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US and Iraqi experts discuss opportunities and achieve peace, stability and dialogue in the areas liberated from the control of Daesh.
U.S. Institute of Peace President Nancy Lindborg discussed the global refugee crisis and a speech about it by Ambassador Samantha Power, the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, with Tim Farley of the SIRIUS XM POTUS channel.
50 años de conflicto interno entre el gobierno y las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia, FARC, llegaron a su final. En un comunicado conjunto, las partes anunciaron, desde La Habana, que llegaron con éxito a un acuerdo sobre cese al fuego bilateral y definitivo y la dejación de armas.
“Some military units clearly viewed rape as a legitimate means of demoralizing and degrading their enemies,” Clapp said. “Yes, that was used. It still is, unfortunately.” “In reality, the military government was using violence against everybody, not just women,” she continued. “The army was an equal-opportunity violence machine, aimed at men, women, and children.”
Nancy Lindborg spoke with Aubrey Fox, Exective Director of the Institute for Economics and Peace-USA, about the challenge of translating rhetorical support for conflict prevention and Positive Peace into practical reality, the refugee crisis as a peace issue, how the US military can be a critical peace partner and her plans for USIP in the years ahead.
The Obama Administration has long been divided over what to do about Syria. The crisis produced one of the biggest differences between President Obama and Hillary Clinton, his first Secretary of State. The policy chasm has only deepened during the five years of conflict, which has now reportedly claimed almost half a million lives.
Interview with Nancy Lindborg President, US Institute of Peace. Share on ... Nancy Lindborg has been the President of the United States Institute of Peace since February 2015. She previously served .... AF: So let's talk about USIP for a moment. How do ...
John Norris told Foreign Policy readers that the Istanbul conference would be irrelevant. It wasn’t.
“We gather regularly as gay Muslims,” he told me, as he fasted during Ramadan. “At the beginning, we ask why God has cursed us with this identity. We leave saying we are blessed with this identity. Why? When you’re born into this world as a Muslim, you are given a set of personal struggles. It’s your jihad. It’s not a holy war. It’s a personal struggle to get closer to God. And what better way to get closer to God than through loving people?”
(Washington, D.C.) – A day after the United States’ deadliest-ever mass shooting, His Holiness the Dalai Lama led a Washington audience in a silent prayer for peace—but said prayers will be ineffective without “serious action” to erode religious and other communal divisions.