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.
In Tunisia, the one nation progressing in the struggle to build a democracy from the Arab Spring revolutions, the governing party of President Beji Caid Essebsi has fractured.
The attacks in Paris on Friday were the deadliest in France since the Second World War. The jihad’s many tentacles have now terrorized Western targets on six continents.
This time, the military and the ruling USDP were “pretty realistic” about their election prospects, said Priscilla Clapp, a former U.S. diplomat in Burma and now a senior adviser to the U.S. Institute of Peace. But they decided that they “can manage it ...
In a recent oped in Foreign Policy, U.S. Institute of Peace President Nancy Lindborg argued that investing in foreign aid rather than border security would be a far more effective approach to managing overwhelming migration. To take this a step further ...
The Jerusalem office of Search for Common Ground, a grantee of the United States Institute of Peace, provides one such example. In partnership with the Jerusalem Intercultural Center, they are working to create a committee of Jewish, Muslim, and ...
... accused of masterminding the 2008 Mumbai attacks, and the Haqqani network which attacks Afghan and Western forces in Kabul. "In the beginning he was very promising," said Moeed Yusuf, director of South Asia programs at the U.S. Institute of Peace.
(Washington, D.C.) — Secretary of State John Kerry outlined the Obama administration’s strategy for Syria today in a speech at the U.S. Institute of Peace before leaving the U.S. for a trip that includes a stop in Vienna to continue talks seeking a diplomatic solution to the country’s civil war.
The NLD “can't govern on its own, but it can govern in partnership with the military,” said Priscilla Clapp, a former U.S. diplomat in Burma and a senior adviser to the Washington-based U.S. Institute of Peace. Besides reserving a quarter of ...
... we need this global effort called "Generation Change" to grow and expand. Omar is associate vice president of the United States Institute of Peace's (USIP) Middle East and Africa Program. Omar also serves on the board of IREX. For more information ...
The U.S. Institute of Peace, too, aims to honor our veterans through daily work enshrined 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 the three decades since USIP was founded, our researchers, trainers, mediators and other experts have increasingly found themselves pursuing their mission of global peacebuilding in the same difficult environments as U.S. ...