How Opium Profits the Taliban

How Opium Profits the Taliban

Sunday, August 2, 2009

By: Gretchen Peters

In Afghanistan's poppy-rich south and southwest, a raging insurgency intersects a thriving opium trade. A new USIP report, How Opium Profits the Taliban, examines who are the main beneficiaries of the opium trade, how traffickers influence the Taliban insurgency as well as the politics of the region, and considers the extent to which narcotics are changing the nature of the insurgency itself.

Type: Peaceworks

EnvironmentReligionEconomics

Conflict, Identity, and Reform in the Muslim World

Conflict, Identity, and Reform in the Muslim World

Saturday, August 1, 2009

By: Daniel Brumberg;  Dina Shehata;  editors

Conflict, Identity, and Reform in the Muslim World highlights the challenges that escalating identity conflicts within Muslim-majority states pose for both the Muslim world and for the West, an issue that has received scant attention in policy and academic circles.  

Type: Book

USIP Addresses Refugee Crisis in Pakistan

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

By: Imtiaz Ali

USIP Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow Imtiaz Ali testified on July 29, 2009 before the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South and Central Asian Affairs about "Responding to the Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) Crisis in Pakistan.

Type: Congressional Testimony

U.S. Institute of Peace Teaches International Security Personnel to Resolve Conflicts without Resorting to the Use of Force

U.S. Institute of Peace Teaches International Security Personnel to Resolve Conflicts without Resorting to the Use of Force

Thursday, July 16, 2009

By: Mary Hope Schwoebel

Over the past decade, the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) has trained members of police and military forces around the world to prepare them to participate in international peacekeeping operations or to contribute to post-conflict stabilization and rule of law interventions in their own or in other war-torn countries. Most of the training takes place outside the United States, from remote, rugged bases to centrally located schools and academies, from Senegal to Nepal, from Italy to th...

Type: Peace Brief

Education & Training

Hearing on the Afghan Economy

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

By: Jeremiah S. Pam

USIP Visiting Research Scholar Jeremiah S. Pam testified on July 14, 2009, before the House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs on efforts by the U.S., the Afghan government and others to spur the Afghan economy in an effort to stabilize the country.

Type: Congressional Testimony

EnvironmentEconomics

A Renewable Energy Peace Park in the Golan as a Framework to an Israeli-Syrian Agreement

A Renewable Energy Peace Park in the Golan as a Framework to an Israeli-Syrian Agreement

Friday, July 10, 2009

By: Yehuda Greenfield-Gilat

The widely discussed Syrian-Israeli peace park concept is rooted in the assumption that Syrian and Israeli "good will" for cooperation is sufficient to mobilize a long- lasting, firm peace treaty between the two countries. The current discussions on a layout for a peace park provide a description of the mechanisms that will control and maintain the park, but fail to provide the insights for how to keep these mechanisms functioning in one, five or ten years into the future.

Type: Peace Brief

Counting the Costs of Somali Piracy

Monday, July 6, 2009

By: Raymond Gilpin

Authored by USIP's Raymond Gilpin, this new working paper offers practical strategies to mitigate the rising costs of Somali piracy and lay the foundation for lasting peace. The upsurge in attacks by Somali pirates between 2005 and mid-2009 reflects decades of political unrest, maritime lawlessness and severe economic decline which has dire implications for economic development and political stability in Somalia.

EnvironmentEconomics

Colombia

Colombia

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

By: Virginia M. Bouvier;  editor

Bringing together the experiences and insights of more than thirty experienced and emerging authors, human rights activists, and peace practitioners from Colombia and abroad, Colombia: Building Peace in a Time of War documents and analyzes the vast array of peace initiatives that have emerged in Colombia in recent years.

Type: Book

Truth Commission: Kenya

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Truth Commission: Truth, Justice, and Reconciliation Duration: 2 years anticipated Charter: Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission Bill Commissioners: 7 Report: The commission is still in session.

Type: Truth Commission