Peace and Stability
About this Program
Progress toward peace and stability across Asia and the Pacific is threatened by long-standing tensions and emerging risks. Through policy research, capacity support, and local initiatives, The Asia Foundation responds to violence and entrenched conflicts as well as new challenges that threaten to undermine decades of progress including geopolitical instability, accelerating environmental change, and transnational crime. Ongoing programs strengthen peacebuilding efforts and transitional institutions, support responsive subnational governance, improve justice and services where the state has limited reach or legitimacy, amplify local voices, engage policymakers on mitigating conflict, and improve the safety of online spaces.
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In Asia, the Middle East and Africa, conflict and instability endure in contested border regions where local tensions connect with regional and global dynamics. The Asia Foundation, the Rift Valley Institute and the Carnegie Middle East Center are working together to better understand the causes and impacts of conflict in these border areas and their international dimensions, support more effective policymaking and development programming, and build the capacity of their local partners to leverage research to advocate for peaceful change.
Subnational Conflict
Subnational conflict is the most widespread, enduring, and deadly form of conflict in Asia. Many subnational conflict areas are poorly understood by outsiders and easily overshadowed by larger geopolitical issues, bilateral relations, and national development challenges. The Asia Foundation is part of the effort to better understand subnational conflict.
Program Highlights
Peace and Stability News
Recent Publications
International Peace Support and Effective Peacebuilding in Myanmar
Governing at the Margins: A Patchwork of Policies and Practices in the Rohingya Refugee Response in Bangladesh
The State of Civic Peacebuilding in South and Southeast Asia, 2023
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