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.
The performances, part of the Voter Education and Fraud Mitigation project of the NYC-based Bond Street Theater and supported by the United States Institute of Peace (USIP), operate in areas that are isolated, conservative and volatile, and often ...
In a recent USIP publication, Bill Byrd, Casey Garret Johnson, and Sanaullah Tasal described some of this hedging behavior. This includes people ... Scott Smith is the Director for Afghanistan and Pakistan Programs for the United States Institute of Peace.
Other groups with support from the U.S. Institute of Peace are carrying out engagement activities like rap contests to find an election anthem. The winners were awarded $ 1000 and their videos were posted on YouTube: Official Election Anthem by Sami ...
According to Manal Omar, an Associate Vice President at the the U. S. Institute for Peace, that strategy helps filmmakers tackle controversial topics governments may not want discussed. She says artists throughout the Middle East are being forced to ...
“The democratic aspirations of the protesters who filled streets and public squares across Syria in early 2011 were among the conflict's first casualties,” Steven Heydemann, of the Center for Applied Research on Conflict at the United States Institute ...
The scenarios are based on the 2006 war with Israel, which Hezbollah says it won. “As game development cycles go, that's very quick,” says Derek Gildea, a games designer and Middle East specialist with the U.S. Institute of Peace. On his own time ...
U.S. officials dismiss his re-election as a farce. But for Assad, the vote signals a sharper confrontation to come, according to U.S. Institute of Peace analyst Steve Heydemann. "We have a Syrian regime that is going to dig in, is going to insist on ...
“It's been a big problem from the very beginning,” said Andrew Wilder, vice president of South and Central Asia programs at the United States Institute of Peace. It is unclear exactly how much money has been stolen. SIGAR is conducting an audit. The ...
On June 3, in a parody of democracy, Bashar al-Assad will be reelected as president of Syria for his third seven-year term. If he serves out this term, Assad will be eligible to run for a fourth term in 2021 that would extend his presidency to 28 years -- two years short of his father's tenure. Syrians may yet be spared almost six decades of direct Assad family rule, but the outcome of Tuesday's vote is a foregone conclusion.
Rising global violence threatens more than humanity's collective conscience. In 2014, America should seize two critical opportunities to address it.