United States Institute of Peace - Examples of USIP Work - Additional USIP Work

Additional USIP Work

• Worked with community leaders to build peace neighborhood-by-neighborhood in Iraq.
• Working with tribal chiefs, educator, and civil society leaders in support of peacemaking in Sudan.
• Training hundreds of young Nigerian religious leaders, women, and youth from all over the country to be peacemakers; and helping bring peace to large parts of Plateau State.
• Strengthening the peacemaking capacity of religious leaders and faith-based organizations through research, technical assistance, facilitated dialogues, and operational support.
• Helping establish the rule of law, a fundamental building block to peace in Afghanistan, Iraq, Liberia, Palestine, and Nepal
• Producing a preeminent book series on cultural negotiating behavior, field-defining textbooks on conflict management, and online training available across the globe.
  • General reference
    • The Diplomat’s Dictionary
    • Negotiating across Cultures: International Communication in an Interdependent World
    • Arts of Power: Statecraft and Diplomacy
    • Culture and Conflict Resolution
  • Country-specific
    • How Pakistan Negotiates with the United States: Riding the Roller Coaster
    • American Negotiating Behavior: Wheeler-Dealers, Legal Eagles, Bullies, and Preachers
    • Negotiating with Iran:W restling the Ghosts of History
    • How Israelis and Palestinians Negotiate: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of the Oslo Peace Process
    • French Negotiating Behavior: Dealing with La Grande Nation
    • How Germans Negotiate: Logical Goals, Practical Solutions
    • Case Studies in Japanese Negotiating Behavior
    • Negotiating on the Edge: North Korean Negotiating Behavior
    • Chinese Negotiating Behavior: Pursuing Interests Through ‘Old Friends'
    • Russian Negotiating Behavior: Continuity and Transition

The institute has also served U.S. government officials and policymakers.

• Facilitating the Congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture of the United States, Genocide Prevention Task Force, and the bipartisan Iraq Study Group.
• Leading a congressionally mandated, bipartisan task force on United Nations reform.
• Developing a proposal for a comprehensive settlement of the Korean War, which was drawn upon by U.S. government officials in preparation for the Six Party talks.
• Conducting a study of the U.S. government’s state-building capacity that contributed to the creation of the Office of Reconstruction and Stabilization (ORS) in the State Department.