For Immediate Release - July 10, 2009 Contact: Lauren Sucher, 202/429-3822  

For Immediate Release: June 26, 2009 Contact: Lauren Sucher, 202/429-3822 (Washington) – Three high school students—one each from Missouri, Arkansas and Mississippi—have won scholarships of $10,000, $5,000 and $2,500 respectively as national, first and second place prizes in the National Peace Essay Contest (NPEC) conducted each year by the United States Institute of Peace (USIP). Sophia Sanchez from Missouri, Erin Morbek from Arkansas and Sean Ray from Mississippi, the three national winne...

Education & Training

(Washington) – Eighteen community college faculty members from around the U.S. have just returned from a five-day seminar in Washington, D.C. at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) called, "Global Peace and Security in Community Colleges and the Communities They Serve." During the workshop, they collaborated on ways to integrate teaching about conflict resolution into their already-existing curricula. The participants are chosen from a pool of applicants for this all-expense paid trai...

Education & Training

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - June 8, 2009 Contact: Lauren Sucher   +1-202-429-3822 lsucher@usip.org (Washington) -- Veteran American journalist Marvin Kalb is joining the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) beginning June 1, 2009, as its first "Writer in Residence." Kalb is working on a book, tentatively titled The Presidents and the War: From Truman to Obama, which focuses on the effect of the Vietnam War on American policy and politics. He will also moderate programs for USIP a...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - June 8, 2009   Contact: Liz Harper +1-202-429-3873 eharper@usip.org   (Washington) — The United States Institute of Peace (USIP) has named Lauren Sucher as the Director of Public Affairs and Communications. Sucher joined USIP as Associate Director of Media Relations in November 2006, and has been Acting Director of Public affairs since March 2009. In announcing her new position, USIP Executive Vice President Tara Sonenshine said, "I am delighted that Lauren ...

  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - June 4, 2009   Contact: Lauren Sucher +1-202-429-3822 lsucher@usip.org (Washington) -- The United States Institute of Peace (USIP) is pleased to announce its 2009–2010 class of Jennings Randolph Senior Fellows, who will spend ten months in residence at the Institute working on projects related to peacebuilding and conflict resolution. Fellows are chosen through a rigorous multi-stage review that includes consideration by USIP staff and outside experts. The fin...

Neil Kritz has been appointed as United States Institute of Peace (USIP) Senior Scholar in Residence. Kritz has spent the past eighteen years creating and building the Institute's Rule of Law Program, a vital resource for policymakers and practitioners around the world in understanding the nexus between conflict resolution and the rule of law, working on such topics as war crimes and transitional justice, constitution-making, model codes and law reform, customary systems of justice, strategie...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - May 8, 2009 Contact: Lauren Sucher +1-202-429-3822 lsucher@usip.org   (Washington, D.C.) - The United States Institute of Peace (USIP) today celebrates a milestone in the construction of its permanent headquarters facility on the northwest corner of the National Mall, known as a "topping out" ceremony. "Topping out" refers to the day when a construction team pours the last bit of concrete for the base structure of the building. Traditionally, workers sign their ...