conflict Analysis & Prevention

Surprise Election Ruling Raises Tension Over Kenya Vote

Surprise Election Ruling Raises Tension Over Kenya Vote

Friday, September 1, 2017

By: USIP Staff;  Ambassador Johnnie Carson;  Susan Stigant;  Aly Verjee

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta called for calm after the country’s Supreme Court annulled his re-election, citing “irregularities.” He said he would accept the court’s order for a new election, similarly to the decision last month by his opponent, Raila Odinga, to challenge the election results in court...

Type: Analysis

Democracy & GovernanceGlobal Elections & ConflictJustice, Security & Rule of Law

Vulnerability to Intrastate Conflict

Vulnerability to Intrastate Conflict

Monday, June 20, 2011

By: Barry B. Hughes;  Jonathan D. Moyer;  Timothy D. Sisk

This report, which draws on the International Futures modeling system for its analysis, focuses on vulnerability to conflict. This meta-analysis approach seeks to help those in scholarly and policy environments understand more fully the various quantitative measures on conflict vulnerabilities.  

Type: Peaceworks

Brussels Attacks Highlight Connection to Regional Arcs of Crisis

Brussels Attacks Highlight Connection to Regional Arcs of Crisis

Tuesday, March 29, 2016

By: Nancy Lindborg

My sympathy goes out to the survivors and families of those who died in the terrible attacks in a string of bombings over this last week -- from Brussels to Baghdad to Lahore. I was in Brussels on a business trip and was preparing to leave my hotel to catch a flight back to Washington when we got word of the explosions at the airport and the metro station there. The terror that was palpable last week in Brussels is sadly all too common in those five countries that top the list for violent extremist incidents and fatalities: Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Nigeria and Syria. And, we are increasingly seeing the outward ripples.

Type: Analysis

Violent ExtremismFragility & Resilience

USIP, Partners Release Report on Realizing ‘Responsibility to Protect’

USIP, Partners Release Report on Realizing ‘Responsibility to Protect’

Tuesday, July 23, 2013

By: Thomas Omestad

Despite the war-weariness of Americans and political and institutional obstacles, the United States should take the global lead in fulfilling the "Responsibility to Protect," an international norm aimed at protecting civilians from genocide and mass atrocities, two senior U.S. foreign policy figures said July 23 at the release of a report issued by the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP), the U.S. Holocaust Museum and the Brookings Institution. The Responsibility to Protect principle is generally ...

Type: Analysis

Conflict Analysis & Prevention

Making Peace after Genocide

Making Peace after Genocide

Monday, April 4, 2011

By: Howard Wolpe

A former seven-term member of Congress and presidential special envoy during the Clinton administration, Howard Wolpe led the U.S. delegation to the Arusha and Lusaka peace talks to end the civil wars in Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. This report distills the author’s experience as a presidential special envoy to Africa’s Great Lakes region from 1996 to 2001, and as the director of a Burundi leadership training initiative from 2003 to 2009.

Type: Peaceworks

Human RightsMediation, Negotiation & Dialogue