United States Institute of Peace: Committed to the Prevention, Management, and Peaceful Resolution of International Conflicts

Updated: May 9, 2008

The United States Institute of Peace is an independent, nonpartisan, national institution established and funded by Congress. Its goals are to help prevent and resolve violent international conflicts, promote post-conflict stability and development, and increase conflict management capacity, tools, and intellectual capital worldwide. The Institute does this by empowering others with knowledge, skills, and resources, as well as by directly engaging in peacebuilding efforts around the globe.

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Liberia: Improving Economic Governance

Liberia's Governance and Economic Management Assistance Program (GEMAP) is improving the country's fiscal profile after years of neglect. Is this internationally-monitored system a "necessary intrusion" into Liberia's sovereignty?

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Workshop Promotes Law Reform in Afghanistan

This recent Rule of Law event brought together Afghan policymakers, members of the country’s Criminal Law Committee and comparative criminal law experts to discuss criminal procedure reform challenges in Afghanistan.

National Journal Spotlights USIP

National Journal, a prestigious policy magazine, wrote a feature article about USIP called "Peace Work" in its April 26 edition. It called USIP "an amazingly effective and ubiquitous influence in a host of foreign crises."

Framework on Fragile States

Working with a wide array of partners, USIP is helping develop common doctrine, frameworks and methodologies in support of peacebuilding. This is the first of several Strategic Frameworks that USIP is helping to craft.

Institute Video

Now more than ever, it is important that our country develop tools that can be applied to conflicts, to the rise of extremism, to alienation, and to a hundred other threats that are facing us. Developing tools that can be applied in a non violent way is exactly what the Institute does.
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Progress in Peacebuilding: Achievements in Conflict Management

Through analysis, innovation, collaboration, and expertise, USIP has successfully created an array of tools for promoting the rule of law in societies emerging from conflict, developed analytical models designed to fight extremism and terrorism, facilitated interethnic and interfaith reconciliation, and more.

Headquarters Project

Learn about the extraordinary plans to construct a state-of-the art building in Washington, D.C. devoted to promoting peace around the world.

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Around the Globe

USIP Around the Globe USIP’s experts frequently travel to global conflict zones to put their conflict resolution methods and regional expertise into practice. Interviews with these experts are available in On the Issues; get a first-hand look at their work in "hot zones" in In the Field.

National Peace Essay Contest

The winners of the 2007-2008 contest have been announced. Next year's topic is "Confronting Crimes Against Humanity."

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Held Hostage in Colombia: New Hope for a Humanitarian Accord?
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Is Liberia’s Governance and Economic Management Assistance Program a "Necessary Intrusion?"
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Managing Crisis and Sustaining Peace between China and the United States
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Kenya: Setting the Stage for Durable Peace?
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