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Articles, publications, books, tools and multimedia features from the U.S. Institute of Peace provide the latest news, analysis, research findings, practitioner guides and reports, all related to the conflict zones and issues that are at the center of the Institute’s work to prevent and reduce violent conflict.

Question And Answer

## Will the IMF’s $7 Billion Bailout Stabilize Pakistan’s Economy?

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Analysis

## To Address Sexual Violence in Conflict, Don’t Overlook People with Disabilities

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Analysis

## How to Advance the Evidence-base for Strategic Religious Engagement

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### How to Advance the Evidence-base for Strategic Religious Engagement

Wednesday, September 25, 2024

**By:**Jason Klocek, Ph.D.;  Charity Beam  

Last September, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) released its first-ever strategic religious engagement (SRE) policy. During its first year, the framework has won praise from a wide range of policymakers and diplomats. Not only does the policy affirm the critical role of religious actors as partners in advancing shared development and peacebuilding goals, but it also provides guidance for collaboration with these religious communities and faith-based organizations (FBOs). 

**Type:**Analysis

**Religion

### To Address Sexual Violence in Conflict, Don’t Overlook People with Disabilities

Wednesday, September 25, 2024

**By:**    Sydney Johnson;  Elizabeth Murray

Sexual violence is a heinous crime that can affect anyone in conflict zones around the world. However, those with disabilities are often at greater risk of sexual violence than their counterparts without disabilities. Despite this, programs and policies for addressing conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) rarely focus on how people with disabilities are uniquely affected, yet alone the best ways to prevent such violence, support survivors and seek justice.

**Type:**Analysis

**Gender;  Human Rights

### Will the IMF’s $7 Billion Bailout Stabilize Pakistan’s Economy?

Wednesday, September 25, 2024

**By:**    Shahbaz Rana;  Sanjay Kathuria;  Asfandyar Mir, Ph.D.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved a $7 billion loan for Pakistan aimed at helping the South Asian nation stabilize its economy. After assuming power earlier this year, Pakistan’s new coalition government led by the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) had approached the IMF for the 25th time for a loan. On September 12, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said his country had met all the conditions set by the IMF to qualify for a new loan. And on September 25, the IMF signed a formal approval of the loan.

**Type:**Question and Answer

**Economics

### Out of the Spotlight, Myanmar’s Rohingya Face Worst Violence in 7 Years

Wednesday, September 25, 2024

**By:**    Laetitia van den Assum  

Since early 2024, fighting in northern Rakhine state has led to the worst attacks on the Rohingya population since 2017, when Myanmar’s military drove more than 750,000 across the border into Bangladesh. The new attacks are a stark reminder of the Rohingyas’ vulnerability. The world has known about their plight for decades, and in 2024, only 636,000 Rohingya — or 23 percent of the 2.8 million Rohingya around the world — still live in their homeland, Myanmar. 

**Type:**Analysis

**Conflict Analysis & Prevention;  Global Policy;  Human Rights

### Andrew Cheatham on the U.N.’s ‘Pact for the Future’

Tuesday, September 24, 2024

**By:**Andrew Cheatham

After dealing with “growing cynicism and lack of participation” in recent years, the U.N. General Assembly opened this week by adopting the Pact for the Future, which represents commitments from 193 countries to “really reform global governance as we know it,” says USIP’s Andrew Cheatham.

**Type:**Podcast

**Global Policy

### In Vietnam, Excavating the Past Can Help Heal the Losses of War

Tuesday, September 24, 2024

**By:**    Richard Magner;  Bob Connor;  Tô Thị Bảy;  Jeanie Jacobs Huffman  

Since 2021, USIP’s Vietnam War Legacies and Reconciliation Initiative has contributed to stronger U.S.-Vietnam relations through research, communications and exchange about ongoing legacies of war in Indochina. One of our priorities is the location and identification of missing persons from all sides of the war — work that is being led by American and Vietnamese citizens together with both countries’ governments. An estimated 300,000 Vietnamese families are still waiting for information about the location of their loved ones lost in the war.

**Type:**Question and Answer

**Reconciliation

### Amid International Silence, Guinea’s Coup Regime Imperils Transition

Thursday, September 19, 2024

**By:**Shobit Manchanda

Over the past three years, the Sahel and West Africa have seen an alarming number of military coups. With the region’s stability and security hanging in the balance, the international community has promoted peaceful democratic transitions (and found early success in Gabon). Meanwhile, coup regimes in countries like Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger — which recently formed the Alliance of Sahel States (AES) — have sought closer cooperation with China and Russia, prompting concern and dismay from supporters of democracy. Often lost in all this tumult is Guinea, which saw its own coup d’état in September 2021. Unlike some of its counterparts, the Guinean military has managed to avoid the attention, engagement or scrutiny of the West as it continues to entrench itself in power.

**Type:**Analysis

**Democracy & Governance

### Where is Afghanistan Three Years into Taliban Rule?

Thursday, September 19, 2024

**By:**Belquis Ahmadi;   Joyana Richer;  Jill Baggerman;  William Byrd, Ph.D.;  Scott Worden

Lacking formal recognition from all member states, the Taliban will not be present at the U.N. General Assembly next week. Their absence speaks volumes about how the international community struggles to constrain a regime that has repeatedly defied U.N. treaties, sanctions and Security Council resolutions. Three years into Taliban rule, the Afghan people are beset by a host of human rights, economic and humanitarian challenges, with women and girls particularly impacted. Meanwhile, the international community still has no clear approach to dealing with the Taliban, with the regime rejecting a U.N. Security Council resolution calling for a special envoy to develop a roadmap for normalizing Afghanistan’s relations with the international community. 

**Type:**Question and Answer

**Economics;  Gender;  Global Policy;  Human Rights

### Why the UN’s Future Summit Matters Amid Today’s Global Crises

Thursday, September 19, 2024

**By:**Andrew Cheatham

It is that time of the year again. World leaders are converging in New York for the launch of the 79th  U.N. General Assembly. With every passing year, the global trends away from multilateral approaches and structures that ensure peace, security and global stability leave humanity in a growing state of precarity. That, however, should demand a penetrating call for less cynicism, not more.

**Type:**Analysis

**Global Policy

### On Asia Trip, Pope Francis Uses his Bully Pulpit

Thursday, September 19, 2024

**By:**Gordon Peake, Ph.D.

Pope Francis wrapped up the largest, farthest trip of his pontificate last week, which encapsulated his position as a simultaneous spiritual and political figure. 

**Type:**Analysis

**Religion

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