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"But Mr Khan's path to victory in the next general election, set for mid-2018, is far from assured," the report said quoting analysts, including Moeed Yusuf, Associate Vice President of the Asia Centre at the United States Institute of Peace, whose research and work centres on Pakistan.
It is with the deepest sadness that the U.S. Institute of Peace mourns the passing of our beloved colleague Virginia M. “Ginny” Bouvier, the institute’s senior advisor for peace processes. Ginny passed away July 29, surrounded by her family, after a prolonged illness.
Es con la más profunda tristeza, el Instituto de Paz de los Estados Unidos lamenta el fallecimiento de nuestra querida colega Virginia M. "Ginny" Bouvier, la alta consejera del instituto para los procesos de paz. Ginny falleció el 29 de julio, rodeada de su familia, después de una prolongada enfermedad.
Despite enormous gains in poverty reduction and a long, steady drop in global violence over the past 70 years, progress is stubbornly stalled in those states considered most fragile. In the last decade, rising levels of violent conflict in states and regions like Syria, South Sudan, Yemen, Libya, Nigeria, and East Africa have spawned four civil wars, the specter of four famines, and historic numbers of people displaced by violence, all of which are straining the global humanitarian system and threatening precious development gains.
Moeed Yusuf, associate vice president of the Asia Centre at the United States Institute of Peace, Washington, told The New York Times that while Mr Khan played a key role in highlighting the Panama Papers case, the verdict against Mr Sharif did not assure his victory in the 2018 elections.
Mr. Khan's path to victory in the next general election, set for mid-2018, is far from assured, according to analysts, including Moeed Yusuf, associate vice president of the Asia Center at the United States Institute of Peace. “In some ways, this is a clear victory; there is no question about that,” Mr. Yusuf, who is visiting Pakistan, said in an interview. “Sans Panama Papers scandal, PML-N, the ruling party, was sitting pretty for the next elections.”
“The election campaign has begun, and it will be Sharif’s to lose,” said Moeed Yusuf, a Pakistan expert at the U.S. Institute of Peace. With Sharif still facing possible prosecution for financial misdeeds, Yusuf said, his best chance is to quickly “declare martyrdom” and offer himself as a shadow leader to the party faithful. “Right now they are energized, and if they think his patronage will hold, the party will have a better chance.”
Ella prefería que le llamáramos Ginny. Ahora Ginny está en nuestros corazones, de cientos de colombianos que tuvimos la alegría de conocerle y trabajar con ella por una Colombia en paz.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Congressman Jim McGovern (D-MA), a senior House Democrat and leading voice on human rights, delivered the following remarks on the House floor to honor Virginia “Ginny” Bouvier, a Senior Advisor for Peace Processes at the U.S. Institute of Peace and the director of its Colombia Program. Congressman McGovern has worked with Ginny Bouvier on Latin American policy throughout his career and praised her as a powerful voice for peace in the region.