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Projects
Conceptual Challenges to Peace
- Cross-Cultural Negotiation Project
The Cross-Cultural Negotiation Project is a long-term effort to understand
how cultural differences influence negotiators and negotiations. At
the center of this project is a series of in-depth country case studies.
Published studies include Richard H. Solomon's Chinese
Negotiating Behavior, Jerrold L. Schecter's Russian
Negotiating Behavior, Scott Snyder's Negotiating
on the Edge: North Korean Negotiating Behavior, and W.R. Smyser's How Germans Negotiate:
Logical Goals, Practical Solutions. Forthcoming
studies will cover Japan, France, and the United States,
among others. Theoretical advances have been described in Raymond
Cohen's Negotiating
Across Cultures, Kevin Avruch's Culture
and Conflict Resolution, and Chas. W. Freeman, Jr.'s Arts
of Power: Statecraft and Diplomacy, all published by the Institute
Press.
- Coercive Diplomacy Project
The Coercive Diplomacy Project seeks to deepen our understanding of
how positive inducements can be combined with punitive instruments,
including the threat or demonstrative use of force, in order to resolve
conflicts. Following up on the pioneering scholarship of Alexander
George, the project is completing an analysis of recent instances
in which the United States attempted to back diplomacy by limited
force.
- Integrated Civilian-Military Planning Working
Group The Integrated Civilian-Military Planning Working Group
analyzes ways to improve interagency and international planning and
coordination to prevent and resolve conflicts.
- Human Rights Implementation Project
The Human Rights Implementation Project seeks to distill lessons learned
from the successes and failures of past U.S. human rights policies
in order to help guide future policymakers. A diverse and distinguished
working group is critically analyzing case studies in each region
of the world, as well as examining the cross-cutting issues relevant
to tomorrow's decision makers.
- International Research Group
on Political Violence The Research and Studies Program co-sponsors
the International Research Group on Political Violence, in cooperation
with Britain's Airey Neave Trust. The study group brings together
leading experts on political violence and terrorism to deepen our
knowledge of why political violence occurs and how it can best be
curtailed. Meetings have delved into a wide array of subjects, including
how terrorism ends, how terrorism interacts with the diplomacy of
peace processes, and how weapons-of-mass-destruction terrorism can
best be averted.
Regional Challenges to Peace
- Africa The Institute has recently undertaken
in-depth investigations on the conflict zones in Central Africa, the
Horn of Africa, and East Africa. Periodic meetings and field research
in African zones of conflict are planned for the months ahead.
- Asia-Pacific Region The Research
and Studies Program conducts frequent working group meetings directed
toward managing conflicts, reducing tension, building confidence,
and advancing reconciliation on the Korean Peninsula. In addition,
efforts are underway to examine options for reducing tension and preventing
conflict in other regional flash points, including the Taiwan Strait,
the South China Sea, South Asia, and Indonesia.
- Europe and Russia Research and
Studies continues to focus on prospects for transatlantic cooperation
and for Europe's continued peaceful evolution. The primary emphasis
of the Future of Europe Project's high-profile Russia Working Group
is to identify effective U.S. and European political, economic, and
security policies to ensure Russia's long-term Western orientation
and integration into Europe.
- Middle East Research and Studies engages
in a program of meetings, research, and writing on many of the key
challenges to peace in the Middle East. Those challenges include the
ongoing conflicts between Iraq and the international community, the
various Arab-Israeli peace processes, and reversing 20 years of adversarial
relations between the United States and Iran.
- Latin America Research and Studies, in cooperation with other
Institute programs, supports periodic meetings on conflict resolution
in Latin America. Recent workshops have focused on the 1992 Salvadoran
peace accords and conflict in Colombia.
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