The Program on Peace-building and Human Rights is an applied research endeavor taking a comprehensive approach to peace-building through humanitarian assistance, human rights, economic development, and political participation. The Program operates in Sudan, Iraq, Turkey, Sri Lanka, the Balkans and the Caucasus. Activities involve dialogue initiatives, educational exchanges and curriculum reforms that reduce hostile perceptions, as well as cooperative projects with practical social and economic benefits. The Program on Peace-building and Human Rights enhances preventive diplomacy by focusing on strategies to break the cycle of violence.

Program on Peace-building and Human Rights Press

Interview on the Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt
NPR, April 12, 2011

Talking to the Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt
Egypt Daily News, March 30, 2011

Part of the problem
Today's Zaman, March 21, 2011

Darfur's development gap
Boston Globe, August 3, 2008

Linking Development and Peace in Darfur - A Note
Cairo Times, April 21, 2010

Developing incentives for peace in Darfur
RightsNews, February 2010

Conflict Prevention: It Worked One Time — Why Not Another?
The Interdependent, a publication of the United Nations Association of the USA, March 8, 2011

Intervention: Lessons from the past provide guidelines for US action in Libya
The Boston Globe, March 9, 2011

Commercial Contact and Conflict Prevention: The Georgia-Abkhaz Case.
Harriman Review

Bullets to Ballots: Violent Muslim Movements in Transition
Transaction Publishers, 2009

Power Grab in Albania
Illyria Newspaper, January 25, 2011

Transforming Turkey
Today's Zaman, September 18, 2010

International Reconciliation Models
Istanbul Policy Center, June, 2010

The Balkans Underbelly
World Policy Institute, Fall 2010