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.
The US poll result has taken most by surprise. The polling industry and media pundits have been trying to figure out why their projections predicting a Clinton win failed. There have been several explanations: Clinton’s voters didn’t come out in some places; polls overestimated women’s support for her; more Republicans voted for Trump than expected, etc.
The U.S. Institute of Peace honors our veterans through its daily work as mandated by Congress at the Institute’s founding: “to promote international peace and the resolution of conflicts among the nations and peoples of the world without recourse to violence.” In three decades since Congress established the Institute, our researchers, trainers, mediators and other experts—including numerous veterans—increasingly have pursued our mission in the same difficult environments as U.S. military ...
The first world leader to telephone Trump after his victory was Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, a former field marshal who orchestrated a military coup, in 2013, against a democratically elected President from the Muslim Brotherhood...
As the election dust settles, the new president-elect will have a full agenda of pressing domestic and international issues. One issue we can’t lose sight of is the state fragility at the heart of a rising number of global crises, from a new wave of civil wars, historic numbers of people displaced by violent conflict, increased fears of pandemics and new, more virulent forms of global terror.
With no wider framework for reconciliation, Osama Gharizi, the regional program manager at the United States Institute of Peace, has been working at the grass-roots level across Iraq...
For the past two weeks, as Mosul has become the epicenter of a new U.S.-backed offensive to defeat isis—also known as isil—Mosul Eye has been posting dozens of times a day on its social-media outlets...
The loss of Dabiq, in Syria, and the launching of the largest offensive ever conducted against isis, in Iraq, led Obama Administration officials to predict that isis is finally being broken. “This is more than just the latest military result against this barbaric group,” Defense Secretary Ash Carter said in a statement.
Governors of all 19 states in northern Nigeria are expected to spend three days in Washington DC next week at the invitation of the United States Institute of Peace (USIP). They will be participating in the Northern Nigeria Governors' Symposium from ...
For fifteen years, the National Museum of Beirut was one of the most dangerous places in the world’s most violent city. It was in the middle of the deadly Green Line, which divided more than a dozen warring militias. It marked one of only five crossing points between the Muslim west and the Christian east.
A conference titled “ISIS and Sex Slavery: Moving from Condemnation to Action,” organized by the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) and the McCain Institute for International Leadership, highlighted sex slavery as a tactic of war and terrorism.