Eight military coup attempts across the greater Sahel — five of them successful — have made this African region the epicenter of a global crisis: military putsches in countries struggling with poor governance, extremism, violence and related ills. On February 23, USIP hosted a discussion with experts from across the foreign policy community on ways to counter this trend toward authoritarianism and make U.S. and international support for democracy more effective.
Since 2019, USIP — in partnership with USAID — has convened a working group to study how elite capture in security sectors contributes to...
The incidence of conflict-related sexual violence varies between conflicts and even within conflicts, and so do responses to this violence. On November 1, panelists...
Three decades on from the Oslo Accords, water remains a driver of conflict and competition in the Israeli-Palestinian diplomatic arena. However, advances in technology...