Congratulations on USAID Administrator’s Confirmation
The United States Institute of Peace congratulates Gayle Smith on her Senate confirmation as the Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
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Speaking Peace to Power - Real Change News
Not many people know that the United States has a federally funded peacekeeping program. The U.S. Institute of Peace (usip) sends people overseas to countries that are having internal conflicts — including civil wars — and tries to bring together opposing sides and ideologies to talk and find common interests.
US Institute of Peace educates local youth - Montgomery Advertiser
In order to talk about peace, one must first talk about conflict, but open dialogue is always a step in the right direction. That's the message Ann-Louise Colgan, director of the U.S. Institute of Peace's (USIP) Global Peacebuilding Center, shared with ...
In Memoriam: Sandy Berger
“Sandy was a really fine person and a devoted -- and effective -- public servant,” said USIP Board Chair Steve Hadley. “It was a privilege over the last few years to have been able to work with him on a number of bipartisan foreign policy projects. The foreign policy community will miss his sharp mind and strong commitment to our country.” Sandy served as Deputy Director of Policy Planning for the U.S. Department of State from 1977 to 1980 during the Carter administration and as Presiden...
U.S. Institute of Peace Expert to Provide Congressional Testimony on Afghanistan Strategy
(Washington) -- Andrew Wilder, vice president of Asia Programs at the United States Institute of Peace will testify before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Middle East and North Africa on Wednesday, December 2, as part of an expert panel charged with “Assessing the President’s Strategy in Afghanistan.” The hearing will be in Rayburn 2172 at 2:00 p.m.
The Iran Deal Wasn't Revolutionary - Foreign Policy (blog)
The nuclear accord may have been historic, but it didn't turn the tide of acrimonious relations between Washington and Tehran. BY Robin Wright. Those clarion pivots — Nelson Mandela's walk to freedom or the fall of the Berlin Wall — are enchanting.
The Rubble - Strewn Road To Damascus - The New Yorker
A biblical land and its people are being wiped out by weapons of the twenty-first century. Syria, after almost five years of war, is strewn with the rubble of a shattered state, a fractured society, and a demolished landscape.
Renewed Violence in Central African Republic
(Washington) - On Monday, November 30 at 12:30 pm USIP invites you to join the Great Lakes Policy Forum and editors of Making Sense of the Central African Republic to discuss the roots of the recent upswing in violence in the Central African Republic.
Anti-ISIL coalition courts Russia to destroy ISIL - euronews
However, as to the Russians' political pliability, William Taylor, Vice President of the Washington, DC-based US Institute of Peace said: “They are not yet part of the solution in Syria. As long as they continue to support Bashar al-Assad in Syria ...
Bring religion back into the public square - Newsday
It's hard to be a Muslim and have faith. The escalation of violence across the world — often rooted in religious extremism — tests the beliefs of a Muslim woman like myself. This crisis of faith stems not only from violence in the Muslim world. It ...