Fears Of Genocide In The World's Newest Nation - NPR
Speaking via Skype to the U.S. Institute of Peace, Lynch said the government of South Sudan and the opposition are mobilizing forces in areas that had been spared in recent years.
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South Sudan: Washington Panel Discusses Options in Preventing Violence - AllAfrica.com
On Thursday, panelists gathered by the United States Institute of Peace and the Holocaust Memorial Museum discussed how to prevent mass atrocities in the country where many observers have said that type of violence is being used for ethnic cleansing.
Fears Of Genocide In The World's Newest Nation - WVTF
KELEMEN: Speaking via Skype to the U.S. Institute of Peace, Lynch said the government of South Sudan and the opposition are mobilizing forces in areas that had been spared in recent years. Hate speech is spreading. Rape is widespread, and Lynch ...
Standing by Colombia for peace, as in war - The Hill
When Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos accepts his Nobel Peace Prize this week in Oslo for pursuing an end to a half century of conflict, Americans can take a measure of pride. Through the administrations of three U.S. presidents, Democratic and Republican, the United States has backed Colombia with focused and strategic diplomatic, military and development support.
The Future Of Assad, Syria And The Region47:08 - WBUR
Aleppo looks set to fall to Assad, a turning point in Syria's awful war. We'll ask if Assad now looks set to win, and what that means for Syria and the region. Smoke rises after rebel fighters launch a mortar shell on residential neighborhood in west ...
The chief’s choice - DAWN.com
Incoming army chief Gen Bajwa takes over at a time when Pakistan is already on the road to recovery. Since 2010, the country has experienced a significant reduction in terrorist violence. The economy has also begun to rebound. Gen Bajwa and the civilian government could keep doing more of the same to achieve further in...
How we can use 'peace data' to stop extremism before it starts - The Hill (blog)
Violent extremist groups like Boko Haram and al-Shabaab regularly make global headlines, and the Syrian refugee crisis is only getting worse. Yet the United States Institute of Peace-sponsored PeaceTech Summit 2016 brought forward some new ...
The Hand of ISIS at Ohio State - The New Yorker
The motives behind the rampage at Ohio State University, on Monday, by Abdul Razak Ali Artan, an eighteen-year-old Somali-born student, have yet to be determined, but the event could have come straight out of the Islamic State’s manual—and it appears to have inspired him.
An India-Pakistan Crisis: Should We Care? - War On The Rocks
The world has recently been reminded of just how tenuous the India-Pakistan relationship remains. Bilateral tensions have been alarmingly high since a September 18 terrorist attack in Uri in the disputed territory of Kashmir killed 19 Indian soldiers.
“Dead or alive” Pakistan's war against the Taliban - VICE News
“The Pakistani people are so fed up of the violence that they're looking the other way and saying 'whatever you do, just make us safe, we'll live with that,' said Moeed Yusuf of U.S. Institute of Peace. “So that's how they've approached this.” Since ...