peace-keeping

Nonviolent Action and Peacebuilding: Contradictory or Complementary?

SWJED — Sun, 02 Feb 2020 05:48:12 +0000

Nonviolent Action and Peacebuilding: Contradictory or Complementary? SWJED Sun, 02/02/2020 - 12:48am

Since Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, the nonviolent action team here at USIP has been reflecting on what Dr. King’s life and legacy teach us about the deep links between nonviolent action and peacebuilding. As we watch protesters in Hong Kong, Iraq, or Lebanon directly confront their governments, there may not seem to be much connection between people hitting the streets and building lasting peace. But for King, the connection was inevitable and inseparable, and practitioners of both disciplines have much to offer one another.

Women Peace and Security: A Competitive Edge in Latin America’s Human Domain

SWJED — Tue, 18 Jun 2019 05:31:14 +0000

Women Peace and Security: A Competitive Edge in Latin America’s Human Domain SWJED Tue, 06/18/2019 - 1:31am

The institutions of the U.S. national security community have recognized, but just begun to remedy, a gap in how they interact with conflict environments: the failure to understand how gender and warfare intertwine. The 2017 Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) Act provides a clarion call for operationalizing a gender perspective at each command level and in nearly all activities in the environment.

Notes from Kabul: Thoughts on Building Peace and Nations in an Insurgency

Peter J. Munson — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 08:30:00 +0000

Notes from Kabul: Thoughts on Building Peace and Nations in an Insurgency Peter J. Munson Thu, 01/17/2013 - 3:30am

Observations from a month-long secondment in Afghanistan with DCOMISAF.