April, 2013
Peacebuilding by the Numbers
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Syria: We Will Not Become The Tyrant We Are Fighting
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
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”
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 […]
