Undergraduate Curriculum Development Guide

Undergraduate Curriculum Development Guide

Saturday, January 27, 2007

In response to increasing requests by colleges and universities on how to develop programs focusing on global peace, conflict, and security, the Education and Training Center has developed this guide to undergraduate programmatic development. It includes not only models, but also advice on strategies that can be used in the planning stage.

Type: Teaching and Learning Guide

Iraq: Beyond the Surge

Friday, January 26, 2007

By: Paul Hughes

Paul Hughes addressed the Capitol Hill-based study group "Security for a New Century" on the current security situation in Iraq and options to foster stability in the country and across the region.

Oral Histories: The Sudan Experience Project

Wednesday, January 17, 2007

The Sudan Experience Project Oral History Library contains the transcripts of nearly 100 interviews with those who negotiated and who are implementing the CPA. These first person accounts and the lessons learned from their experience are a substantial contribution to our understanding of the challenges of negotiating and implementing complex peace agreements.

Type: Oral History

Mediation, Negotiation & DialogueEnvironmentEconomics

On the Issues: Somalia

Tuesday, January 9, 2007

David Smock is interviewed on Ethiopia's invasion of Somalia, and event that thrusted Somalia back into the international spotlight.

Type: Analysis

Constructing Justice and Security After War

Constructing Justice and Security After War

Monday, January 1, 2007

By: Charles T. Call;  editor

In Constructing Justice and Security after War, the distinguished contributors—including scholars, criminal justice practitioners, and former senior officials of international missions—examine the experiences of countries that have recently undergone transitions from conflict with significant international involvement. The volume offers generalizations based on careful comparisons of justice and security reforms in some of the most prominent and successful cases of transitions from war of the...

Type: Book

Democracy and Counterterrorism

Democracy and Counterterrorism

Monday, January 1, 2007

By: Robert J. Art;  Louise Richardson;  editors

  Combating terrorism is nothing new for democracies. Over the course of decades, a wide range of democratic states has encountered an array of terrorist groups—and, moreover, has often prevailed against them. As this timely and stimulating volume makes clear, the United States can learn much from fellow democracies to help it in its current war against al Qaeda and affiliated groups.   

Type: Book

Leashing the Dogs of War

Leashing the Dogs of War

Monday, January 1, 2007

By: Chester A. Crocker;  Fen Osler Hamson;  Pamela Aall;  editors

USIP released the latest volume in its ongoing series on contemporary conflict.Leashing the Dogs of War: Conflict Management in a Divided World, edited by Chester A. Crocker, Fen Osler Hampson, and Pamela Aall is a follow up to their landmark 2001 work Turbulent Peace, which has become a leading classroom text in the study of conflict resolution. 

Type: Book

Building Blocks, Stumbling Blocks: Prospects for Peace in Kashmir

Monday, January 1, 2007

By: A Heather Coyne

The U.S. Institute of Peace recently hosted Farooq Kathwari, head of the Kashmir Study Group, to discuss the prospects for peace in Kashmir. Kathwari’s personal involvement and commitment to the peace process give him a unique ability to see potential for a way around the obstacles in this seemingly intractable conflict.

Type: Peace Brief