April, 2013

Peacebuilding by the Numbers

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Date: April 2013

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Syria: We Will Not Become The Tyrant We Are Fighting

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I last spoke to Bashar Assad in 1996. He assured me then that as part of his inevitable ascent to power, change was coming. He knew he could not expect […]

Inaugural Issue

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Date: April 2013

Building Peace: A Forum for Peace and Security in the 21st Century shares stories of people, communities, and organizations that are transforming the face of peace and security around the […]

Join the Malian Ambassador & Authors for “Peacebuilding Perspectives on Mali”

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Join the Alliance for Peacebuilding, Honorable Ambassador of Mali to the U.S. Al Maamoun Baba Lamine Keita, and four of the authors from the inaugural issue of Building Peace: A Forum for Peace and Security in the 21st Century on Tuesday, April 16th at 2:45pm EST at the U.S. Institute of Peace.

Colombia: The Victims’ Hour

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In September 2012 Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos Calderón announced that the national government would begin peace negotiations with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). The talks could end […]

Uganda: Restoring Hope

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In 2002, when Caroline was seventeen years old, she was abducted in northern Uganda by rebel soldiers in the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), a militant group responsible for recruiting child […]

A Local Woman with a Global Platform: Interview with Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Leymah Gbowee

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Ms. Leymah Gbowee is a peace activist, trained social worker, and women’s rights activist who was a leader of the women’s peace movement that helped end the Liberian civil war […]

Special Feature: Between Warning and Action: Preventing Mass Violence and Atrocities

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Since Cote d’Ivoire’s outbreak of violence in 2002, the country has been in a state of political crisis. In October 2010 the first round of the long-postponed presidential elections produced […]

The Price of Violence

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Violence costs society and taxpayers a lot of money—but how much? To help answer this question the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) has developed a new methodology to determine […]

Talking to Each Other: Developing Effective Education and Training Programs for Conflict Prevention, Stabilization, and Resolution

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The beginning of a new term for President Barack Obama marks a chance to assess the development of an integrated U.S. approach to conflict prevention and resolution. The mission remains […]

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