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Policy Briefs
General Policy Briefs
Title: Supporting Afghan Women in the 2014 Transition
Authors: Amy Calfas
Date: February 2015Title: Exploitation of Mineral Resources in Afghanistan
Authors: William A. Byrd, Javed Noorani
Date: December 2014Title: Pakistan's Resurgent Sectarian War
Authors: Arif Rafiq
Date: November 2014Title: How to Spur Afghan Reforms: The Limits and Benefits of Incentives
Authors: Trent Ruder
Date: November 2014Title: Licensing Afghan Opium for Medicinal Use: Why It Won't Work
Authors: William A. Byrd, David Mansfield
Date: September 2014Title: Creating Spaces for Effective CVE Approaches
Authors: Georgia Holmer
Date: September 2014Title: Afghanistan's Looming Fiscal Crisis: What Can Be Done?
Authors: William A. Byrd
Date: August 2014Title: Maximizing the Impact of Aid to Pakistan: Leverage Reform and Local Capacity
Authors: Richard Albright
Date: July 2014Title: Revisiting Chicago: The Critical Need To Maintain Support For Afghanistan's National Security Forces Post-2014
Authors: William A. Byrd
Date: June 2014Title: Former U.N. Peacekeepers: Agents of Cultural Change in Pakistan's Police
Authors: Muhammad Quraish Khan
Date: June 2014Title: Former U.N. Peacekeepers
Authors: Muhammad Quraish Khan
Date: June 2014Title: Engaging Afghan Religious Leaders for Women's Rights
Authors: Palwasha L. Kakar
Date: June 2014Title: The Constitutional Process in Ukraine: Issues in Play
Authors: Dominik Tolksdorf
Date: May 2014Title: PakVotes: A Social Media Experiment in Elections Monitoring
Date: April 2014Title: Why Afghanistan's Provincial Council Elections Matter
Authors: Anna Larson, Noah Coburn
Date: March 2014Title: Reintegrating Armed Groups in Afghanistan: Lessons from the Past
Authors: Deedee Derksen
Date: March 2014Title: Last Chance: The International Community and the 2014 Afghan Elections
Authors: Scott S. Smith
Date: March 2014Title: Youth Radicalization in Pakistan
Authors: Raheem ul Haque
Date: February 2014Title: Compounding Uncertainty in Afghanistan: Economic Consequences of Delay in Signing the Bilateral Security Agreement
Authors: William A. Byrd, Casey Garret Johnson, Sanaullah Tasal
Date: February 2014Title: The Taliban's View of the 2014 Elections
Authors: Michael Semple
Date: January 2014Title: Crisis and Opportunity in South Sudan
Authors: Princeton N. Lyman, Jon Temin, Susan Stigant
Date: January 2014Title: The Syrian Conflict's Impact on Lebanese Politics
Authors: Melani Cammett
Date: November 2013Title: The Reluctant Sectarianism of Foreign States in the Syrian Conflict
Authors: Thomas Pierret
Date: November 2013Title: Syria's Sectarian Ripples across the Gulf
Authors: Frederic Wehrey
Date: November 2013Title: Sunni-Shia Relations After the Iraq War
Authors: Fanar Haddad
Date: November 2013Title: Sectarianism in Lebanon and Syria: The Dynamics of Mutual Spill-Over
Authors: Joseph Bahout
Date: November 2013Title: Electoral Offensive: Taliban Planning for Afghanistan's 2014 National Elections
Authors: Antonio Giustozzi, Casey Garret Johnson
Date: November 2013Title: Common Strategies for Women in Transition Countries
Authors: Steven E. Steiner
Date: September 2013Title: Changing Financial Flows During Afghanistan's Transition: The Political Economy Fallout
Authors: William Byrd
Date: September 2013Title: Pathway to National Dialogue in Sudan
Date: August 2013Title: Detention Standards and Non-State Armed Groups
Authors: Bruce ‘Ossie’ Oswald
Date: July 2013Title: China's Subtle Strategy in the South China Sea
Date: July 2013Title: Peacekeeping 2014: An Agenda for Enhanced Effectiveness
Authors: Hanne Bursch, Ian Proctor
Date: June 2013Title: Democracy, Like Revolution, is Unattainable Without Women
Authors: Sahar F. Aziz
Date: June 2013Title: Crisis in Mali: Root Causes and Long-Term Solutions
Authors: Hannah Armstrong
Date: May 2013Title: Armed Groups Maintaining Law and Order: Dealing with Reality
Authors: Bruce ‘Ossie’ Oswald
Date: May 2013Title: An Anti-Fraud Strategy for Afghanistan's 2014 Elections
Authors: Zekria Barakzai
Date: May 2013Title: "We Pretend To Work, And They Pretend To Pay Us": Travails Of Mutual Accountability In Afghanistan
Authors: William Byrd
Date: May 2013Title: Engaging Men in Women's Rights and Empowerment in South Asia and the Middle East
Authors: Anne Angarola, Steven E. Steiner, Shannon Zimmerman
Date: April 2013Title: Atrocity Prevention at the State Level: Security Sector Reform and Horizontal Equality
Authors: Jonas Claes
Date: April 2013Title: Afghanistan and the International Drug Control Regime: Can the "Tail" Wag the "Dog"?
Authors: William Byrd
Date: April 2013Title: The Security Sector in Yemen
Authors: Holger Albrecht
Date: March 2013Title: Toward a European Institute of Peace
Authors: Jonas Claes
Date: February 2013Title: Justice in Côte d'Ivoire
Authors: Tobias Koepf
Date: February 2013Title: Egypt's 2012 Constitution: Devil in the Details, Not in Religion
Authors: Holger Albrecht
Date: January 2013Title: Political Economy and Conflict Dimensions of Afghanistan's Mineral Resources: A Preliminary Exploration
Authors: William Byrd
Date: December 2012Title: Middle East in 2013: Promise and (Lots of) Peril
Authors: Robin Wright, Garrett Nada
Date: December 2012Title: A Diplomatic Milestone for Mindanao?
Authors: Jennifer M. Keister
Date: December 2012Title: Governance Reforms in Pakistan's Tribal Areas: The Long Road to Nowhere?
Authors: Joshua T. White, Shuja Ali Malik
Date: October 2012Title: Using Entrepreneurship to Promote Stability in Fragile Regions
Authors: Raymond Gilpin, Steven Koltai
Date: September 2012Title: Providing Space for Positive Youth Engagement
Authors: Tim Luccaro
Date: September 2012Title: Mutual Accountability: Lessons and Prospects for Afghanistan Post-Tokyo
Authors: William Byrd
Date: August 2012Title: Haiti: Turning the Page?
Authors: Robert Maguire
Date: July 2012Title: Business and Human Rights: An Issue Whose Time Has Come
Authors: Jill Shankleman, Hannah Clayton
Date: July 2012Title: Avoiding Meeting Fatigue: How to make the numerous international meetings on Afghanistan more effective
Authors: William Byrd
Date: July 2012Title: Atrocity Prevention through Persuasion and Deterrence
Authors: Jonas Claes
Date: June 2012Title: The PTI and Pakistan's Changing Political Landscape
Authors: Stephanie Flamenbaum
Date: May 2012Title: Fixing Pakistan's Civil-Military Imbalance: A Dangerous Temptation
Authors: Moeed Yusuf
Date: May 2012Title: Drugs in Afghanistan—A Forgotten Issue?
Authors: William Byrd, David Mansfield
Date: May 2012Title: Providing Justice in Haiti
Authors: Robert Maguire
Date: April 2012Title: Paying for Afghanistan's Security Forces During Transition: Issues for Chicago and Beyond
Authors: William Byrd
Date: April 2012Title: Myths and Misconceptions in the Afghan Transition
Authors: Shahmahmood Miakhel, Noah Coburn
Date: April 2012Title: The Koran Desecration and the Role of Religion in Conflict
Authors: Qamar ul Huda
Date: March 2012Title: Climate Change as a Conflict Multiplier
Authors: Amanda Mayoral
Date: February 2012Title: The Diversity of Truth Commissions and Commissions of Inquiry
Authors: Evelyne Schmid
Date: January 2012Title: Haitian Women: The Centerposts of Reconstructing Haiti
Authors: Robert Maguire
Date: January 2012Title: Traditional Dispute Resolution and Afghanistan's Women
Authors: Sylvana Q. Sinha
Date: December 2011Title: Watching from the Sidelines: Israel and the Syrian Uprising
Authors: Ehud Eiran
Date: November 2011Title: The Gulf States and Syria
Authors: Emile Hokayem
Date: November 2011Title: Return to War in Sudan's Nuba Mountains
Date: November 2011Title: Jordan and the Current Unrest in Syria
Date: November 2011Title: From Militants to Policemen: Three Lessons from U.S. Experience with DDR and SSR
Authors: Alison Laporte-Oshiro
Date: November 2011Title: Constitutional Interpretation and the Continuing Crisis in Afghanistan
Date: November 2011Title: Syrian Uprising: Looking In, Looking Out
Authors: Amr al-Azm
Date: October 2011Title: Regional Dynamics of the Syrian Uprising: The Impact on Lebanon and Hezbollah
Authors: Mona Yacoubian
Date: October 2011Title: From Endearment to Estrangement: Turkey's Interests and Concerns in Syria
Authors: Yigal Schleifer
Date: October 2011Title: Baghdad's Wary Support for the Syrian Status Quo
Authors: Sean Kane, Elie Abouaoun
Date: October 2011Title: Istanbul and Bonn Conferences: Building Blocks of the Afghan Transition Process
Authors: Hodei Sultan
Date: September 2011Title: Impact or Illusion? Reintegration under the Afghanistan Peace and Reintegration Program
Authors: Deedee Derksen
Date: September 2011Title: Extending Libya's Transitional Period: Capitalizing on the Constitutional Moment
Authors: Jason Gluck
Date: September 2011Title: U.S. Special Envoys: A Flexible Tool
Authors: John K. Naland
Date: August 2011Title: The Kabul Courts and Conciliators: Mediating Cases in Urban Afghanistan
Authors: Zuhal Nesari, Karima Tawfik
Date: August 2011Title: Optimism and Obstacles in India-Pakistan Peace Talks
Authors: Stephanie Flamenbaum, Megan Neville
Date: August 2011Title: Nigeria's 2011 Elections: Best Run, but Most Violent
Authors: Dorina Bekoe
Date: August 2011Title: Second Annual Conference on Preventing Violent Conflict
Authors: Abiodun Williams, Lawrence Woocher, Jonas Claes
Date: July 2011Title: Pakistan, the United States and the End Game in Afghanistan: Perceptions of Pakistan's Foreign Policy Elite
Authors: Moeed Yusuf, Huma Yusuf, Salman Zaidi
Date: July 2011Title: Afghan Civil Society and a Comprehensive Peace Process
Authors: Lisa Schirch
Date: July 2011Title: The Challenge of Keeping Haitians Safe
Authors: Robert Maguire, Courtney McCreesh
Date: June 2011Title: Promoting Stability and Resolving Provincial Disputes in Afghanistan
Authors: Shahmahmood Miakhel, Noah Coburn
Date: June 2011Title: Afghan Perspectives on Achieving Durable Peace
Authors: Hamish Nixon
Date: June 2011Title: The United States in Iraq: Options for 2012
Authors: Sean Kane, William Taylor
Date: May 2011Title: Peace Negotiations in the Philippines: The Government, the MILF and International NGOs
Authors: Claudia Hofmann
Date: May 2011Title: EU Conflict Prevention Revisited
Authors: Jonas Claes
Date: May 2011Title: Constitutional Reform in Transitional States: Challenges and Opportunities Facing Egypt and Tunisia
Authors: Jason Gluck
Date: May 2011Title: Traveling toward the Rule of Law in the Middle East and North Africa: Avenues and Obstacles
Authors: Colette Rausch, Jason Gluck, Vivienne O'Connor, Scott Worden
Date: April 2011Title: Counterrevolution in the Gulf
Authors: Toby C. Jones
Date: April 2011Title: What Is In Haiti's Future?
Authors: Robert Maguire, Tara Nesvaderani
Date: March 2011Title: The Future of Pakistan
Authors: Stephanie Flamenbaum, Megan Neville, Constantino Xavier
Date: March 2011Title: Preventing Arab-Kurd Conflict in Iraq after the Withdrawal of U.S. Forces
Authors: Emma Sky
Date: March 2011Title: Lessons from Haiti and Beyond: Report from the 2010 International Conference on Crisis Mapping
Authors: Jessica Henzelman, D. Roz Sewell, Jen Ziemke, Patrick Meier
Date: March 2011Title: Defusing Egypt's Demographic Time Bomb
Authors: Raymond Gilpin, Amal A. Kandeel, Paul Sullivan
Date: March 2011Title: Covering and Countering Extremism in Pakistan's Developing Media
Authors: Hannah Byam, Christopher Neu
Date: March 2011Title: Côte d'Ivoire's Political Stalemate: A Symptom of Africa's Weak Electoral Institutions
Authors: Dorina Bekoe
Date: March 2011Title: Analyzing Post-Conflict Justice and Islamic Law
Authors: Scott Worden, Shani Ross, Whitney Parker, Sahar Azar
Date: March 2011Title: Belgium, from Model to Case Study for Conflict Resolution
Authors: Jonas Claes, Valerie Rosoux
Date: February 2011Title: Toxic Legacy: Hunger, Oppression, Migration, and Health in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea
Authors: Leonard S. Rubenstein
Date: January 2011Title: The Other Side of Gender: Including Masculinity Concerns in Conflict and Peacebuilding
Authors: Kathleen Kuehnast, Nina Sudhakar
Date: January 2011Title: Security After the Quake? Addressing Violence and Rape in Haiti
Authors: Brooke Stedman
Date: January 2011Title: Salam Shabab: Views and Voices of Iraqi Youth
Authors: Theo Dolan, Alexis Toriello
Date: January 2011Title: Bleak Outlook for 2011 Conference on Disarmament
Authors: Brian Rose
Date: January 2011Title: Afghan High Peace Council Fails to Reflect Afghan Civil Society
Authors: Patricia Gossman
Date: January 2011Title: Transcending the Past to Build Haiti's Future
Authors: Robert Maguire
Date: December 2010Title: Mapping the Russian Blogosphere
Authors: Anand Varghese
Date: December 2010Title: Conflict and Post-Conflict Governance: The Stakeholder Perspective
Authors: Jacleen Mowery, Demis Yanco, Ryan McClanahan
Date: December 2010Title: Chad's 2007 Peace Agreement Plagued by Poor Implementation
Authors: Delphine Djiraibe
Date: December 2010Title: Zimbabwe: Power-Sharing Deal Under Stress
Authors: Michael Bratton
Date: November 2010Title: When Is International Peacemaking Illegal? Implications of the 2010 Supreme Court Decision in Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project
Authors: Stephanie Schwartz
Date: November 2010Title: Stabilizing Chad: Security, Governance and Development Challenges
Authors: Dorina Bekoe
Date: November 2010Title: Secession and Precedent in Sudan and Africa
Authors: Jon Temin
Date: November 2010Title: MINURCAT Withdrawal: The Risks to Civilian Protection and Humanitarian Assistance in Eastern Chad
Authors: Erin A. Weir
Date: November 2010Title: Kosovo: The Next Steps
Authors: Daniel Serwer
Date: November 2010Title: Defying Expectations: Polio Vaccination Programs Amid Political and Armed Conflict
Authors: Leonard S. Rubenstein
Date: November 2010Title: Transparency is the Key to Legitimate Afghan Parliamentary Elections
Authors: Scott Worden
Date: October 2010Title: Persistent Challenges to Long-Term Peace in Côte d'Ivoire
Authors: Dorina A. Bekoe, Andrea Bartoli
Date: October 2010Title: Humanitarian Space Shrinking for Health Program Delivery in Afghanistan and Pakistan
Authors: Leonard S. Rubenstein
Date: October 2010Title: Crime, Politics and Violence in Post- Earthquake Haiti
Authors: Louis-Alexandre Berg
Date: October 2010Title: The ICJ's Advisory Opinion on Kosovo
Authors: Richard Caplan
Date: September 2010Title: The Civil Society-Military Relationship in Afghanistan
Authors: Lisa Schirch
Date: September 2010Title: Navigating Negotiations in Afghanistan
Authors: Matt Waldman
Date: September 2010Title: Mental Health Services During and After Armed Conflict: The State of Knowledge and Practice
Authors: Leonard Rubenstein, Anjalee Kohli
Date: September 2010Title: Many Shuras Do Not a Government Make: International Community Engagement with Local Councils in Afghanistan
Authors: Shahmahmood Miakhel, Noah Coburn
Date: September 2010Title: Iran's Youth: Agents of Change
Authors: Tara Nesvaderani, Omid Memarian
Date: September 2010Title: Iran's Subsidies Conundrum
Authors: Semira Nikou
Date: September 2010Title: Cautious Optimism for Peace in Colombia
Authors: Virginia M. Bouvier
Date: September 2010Title: Afghanistan: Conditions-Based Redeployment
Authors: William B. Taylor
Date: September 2010Title: Flooding Challenges Pakistan's Government and the International Community
Authors: Altaf Ullah Khan, Mary Hope Schwoebel
Date: August 2010Title: Correcting America's Image Problem in Pakistan
Authors: Moeed Yusuf
Date: August 2010Title: Conflict Prevention: Principles, Policies and Practice
Authors: Abiodun Williams, Lawrence Woocher, Jonas Claes
Date: August 2010Title: Iraq is Spinning Its Wheels, But in the Right Direction
Authors: Daniel Serwer
Date: July 2010Title: Can Economic Reform Open a Peaceful Path to Ending Burma's Isolation? (Burmese edition)
Authors: Lex Rieffel, Raymond Gilpin
Date: July 2010Title: The Premiership
Authors: Sean Kane
Date: June 2010Title: Rebuilding Afghanistan's Political Immunity
Authors: Shahmahmood Miakhel, Whit Mason
Date: June 2010Title: Iran's Youth: The Protests Are Not Over
Authors: Tara Nesvaderani
Date: June 2010Title: Haiti: A Forward Look
Authors: Robert M. Perito
Date: June 2010Title: Cooperation and Tension in Regional and Global Infectious Disease Surveillance
Authors: Leonard S. Rubenstein
Date: June 2010Title: A New Kind of Balkans Drama
Authors: Daniel Serwer
Date: June 2010Title: The Road to Successful Transition in Afghanistan: From Here to the December 2010 Review
Authors: William B. Taylor, J. Alexander Thier
Date: May 2010Title: The International Donors' Conference and Support for Haiti's Future
Authors: Casie Copeland, Robert Maguire
Date: May 2010Title: The Afghan Peace Jirga: Ensuring That Women Are at the Peace Table
Authors: Palwasha Hassan
Date: May 2010Title: Lebanon's Evolving Relationship with Syria: Back to the Future or Turning a New Page?
Authors: Mona Yacoubian
Date: May 2010Title: Is Nigeria a Hotbed of Islamic Extremism?
Authors: Stephanie Schwartz
Date: May 2010Title: Group Inequality and Conflict: Some Insights for Peacebuilding
Authors: Michelle Swearingen
Date: May 2010Title: Finding Common Ground: Kirkuk as a Special Governorate
Authors: Sean Kane
Date: May 2010Title: Fighting Corruption in Security Sector Reform
Authors: Robert Perito, Madeline Kristoff
Date: May 2010Title: Western Sahara: The Failure of "Negotiations without Preconditions"
Authors: Anna Theofilopoulou
Date: April 2010Title: The Tigris-Euphrates River Basin: A Science Diplomacy Opportunity
Authors: Joel Whitaker, Anand Varghese
Date: April 2010Title: The Rule of Law in Haiti After the Earthquake
Authors: Vivienne O'Connor
Date: April 2010Title: The Health Sector and Gender-Based Violence in a Time of War
Authors: Anjalee Kohli, Kathleen Kuehnast, Leonard Rubenstein
Date: April 2010Title: Preventing Media Incitement to Violence in Iraq
Authors: Theo Dolan
Date: April 2010Title: Preventing Conflict in the "Stans"
Authors: Jonas Claes
Date: April 2010Title: Nuclear Weapon-Free Zones as a New Deterrent?
Authors: Janene Sawers
Date: April 2010Title: Hydrocarbons in the Amazon: Awakening Old Inequalities
Authors: Patricia Vasquez
Date: April 2010Title: Haiti: Towards and Beyond the Donors' Conference
Authors: Robert Maguire
Date: April 2010Title: Haiti: A Republic of NGOs?
Authors: Madeline Kristoff, Liz Panarelli
Date: April 2010Title: Trends in Electoral Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa
Authors: Dorina Bekoe
Date: March 2010Title: Media and Peacebuilding in Afghanistan
Authors: Sheldon Himelfarb
Date: March 2010Title: Health Initiatives and Counterinsurgency Strategy in Afghanistan
Authors: Leonard Rubenstein
Date: March 2010Title: Can Economic Reform Open a Peaceful Path to Ending Burma's Isolation?
Authors: Lex Rieffel, Raymond Gilpin
Date: March 2010Title: Traditional Dispute Resolution and Stability in Afghanistan
Authors: John Dempsey, Noah Coburn
Date: February 2010Title: Local Ownership of Security Sector Reform
Authors: Liz Panarelli
Date: February 2010Title: Delays Will Not Improve Afghan Elections
Authors: Scott Worden
Date: February 2010Title: Time for a Peace Paradigm in Colombia
Authors: Virginia M. Bouvier
Date: January 2010Title: Prospects for Haiti's New Government
Authors: Robert Maguire
Date: January 2010Title: Peacebuilding through Health Among Israelis and Palestinians
Authors: Leonard Rubenstein, Anjalee Kohli
Date: January 2010Title: Negotiating Sudan's Post-Referendum Arrangements
Authors: Jon Temin
Date: January 2010Title: Iraqi Voices Entering 2010
Authors: Rusty Barber, William B. Taylor
Date: January 2010Title: International Engagement with Somalia
Authors: Stephanie Schwartz
Date: January 2010Title: Haiti After the Earthquake
Authors: Robert M. Perito
Date: January 2010Title: Congress and Parliaments in Security Sector Reform
Authors: Robert M. Perito
Date: January 2010Title: What Next for the Democratic Republic of Congo?
Authors: Dorina Bekoe, Michelle Swearingen
Date: December 2009Title: Online Discourse in the Arab World
Authors: Joel Whitaker, Anand Varghese
Date: December 2009Title: Establishing Leadership on Civilian Assistance to Afghanistan
Authors: William B. Taylor, J Alexander Thier
Date: December 2009Title: What Role for the United Nations in Haiti?
Authors: Robert Maguire
Date: November 2009Title: The Current Status of Religious Coexistence and Education in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Authors: Renata Stuebner
Date: November 2009Title: Lebanon's Unstable Equilibrium
Authors: Mona Yacoubian
Date: November 2009Title: Six Important Issues for Sudan and Its Future
Authors: Jon Temin
Date: September 2009Title: Crisis in the Niger Delta
Authors: David R. Smock
Date: September 2009Title: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Authors: Megan Chabalowski, Michael Dziedzic
Date: September 2009Title: An Education Track for the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process
Authors: Barbara Zasloff, Adina Shapiro, A. Heather Coyne
Date: September 2009Title: Media for Next Generation Peacebuilding in Iraq
Authors: Theo Dolan
Date: August 2009Title: Iraq's Interior Ministry
Authors: Robert Perito, Madeline Kristoff
Date: August 2009Title: Building the Rule of Law in Haiti: New Laws for a New Era
Authors: Hans Joerg Albrecht, Louis Aucoin, Vivienne O’Connor
Date: August 2009Title: Beyond Emergency Responses in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Authors: Raymond Gilpin, Catherine Morris, Go Funai
Date: August 2009Title: A New Agenda for Bosnia and Herzegovina
Authors: Jim O’Brien
Date: August 2009Title: U.S. Institute of Peace Teaches International Security Personnel to Resolve Conflicts without Resorting to the Use of Force
Authors: Mary Hope Schwoebel
Date: July 2009Title: A Renewable Energy Peace Park in the Golan as a Framework to an Israeli-Syrian Agreement
Authors: Yehuda Greenfield-Gilat
Date: July 2009Title: U.S. Policy and Bosnia-Herzegovina: An Assessment
Authors: David Binder, Dr. Steven Meyer, Obrad Kesic
Date: June 2009Title: What to do about Bosnia and Herzegovina?: The Case for Accelerated NATO Membership and OSCE Coordination of Constitutional Reform
Authors: Edward P. Joseph
Date: May 2009Title: Unfinished Business in Bosnia and Herzegovina: What Is To Be Done?
Authors: Kurt Bassuener, James Lyon
Date: May 2009Title: Maliki's Iraq between Two Elections
Authors: Daniel Serwer, Sam Parker
Date: May 2009Title: Haiti: Is Economic Security Possible if Diplomats and Donors Do Their Part?
Authors: Robert Perito
Date: May 2009Title: The Role of the Ministerial Advisor in Security Sector Reform: Navigating Institutional Terrains
Authors: Liz Panarelli
Date: April 2009Title: Resolving the Crisis over Constitutional Interpretation in Afghanistan
Authors: J Alexander Thier, John Dempsey
Date: March 2009Title: Reconstructing Gaza – Lessons from Lebanon
Authors: Alistair Harris
Date: March 2009Title: Building Blocks for Citizenship and a Peaceful Transition in Sudan
Authors: Linda Bishai, Kelly Campbell, Jacki Wilson
Date: March 2009Title: Building Blocks for Citizenship and a Peaceful Transition in Sudan
Authors: Linda Bishai, Kelly Campbell, Jacki Wilson
Date: March 2009Title: The Private Sector in Security Sector Reform: Essential But Not Yet Optimized
Authors: Robert Perito
Date: January 2009Title: Recruitment of Rule of Law Specialists for the Civilian Response Corps
Authors: Scott Carlson, Michael Dziedzic
Date: January 2009Title: Dr. Ali Al-Dabbagh's Iraq-based Formula for Regional Cooperation
Authors: Elizabeth Detwiler
Date: January 2009Title: Toward the End of Poverty in Haiti
Authors: Robert Maguire
Date: December 2008Title: Toward Resolving Chad's Interlocking Conflicts
Authors: Sarah Bessell, Kelly Campbell
Date: December 2008Title: Telling the Story: Documentation Lessons for Afghanistan from the Cambodian Experience
Authors: Scott Worden, Rachel Ray Steele
Date: December 2008Title: Iraq in the Obama Administration
Date: December 2008Title: Evaluating Iraq's Provincial Reconstruction Teams While Drawdown Looms: A USIP Trip Report
Authors: Rusty Barber, Sam Parker
Date: December 2008Title: Disaster in the DRC: Responding to the Humanitarian Crisis in North Kivu
Authors: Go Funai, Catherine Morris
Date: December 2008Title: What Iraq Needs from the Obama Administration: Recommendations from Iraqis Resident in the U.S
Authors: Elizabeth Detwiler
Date: November 2008Title: Haiti After the Storms: Weather and Conflict
Authors: Robert M. Perito
Date: November 2008Title: Haiti After the Storms: Weather and Conflict
Authors: Robert M. Perito
Date: November 2008Title: Media, Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding: Mapping the Edges
Authors: Sheldon Himelfarb, Megan Chabalowski
Date: October 2008Title: Iraq’s Cultural Heritage: Preserving the Past for the Sake of the Future
Authors: Elizabeth Detwiler
Date: October 2008Title: The Future of the U.S. Military Presence in Iraq
Authors: Julie Montgomery
Date: September 2008Title: Moving Beyond Relief: The Challenges of Settling Kenya's Internally Displaced
Authors: Sheila Mwiandi
Date: August 2008Title: Depoliticizing Zimbabwe’s Economy: Solutions for Two Million Percent
Authors: Raymond Gilpin
Date: August 2008Title: Killing Friends, Making Enemies: The Impact and Avoidance of Civilian Casualties in Afghanistan
Authors: Azita Ranjbar, J Alexander Thier
Date: July 2008Title: Iraq: Positive Change in the Detention System
Authors: Elizabeth Detwiler
Date: July 2008Title: Opposition Alliances and Democratization in Egypt
Authors: Hesham Sallam
Date: June 2008Title: Making Bosnia Work: Why EU Accession is Not Enough
Authors: R. Bruce Hitchner, Edward P. Joseph
Date: June 2008Title: Domestic Agencies in Reconstruction and Stabilization: The "4th D"
Authors: Merriam Mashatt, Bob Polk
Date: June 2008Title: Colombia's Crossroads: The FARC and the Future of the Hostages
Authors: Virginia M. Bouvier
Date: June 2008Title: Bringing Peace to the Niger Delta
Authors: Kelly Campbell
Date: June 2008Title: Afghanistan: Not Lost, But Needs More Attention
Authors: Mohammad M. Stanekzai
Date: June 2008Title: Is Liberia’s Governance and Economic Management Assistance Program a "Necessary Intrusion?"
Authors: Raymond Gilpin, Emily Hsu
Date: May 2008Title: Iraq’s Interior Ministry: Frustrating Reform
Authors: Robert M. Perito
Date: May 2008Title: Half Full or Half Empty: Assessing Prospects for Peace in Lebanon
Authors: Alistair Harris
Date: May 2008Title: Analyzing Iran's Domestic Political Landscape
Authors: Kelly Campbell
Date: May 2008Title: Resurrecting the Wall of Fear: The Human Rights Situation in Syria
Authors: Robert Grace
Date: April 2008Title: Kenya: Setting the Stage for Durable Peace?
Authors: Dorina Bekoe
Date: April 2008Title: Iraq After the Surge: Options and Questions
Authors: Sam Parker, Daniel Serwer
Date: April 2008Title: From Gridlock to Compromise: How Three Laws Could Begin to Transform Iraqi Politics
Authors: Jason Gluck
Date: March 2008Title: Embedded Provincial Reconstruction Teams
Authors: Robert Perito
Date: March 2008Title: Uganda/Lord's Resistance Army Peace Negotiations
Authors: David Smock
Date: February 2008Title: The Justice Dilemma in Uganda
Authors: Scott Worden
Date: February 2008Title: Facing the Abyss: Lebanon's Deadly Political Stalemate
Authors: Mona Yacoubian
Date: February 2008Title: Engaging the Darfur Diaspora for Peace
Authors: Susan Hayward
Date: February 2008Title: A Toxic Cocktail: Pakistan's Growing Instability
Authors: J Alexander Thier
Date: February 2008Title: Paper Versus Steel: Haiti’s Challenge of Constitutional Reform
Authors: Jasenka Jocic, Robert Perito
Date: January 2008Title: Negotiating Peace in Darfur
Authors: Susan Hayward
Date: January 2008Title: Iraq: Politics Unfrozen, Direction Still Unclear
Authors: Kelly Campbell
Date: January 2008Title: Coming Soon to a Country Near You: Kosova Sovereignty
Authors: Daniel Serwer
Date: December 2007Title: Côte d'Ivoire: Ensuring a Peaceful Political Transition
Authors: Dorina Bekoe
Date: December 2007Title: Behind the Numbers: Assessing Indices of Peace, Conflict and Instability
Authors: Sarah Bessell
Date: November 2007Title: Afghanistan's Economy: On the Right Road, But Still a Long Way to Go
Authors: Beth Ellen Cole
Date: November 2007Title: The Eastern Sudan Peace Agreement: Taking Stock and Moving Forward
Authors: Dorina Bekoe
Date: October 2007Title: Bridging Modernity and Tradition: Rule of Law and Search for Justice in Afghanistan
Authors: J Alexander Thier, Leigh Toomey
Date: October 2007Title: Transitional Justice in Nepal: A Look at the International Experience of Truth Commissions
Authors: Karon Cochran-Budhathoki
Date: September 2007Title: The Central African Republic: Worsening Crisis in a Troubled Region
Authors: Jacqueline Woodfork
Date: September 2007Title: Kosovo: Breaking the Deadlock
Authors: Daniel Serwer
Date: September 2007Title: Iraq: Time for a Change
Authors: Daniel Serwer
Date: September 2007Title: Constitutional Reform in Iraq: Improving Prospects, Political Decisions Needed
Authors: Neil Kritz
Date: September 2007Title: Violence in the Terai Region and the Madhesi Movement: Prospects for Peace in Nepal
Authors: Emily Wann
Date: August 2007Title: The U.S., Iraq and the Middle East
Authors: Daniel Serwer
Date: August 2007Title: Sudan’s 2009 Elections: Critical Issues and Timelines
Authors: Kelly Campbell
Date: August 2007Title: Special Court of Sierra Leone Briefing: The Taylor Trial and Lessons from Capacity-Building and Outreach
Authors: Scott Worden
Date: August 2007Title: Hearts and Minds: Afghan Opinion on the Taliban, the Government and the International Forces
Authors: Rachel Steele
Date: August 2007Title: Double Alienation and Muslim Youth In Europe
Authors: Adi Greif
Date: August 2007Title: Constituent Assembly Elections and Security in Nepal
Authors: Karon Cochran-Budhathoki
Date: August 2007Title: Child Soldiers: New Evidence, New Advocacy Approaches
Authors: Sara Dye
Date: August 2007Title: Rebuilding Civil Society in Afghanistan: Fragile Progress and Formidable Obstacles
Authors: Christina Caan, Scott Worden
Date: July 2007Title: Public Health and Conflict in Iraq: Rebuilding a Nation’s Health
Authors: Linda Bishai, Sara Dye
Date: July 2007Title: No Silver Bullets for Afghanistan’s Drug Crisis
Authors: Beth Cole, Catherine Morris
Date: July 2007Title: Journey of Death: Suicide Bombers in Iraq
Authors: Christina Caan
Date: July 2007Title: Healing and Reintegrating the Victims of Congo’s War
Authors: Dorina Bekoe, Christina Parajon
Date: July 2007Title: Developing and Managing Congo’s Natural Resources
Authors: Dorina Bekoe, Christina Parajon
Date: July 2007Title: The Role of the Media in Conflict
Authors: Christina Parajon
Date: June 2007Title: The Iraq Hydrocarbon Law: How and When?
Authors: Christina Parajon
Date: June 2007Title: International Intervention in Gaza: Options and Obstacles
Authors: Scott Lasensky
Date: June 2007Title: Haiti’s Drug Problems
Authors: Greg Maly, Robert Perito
Date: June 2007Title: Zimbabwe's Latest Crackdown: Responses and Consequences
Authors: Dorina Bekoe
Date: May 2007Title: Women's Role in Liberia's Reconstruction
Authors: Dorina Bekoe, Christina Parajon
Date: May 2007Title: Western Sahara - How to Create a Stalemate
Authors: Anna Theofilopoulou
Date: May 2007Title: Syria’s Alliance with Iran
Authors: Mona Yacoubian
Date: May 2007Title: Public Health and Conflict Series: Rebuilding a Nation's Health in Afghanistan
Authors: Sarah Dye
Date: May 2007Title: Options for Police in a U.S. Civilian Reserve Corps
Authors: Beth Cole, Robert Perito
Date: May 2007Title: Nepal in Transition: Developing Security and Rule of Law Strategies
Authors: Karon Cochran-Budhathoki, Colette Rausch
Date: May 2007Title: Is Serbia Moving Toward Europe?
Authors: Yll Bajraktari, Greg Maly
Date: May 2007Title: Is Iran Facing an Economic Crisis?
Authors: Kelly Campbell
Date: May 2007Title: Armed Conflict as a Public Health Problem: Current Realities and Future Directions
Authors: Linda Bishai, Sarah Dye
Date: May 2007Title: Who Rules Ahmadinejad’s Iran?
Authors: Hesham Sallam
Date: April 2007Title: The Situation in Afghanistan: A Re-evaluation Needed
Authors: Beth Cole, Catherine Morris
Date: April 2007Title: Syria's Relations with Iraq
Authors: Mona Yacoubian
Date: April 2007Title: Security Sector Reform in Liberia: Domestic Considerations and the Way Forward
Authors: Dorina Bekoe, Christina Parajon
Date: April 2007Title: Prospects for a Successful Peace Process in Nepal: Internal and International Perspectives
Authors: Lynn Tesser
Date: April 2007Title: New Strategies for Darfur
Authors: David Smock
Date: April 2007Title: The Future of Democracy in Bangladesh
Authors: Pavithra Banavar, Nicholas Howenstein
Date: March 2007Title: The Crisis in Interfaith Relations in the Middle East
Authors: Paul Wee
Date: March 2007Title: State-Owned Enterprises: Post-Conflict Political Economy Considerations
Authors: Zoë Cooprider, James Wasserstrom
Date: March 2007Title: Public Health and Conflict in North Korea
Authors: Sarah Dye
Date: March 2007Title: Nigeria 2007: Building Blocks for a Peaceful Transition Workshop Report
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Date: March 2007Title: Nation Building: We CAN Do Better
Authors: Beth Cole, Christina Parajon
Date: March 2007Title: Kosovo: What Can Go Wrong?
Authors: Yll Bajraktari, Daniel Serwer
Date: March 2007Title: Reforming the Iraqi Interior Ministry, Police, and Facilities Protection Service
Authors: Robert Perito
Date: February 2007Title: Civilians Will Make the Difference in Iraq
Authors: Daniel Serwer
Date: February 2007Title: British Counter-Terrorism After the July 2005 Attacks: Adapting Community-Policing to the Fight Against Domestic Terrorism
Authors: Jytte Klausen
Date: February 2007Title: Inside North Korea: A Joint U.S.-Chinese Dialogue
Authors: Chietigj Bajpaee, Bonnie Glaser
Date: January 2007Title: Building Blocks, Stumbling Blocks: Prospects for Peace in Kashmir
Authors: Heather Coyne
Date: January 2007Title: Creating a More Inclusive Peace in Côte d'Ivoire
Authors: Kelly Campbell, Adams Fusheini
Date: August 2006Title: Timor-Leste: Rebuilding Again?
Authors: Yll Bajraktari, Beth Cole DeGrasse
Date: July 2006Title: Prospects for Mediation of the Lebanon Crisis
Authors: A. Heather Coyne, Patricia Karam
Date: July 2006Title: No Stable Kosovo Without a Solution for Mitrovica
Authors: Yll Bajraktari, Christina Parajon
Date: July 2006Title: Haiti's Economic Challenge
Authors: Emily Hsu, Robert Pierto
Date: July 2006Title: Policing Iraq: Protecting Iraqis from Criminal Violence
Authors: Robert Perito
Date: June 2006Title: Bridging the Public Security Gap: The Role of the Center of Excellence for Stability Police Units (CoESPU) in Contemporary Peace Operations
Authors: Michael Dziedzic, Colonel Christine Stark
Date: June 2006Title: Whither the Six-Party Talks?
Authors: Ralph Cossa, Brad Glosserman, Scott Snyder
Date: May 2006Title: What Do Islamists Really Want?
Authors: Abdeslam Maghraoui
Date: May 2006Title: Haiti's New Government Faces Historic Dilemmas
Authors: Robert Perito
Date: May 2006Title: Economic Empowerment of Women in Iraq: The Way Forward
Authors: Ylli Bajraktari
Date: May 2006Title: What Makes Zarqawi Tick?
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Date: April 2006Title: Sudanese-Chadian Relations: A New Dimension to the Conflict in Darfur?
Authors: Kelly Campbell
Date: April 2006Title: Responding to Crisis in Nigeria
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Date: April 2006Title: Syria and Political Change II
Date: March 2006Title: Lebanon's Confessionalism: Problems and Prospects
Authors: Imad Harb
Date: March 2006Title: A Hamas Government: Isolate or Engage?
Authors: General Shlomo Brom
Date: March 2006Title: Afghans, International Community Chart A Joint Path Forward
Authors: Beth DeGrasse, Emily Hsu
Date: February 2006Title: Afghan Insurgency Still A Potent Force
Authors: Beth DeGrasse, Emily Hsu
Date: February 2006Title: Overcoming Obstacles to Humanitarian Assistance in Darfur
Authors: Dorina Bekoe, Kelly Campbell
Date: January 2006Title: Explaining the Yugoslav Catastrophe: The Quest for a Common Narrative
Authors: Ylli Bajraktari, Daniel Serwer
Date: January 2006Title: Syria and Political Change
Authors: Scott Lasensky, Mona Yacoubian
Date: December 2005Title: Strategies for Peace in the Niger Delta
Authors: Dorina Bekoe
Date: December 2005Title: Iraq before the Election: Constructing a National Narrative
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Date: December 2005Title: Emergent Insecurity in Eastern Sudan
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Date: December 2005Title: Belarus : Is a Peaceful Turn Towards Democracy Possible?
Date: December 2005Title: Six-Party Talks: Defining A Realistic Roadmap for Success
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Date: November 2005Title: Lessons for the Future of Civic Resistance: Georgia and Ukraine
Date: November 2005Title: Resolving the Boundary Dispute in Sudan's Abyei Region
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Date: October 2005Title: Draft Constitution Gained, but an Important Opportunity Was Lost
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Date: October 2005Title: Afghanistan: Old Problems, New Parliament, New Expectations
Authors: Beth DeGrasse, Emily Hsu
Date: October 2005Special Reports
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