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The United States Institute of Peace (USIP) is an independent and nonpartisan organization with a three-part mission -- to help prevent and resolve violent conflicts, to promote post-conflict stability and democratic transformations, and to increase peacebuilding capacities and intellectual capital throughout the world. To support these goals, USIP Peaceworks provide in-depth analyses and policy recommendations on a variety of international relations topics, with a particular emphasis on the prevention or resolution of international conflict.

Publishers: United States Institute of Peace (USIP)
Publications: A Peace Regime for the Korean Peninsula
Displacement and the Vulnerability to Mobilize for Violence: Evidence from Afghanistan
Managing the Secure Release of Sensitive Detainees in Libya
Local Cross-line Coordination in Syria
The Religious Landscape in South Sudan
Youth Protest Movements in Afghanistan: Seeking Voice and Agency
What Works in Preventing Election Violence: Evidence from Liberia and Kenya
Hezb-e Islami, Peace, and Integration into the Afghan Security Forces
A Negotiated End to the Afghan Conflict
Ceasefire Violations in Jammu and Kashmir: A Line on Fire
Rule of Law, Governance, and Human Rights in Afghanistan, 2002 to 2016
Kabul and the Challenge of Dwindling Foreign Aid
LIbya´s Religious Sector and Peacebuilding Efforts
Contested Waters: Subnational Scale Water Conflict in Pakistan
Violent Extremism and Clan Dynamics in Kenya
Peacebuilding and Resilience: How Society Responds to Violence
Community Resilience to Violent Extremism in Kenya
Weak Ugandan Democracy, Strong Regional Influence
Policing in Libya: Form and Function of Policing since the 2011 Revolution
Prisons and Detention in Libya
State Strengthening in Afghanistan: Lessons Learned, 2001 - 14
Informality in Karachi’s Land, Manufacturing and Transport Sectors: Implications for Stability
Reconciliation in Peace
The Politics of Disarmament and Rearmament in Afghanistan
Border Security Challenges in the Grand Maghreb
Political and Economic Dynamics of Herat
State Strengthening in Afghanistan: Lessons Learned, 2001 - 14
Informality in Karachi’s Land, Manufacturing and Transport Sectors: Implications for Stability
Prisons in Yemen
Perceptions of Security in Libya: Institutional and Revolutionary Actors
Participatory and Inclusive Constitution Making
Conflict Dynamics in Sindh
Violence, the Taliban, and Afghanistan’s 2014 Elections
Rhetoric, Ideology, and Organizational Structure of the Taliban Movement
Elections and Violent Conflict In Kenya
Security and Justice in Post-Revolution Libya: Where to Turn?
Justice in Transition in Yemen
Women's Access to Justice in Afghanistan
Yemen's Transition Process
Illicit Trafficking and Libya’s Transition: Profits and Losses
The Taliban and the 2014 Elections in Afghanistan
Media and Conflict in Myanmar: Opportunities For Media to Advance Peace
Counterinsurgency, Local Militias, and Statebuilding in Afghanistan
Local Peace Processes in Sudan and South Sudan
Mapping Conflict Trends in Pakistan
Syria's Socially Mediated Civil War
The United States and R2P: From Words to Action
A New Approach to Understanding Afghanistan's Transition
Understanding Pakistan’s Water-Security Nexus
Regional Politics and the Prospects for Stability in Afghanistan
Waiting for Change: The Impact of Transition on Local Justice and Security in Yemen
Informal Justice and the International Community in Afghanistan
Traditional Authorities' Peacemaking Role in Darfur
Democratic Breakthroughs: The Ingredients of Successful Revolts
Pakistan's Energy Crisis
Conflict Dynamics in Karachi
New Media and Conflict After the Arab Spring
Evaluating Media Interventions in Conflict Countries
Gender, Conflict, and Peacebuilding
Peace Education
Making Peace After Genocide
Iraq's Disputed Territories
Beyond Power Sharing
Designing a Comprehensive Peace Process for Afghanistan
Will the Long March to Democracy in Pakistan Finally Succeed?
Vulnerability to Intrastate Conflict
Women in Religious Peacebuilding
Afghanistan Media Assessment
Arab-Jewish Relations in Israel
Local Justice in Southern Sudan
Debriefing Mediators to Learn from Their Experiences
Blogs and Bullets: New Media in Contentious Politics
Iraq's Oil Politics
How Opium Profits the Taliban
Looking for Justice
Managing Crisis and Sustaining Peace between China and the United States
Public Opinion in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Kashmir: A Problem in Search of a Solution
Democratization in Mali: Putting History to Work
How Not to Make Peace:
Chaplains as Liaisons with Religious Leaders
Religious Contributions to Peacemaking
Dismantling the DPRK’s Nuclear Weapons Program
Downward Spiral: HIV/AIDS, State Capacity, and Political Conflict in Zimbabwe
Biosecurity: Limiting Terrorist Access to Deadly Pathogens
Healing the Holy Land: Interreligious Peacebuilding in Israel/Palestine
Boundary Disputes in Latin America
The Road Ahead: Lessons in Nation Building from Japan, Germany, and Afghanistan for Postwar Iraq
The Palestinian Reform Agenda
The Israeli Military and Israel's Palestinian Policy
The Chaplain's Evolving Role in Peace and Humanitarian Relief Operations
The Ethics of Armed Humanitarian Intervention
Democratic Values, Political Structures, and Alternative Politics in Greater China
Training for Peace and Humanitarian Relief Operations
The Role of International Financial Institutions in International Humanitarian Law
Controlling Weapons of Mass Destruction
Passing the Baton: Challenges of Statecraft for the New Administration
From Revolutionary Internationalism to Conservative Nationalism
El Salvador: Implementation of the Peace Accords
The News Media and Peace Processes
Conflict Management Training: Advancing Best Practices
Coercive Prevention - Normative, Political, and Policy Dilemmas
Women in War and Peace: Grassroots Peacebuilding
Grappling with Peace Education in Serbia
Three Dimensions of Peacebuilding in Bosnia
Building Security in Post-Cold War Eurasia
New Approaches to International Negotiation and Mediation
Training to Promote Conflict Management
The Challenge of Regional Cooperation in Central Asia
Territorial Disputes and Their Resolution
The Quest for Democratic Security
Removing Barricades in Somalia: Options for Peace and Rehabilitation
Muddling Toward Democracy: Political Change in Grassroots China
Preventing Genocide in Burundi
The China Challenge in the Twenty-First Century
Private Peacemaking
Sovereignty After Empire
Keynote Addresses from the Virtual Diplomacy Conference
Greek-Turkish Relations and US Foreign Policy
US Responses to Self-Determination Movements
Creative Approaches to Managing Conflict in Africa
Police Functions in Peace Operations
Can Foreign Aid Moderate Ethnic Conflict?
Training for Peace Operations: The US Army Adapts to the Post-Cold War World
Zaire: Predicament and Prospects
State and Soldier in Latin America
Peace Operations and Common Sense: Replacing Rhetoric with Realism
Serbian Nationalism and the Origins of the Yugoslav Crisis
Self-Determination: Sovereignty, Territorial Integrity, and the Right to Secession
Humanitarian Assistance and Conflict in Africa
NGOs and Conflict Management
Sources of Conflict - Highlights from the Managing Chaos Conference
Central Asians Take Stock: Reform, Corruption, and Identity
Turkey's Role in the Middle East: A Conference Report
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