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“Worryingly, stabilization programming actually had the perverse effect of increasing support for the Taliban in Taliban-controlled villages,” said the study, carried out for U.S.A.I.D.
Five years later, the costs and consequences of the uprisings have stunned the world. “Perhaps we in the international community, and the people on the ground, were naïve and misled by how easy the Tunisians made it seem,” Sarah Leah Whitson, the executive director of Human Rights Watch, told me this week.
Last week, a woman in Afghanistan blew herself up after being stopped at a checkpoint in eastern Nangarhar province. She killed an officer and her three children. If suicide bombings themselves are difficult to fathom, then those conducted by women — and in this case by a mother whose own children were among the victims — are virtually impossible.
The fact these votes were cast and counted was a sign of progress in Myanmar, but it does not mean that all is well in parts of the country that have endured warlike conditions for much of the last six decades.
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Secretary of State John Kerry said Thursday that in spite of differences with the United States over the fate of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Russia has been “constructive” in the multinational effort to find a political settlement for Syria.
This is a defining moment for America. It can't get much worse than this. Yet if anything has proven true for Muslims in America over the last decade it is that it can only get worse.
After a Syrian refugee father lost his family to drowning in a failed crossing to Greece, U.S. Institute of Peace President Nancy Lindborg appeared on BBC World News America on December 10 to discuss the risks refugees face, shortcomings in handling the refugee crisis, and the need for a path to peace to end Syria’s civil war that could provide Syrians a viable future.
The sanctions were premised on the demand that “the N.L.D. be given its rightful place in government, and that's happening now,” said Ms. Clapp, now a senior adviser to the U.S. Institute of Peace and the Asia Society. “The U.S. government needs to ...
As America and its allies confront a widened war in Syria, the refugee exodus to Europe, and terrorist violence in Paris, Beirut and Mali, we must treat the roots, not just symptoms, of these catastrophes. That will require an urgent repair of our world’s main tool for addressing violent conflict—the increasingly overwhelmed United Nations peacekeeping system.