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.
As Americans’ eyes remain fixated on the final collapse of the U.S. nation-building project in Afghanistan, people across the Greater Middle East are reflecting on a decade of disappointed hopes that followed the eruption of popular uprisings 10 years ago. In 2011, the Arab Spring...
Donald Trump made the politically popular pledge to bring U.S. troops home from the nation’s longest war. Now Joe Biden is delivering on the promise -- and reaping growing criticism over the grim results that are unfolding in Afghanistan. The U.S.-trained Afghan military is shrinking back as Taliban insurgents...
Against the odds, there is once again movement toward negotiations in Venezuela’s forever-crisis. Last month, Venezuela’s two presidents —Nicolás Maduro, who claimed victory in deeply flawed elections in 2018, and Juan Guaidó, the young National Assembly president who assumed the...
President Joe Biden is sending about 3,000 U.S. troops to Kabul to help evacuate more diplomats from the U.S. embassy, underscoring just how badly the U.S. has been caught off-guard by the speed of the Taliban’s advance across Afghanistan as American forces withdraw. The State Department is...
The Pentagon is sending roughly 3,000 American troops to Kabul to help evacuate many of the U.S. Embassy employees there. This comes as the Taliban continues to gain ground in Afghanistan just before U.S. troops officially withdraw. “We believe this is the prudent thing to do given the rapidly deteriorating...
Local teacher Haydee Rodriguez of El Centro has been chosen as the first teacher in California to participate in the US Institute of Peace’s (USIP) Peace Teacher’s Program, representing the entire West Coast this school year in the prestigious nationwide program. Rodriguez — a Central Union High School...
For many years, political scientists and other experts on Russia—from the United States, Europe and Russia itself—have disagreed on the prospects for Russia's policies toward the United States, and the West more broadly, after Vladimir Putin is no longer president. Views in this simmering debate run the gamut...
Since the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, concerns emerged about its impacts on armed conflict, violence, and peace. Some have argued that the pandemic could accelerate the rising numbers of civil conflicts around the world, a trend already underway. Others have warned that absent new efforts...
Ethiopia’s government on Tuesday summoned all capable citizens to war, urging them to join the country’s military to stop resurgent forces from the embattled Tigray region “once and for all.” The call to arms is an ominous sign that all of Ethiopia’s 110 million people are being drawn into...
When the political officer of the US embassy in Islamabad met with top Taliban official Jalaluddin Haqqani in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi in May 1999, neither the US government nor Haqqani knew that it would be the last major exchange between the two parties before war between them would...