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 andeconomic benefits. The Program on Peace-building and Human Rights enhances preventive diplomacy by focusing on strategies to break the cycle of violence.
Diplomatic History: The Turkey-Armenia Protocols
“Diplomatic History: The Turkey-Armenia Protocols” by ISHR Peace-building Program Director, David L. Phillips, is an innovative monograph that provides an insider’s account of the negotiations which resulted in the 2009 Protocol on the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations and the Protocol on the Development of Bilateral Relations between the Republic of Turkey and the Republic of Armenia. The research includes original interviews with participants, analysis and a set of recommendations to revitalize Turkish-Armenian rapprochement.
Program on Peace-building and Human Rights Press
The following article was published in the Tirana Times, Illyria, Balkan
Insight, and on the web site of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in
Serbia (April 13, 2012):
Serbia Is Showing Its Anti-European Side By David L. Phillips
Arrest and treatment of Kosovo trade unionist Hasan Abazi should send alarm
bells ringing in Washington and Brussels about the true nature of Serbia’s
supposedly pro-Western government.
Peace-building Program Seeks to Heal Wounds of War
On Campus, News from Across the University, Columbia University, March 22, 2012
ISHR Works to Build Trust Among Students in Post-Conflict Sri Lanka
RightsNews, February 2012
America’s role in the Arab Spring
The Daily News Egypt, February 15, 2012
A Flourishing Albanian ‘Neighborhood’ Benefits the Balkans
Balkan Insight, February 13, 2012
Measuring the Cost of War in Darfur
Africa.com, January 25, 2012
“Kristallnacht in Khartoum”
Sudan Tribune, October 12, 2011
“Too much patience risks renewed violence in Georgia,”
Washington Times, September 2, 2011
Kosovo’s Successful Use of Violence
Balkan Insight, August 17, 2011
Trade Can Build Peace in Georgia and Abkhazia
Moscow Times, 03 August 2011
Macedonia Must Recover the Spirit of Ohrid
Balkan Insight, July 6, 2011
Less Drama From Albania’s Socialist Leader
Balkan Insight, June 28, 2011
David Phillips, NPR Interview: Nation-Building in South Sudan and New Nations Gaining Independence
NPR, June 14, 2011
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
