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.
Healing the Holy Land: Interreligious Peacebuilding in Israel/Palestine
Even though the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is primarily a political dispute between two nations over a common homeland, it has religious aspects that need to be addressed in any effective peacemaking strategy. The peace agenda cannot be the monopoly of secular nationalist leaders, for such an approach guarantees that fervent religious believers on all sides will feel excluded and threatened by the diplomatic process.
Boundary Disputes in Latin America
Since the start of 2000, five Latin American boundary disputes between neighboring states have resulted in the use of force, and two others in its deployment. These incidents involved ten of the nineteen independent countries of South and Central America.
Establishing Justice and the Rule of Law in Iraq: A Blueprint for Action
The Future of Iraq working group explores the findings from the new blueprint for establishing justice and the rule of law in Iraq.
Building Civil Society: An Overlooked Aspect of Iraq's Reconstruction?
Even as it deals with the immediate challenge of creating governing and administrative structures in Iraq, the U.S.-led Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) faces the additional long-term task of establishing civil society in the embattled country.
Iraq: Securing the Peace
An Institute Congressional Briefing.
Democratic Constitution Making
Summary We live in an era of constitution making. Writing a constitution is part of many peace processes. New nations and radically new regimes that seek democratic credentials make writing a constitution a priority. In a changing world, constitutional practice is also changing. Twenty-first century constitutionalism is redefining the long tradition of expert constitution making and bringing it into the sphere of democratic participation.
Truth Commission: Democratic Republic of Congo
Truth Commission: Truth and Reconciliation Commission Duration: 2003 - 2007 Charter: Law No. 04/018 Commissioners: 8 officials (21 members) Report: Public report
An Ounce of Prevention
"The science of medicine was the first to discover that 'an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure,'" Henryk Sokalski reminds us as he begins this study of a unique United Nations mission. "In the political realm, however, its full potential has yet to be realized." An Ounce of Prevention—and the UNPREDEP mission itself—begins in early 1995 with a telephone call to Sokalski at his Warsaw home from UN Secretary General Boutros-Ghali, and it ends several years later in a disappointing Sec...
Progress and Challenges: The Successor States to Pre-1991 Yugoslavia
Congressional Testimony by Dan Serwer, director of the Balkans Initiative.
Constitution-Making Process: Lessons For Iraq
Congressional Testimony by Neil Kritz, director of the Rule of Law Program.