Experts from the U.S. Institute of Peace provide the latest analysis and perspective on the world’s critical hot spots, U.S. and global security and issues involved in violent conflict, based on the Institute’s work on the ground and with key individuals, governments and organizations. They give interviews and background briefings to journalists and write for news outlets around the world.
Andrew Wilder spoke to SiriusXM POTUS Ch. 124 about recent events in Afghanistan. Wilder explained the necessity for brokering a political solution with the Taliban and providing more U.S. troops for training Afghan National Security Forces to defeat terrorist organization like ISIS and al-Qaeda.
Accounts then quickly diverged over just who was responsible for the terrorist rampage. The Islamic State claimed credit for its first-ever attack in Iran. Soon after the attacks, ISIS released a twenty-four-second video through its Amaq news agency, which showed a rifle-toting gunman in parliament, standing over a bloodied body. The attacker invoked terms used in ISIS propaganda about the group’s ability to survive in the Middle East even as it loses its caliphate in neighboring Iraq and Syria.
The Institute of Peace, an independent institute founded by Congress in 1984, traces its roots back to the UCC — particularly the former members and pastors of Rock Spring UCC in Arlington, Va. UCC leaders believe a move to shutter the USIP would be short-sighted, should Congress authorize it in a spending bill.
In a recent talk, Nancy Lindborg, president of the United States Institute of Peace, said it is “blindingly clear that we need to think more about getting ahead of the conflict curve if we hope to address rising humanitarian and security challenges, so we’re not reacting after people’s lives have been torn apart.”
Donald Trump's budget would cut vital nonmilitary tools for helping avoid war
Defeating violent extremism in Iraq and securing U.S. interests in the country’s peaceful future requires a range of economic, political and military support, including more reconciliation initiatives such as those undertaken by the U.S. Institute of Peace, an Atlantic Council-led task force said in a report released today.
The U.S. Institute of Peace joins those mourning the loss of Zbigniew Brzezinski, a former national security advisor to President Jimmy Carter who went on to influence American foreign policy thinking for decades afterwards as a thinker, speaker, lecturer and prolific writer. The institute and its audiences benefitted from Mr. Brzezinski’s insights on a number of occasions over decades as he lent his expertise and experience to working groups or other major national security discussions.
In the modern era of the U.S. quasi-imperial experiment, the State Department, USIP, and the Wilson Center have been vital foundations of national power designed to project our values for generations.
The 50 North Carolina high school students taking classes in “Global Issues” and “Global Cultures” hadn’t thought much about Europe as an issue that needed their attention. But that was before their teacher, Matt Cone, decided to ask a secretary of state for advice. Four months of research and 100 interviews later, the Carrboro High School students were asking questions about U.S. relations with Turkey, contentious elections in Europe, and the effect of globalization on jobs and trade.
Ten hours after Salman Abedi blew himself up outside the Manchester Arena, where the American pop star Ariana Grande was performing, ISIS claimed a grisly attack that killed twenty-two people and injured dozens more. “With Allah’s grace and support, a soldier of the Khilafah (caliphate) managed to place explosive devices in the midst of the gatherings of the Crusaders in the British city of Manchester,” the group boasted on social messaging apps, in multiple languages. The odd thing—for a group that has usually been judicious about its claims and accurate in its facts—is that it got key details wrong.