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.
What Future for Mugabe's Zimbabwe?
What are the possible consequences of a prolonged political deadlock in Zimbabwe? Are there viable options open to the international community to address the current humanitarian, economic, and political crisis there?
Peace Agreements: Aceh (Indonesia)
Cessation of Hostilities Framework Agreement Between Government of the Republic of Indonesia and the Free Aceh Movement (12-09-2002) Posted by USIP Library on: February 5 2003 Source Name: Department of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Indonesia web site Source URL: www.dfa-deplu.go.id/policy/view/aceh/cessationofhostilities.htm Date downloaded: February 4 2003
Crises on the Korean Peninsula
The United States and North Korea are in a tense nuclear stand-off; U.S.-South Korean relations are straining under the weight of rising anti-Americanism south of the DMZ. What options are open to U.S. policymakers to resolve these crises?
Truth Commission: Ghana
Truth Commission: National Reconciliation Commission Duration: 2003 - 2004 Charter: National Reconciliation Act No. 611 Commissioners: 9 Report: Public report
Would an Invasion of Iraq Be a "Just War"?
Summary Ethical Analysis of War Against Iraq, Gerald Powers The United States, in collaboration with others, has not only a moral right but a grave obligation to defend against mass terrorism and the threat Iraq poses. But the difficult moral issue is not mostly about ends but about how to defend the common good against such threats.
Prime Time Crime
One of the most courageous journalists of our time, Kemal Kurspahic tells a riveting tale of how media malfeasance stirred up the ethnic hatreds that led to the bloody Balkan wars of the 1990s.
How Germans Negotiate
Drawing on interviews with dozens of European and American negotiators, How Germans Negotiate explores the roots of contemporary German negotiating behavior and identifies the stages through which negotiations typically pass. Using examples drawn from the past 50 years, Smyser illustrates Germany's abiding search for security, stability, and community.
The Northern Ireland Peace Process
The Good Friday Agreement of 1998 brought the combatants in the Northern Ireland conflict closer to a settlement on core issues than many had thought possible. However, the political process the agreement set in motion faces serious challenges in the years ahead.
North Korea's Nuclear Posture: Policy Options for the United States
The United States finds itself embroiled for the second time in a decade with North Korea over the isolated Stalinist state's quest for nuclear weapons. Pyongyang's admission in October to having a heretofore secret program to acquire weapons grade material from highly enriched uranium (HEU), in violation of the 1994 U.S.-DPRK Agreed Framework and its other nonproliferation commitments, has spiked tensions in the region, distracted Washington from Iraq and the war on terrorism, and left the a...
Lawless Rule Versus Rule of Law in the Balkans
This report integrates the results of three related efforts. Case studies of Serbia, Bosnia, and Kosovo examine how political extremists, intelligence and security forces, and organized criminal enterprises formed enduring power structures during the 1990s that instigated war and persist in obstructing peace.