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Analyst Raza Rumi, a journalist and senior fellow at the United States Institute of Peace, warned that ending militancy would mean also putting an end to attitudes deeply ingrained in Pakistani society. “Three decades of Islamisation and the espousal ...
Assessing the Arab Spring Uprisings After Four Years During a trip to the Syrian war front in October, my interpreter, Mesud Perik, lamented, “No one thought it would take this long or be this hard.” Robin Wright is a joint fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace and the Woodrow Wilson International Center ...
The real reasons why the Pakistani Taliban murdered more than 100 ... Colin Cookman, a senior program specialist at the US Institute of Peace who focuses on South and Central Asia, told me via email that the military's previous operations had been localized, limited in scope, and retaliatory rather than proactive: the ...
Washington Should Supply Heavy Weapons to Ukraine: Former US Ambassador WASHINGTON, December 17 (Sputnik) — The United States should be providing crisis-torn Ukraine with heavy defensive weapons, former US ambassador to the country and current president of the US Institute of Peace, William B. Taylor, has told Sputnik.
Peshawar Attack Highlights Pakistan's Contradictory Approach To Different ... “The 'good' Taliban are viewed as those who do not attack the state of Pakistan but attack its enemy states, such as India, or Afghanistan when it's not totally on Pakistan's side,” said Raza Rumi, a senior fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace and a ...
Egypt's Crackdown on Political Speech Wall Street Journal (blog) This episode, and Egypt's growing abuse of human rights, indicate how surprisingly vulnerable the government of former general Abdel Fattah Al Sisi must feel. Robin Wright is a joint fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace and the Woodrow Wilson ...
Ambassador Oakley’s eminent career included leading U.S. diplomatic missions in Zaire, Somalia and Pakistan, as well as serving as director of the State Department’s Office of Combatting Terrorism and then as assistant to the president for the Middle East and South Asia at the National Security Council. In December 1992, President George H.W. Bush named Ambassador Oakley to be special envoy for Somalia with Operation Restore Hope until March 1993. In October 1993, President Bill Clinton asked...
US Institute of Peace South Asia Programme Director Moeed Yusuf said that Afghanistan was going to be dependent on international aid for the foreseeable future. “The problem is that the international community is growing disinterested in Afghanistan ...
“The borders that were designed by the British and the French rather arbitrarily a century ago are now being decisively challenged by ISIS,” said Robin Wright, a scholar at the United States Institute of Peace and the Wilson Centre, using an ...
Giving peace a chance Rarely do so many distinguished members of the foreign policy community gather in a single room. But this was the Great Hall of the United States Institute of Peace: a Washington "institution established and funded by Congress to increase the nation's ...