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.
... retaining legitimacy—and, ultimately, power—if they can't take a joke. Wright, a fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, is the author of Rock the Casbah: Rage and Rebellion Across the ...
The U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP), in partnership with the U.S. State Department and the Department of Homeland Security, hosted two international workshops on March 19-22, 2013, to identify priorities, strategies, and good practices for community engagement and community policing as tools to counter violent extremism.
Sierra Leone, Senegal, Malawi and Cape Verde all have made significant progress toward promoting democratic reform. These four countries’ heads of state will share the stage at the United States Institute of Peace for an important conversation on the link between good governance and increasing prosperity in their countries and across Africa.
“The secrecy surrounding its activities evokes the traits of a closed military establishment that is removed from society and governed with little transparency and accountability,” they wrote in a United States Institute of Peace report last year. As ...
“The Iraq experience has taught the United States to watch out for the slightest misstep,” said Steven Heydemann, senior adviser for Middle East initiatives at the United States Institute of Peace, a think tank. “Without even questioning whether a ...
For instance, from the United States alone, the State Department's Conflict and Stabilization Operations bureau and the U.S. Institute of Peace deployed teams to high-risk areas to assess conflict mitigation efforts. The U. S. Agency for International ...
“Democracy Studies in the New Tunisia,” which takes place March 17-23, is a joint effort of Georgetown's Democracy and Governance Studies program; the United States Institute of Peace (USIP); and the Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED).
“It is quite precarious,” said Moeed Yusuf, a Pakistan expert at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington. “The state writ has unraveled, and the military doesn't seem able to put the lid on things as they could in the past.” The Pakistani army says ...
... and until it can be persuaded that it faces the possibility of defeat, I'm not sure that we are going to find it willing to enter any kind of serious negotiating process,” said Middle East analyst Steven Heydemann, who works at the United States ...
asked Andrew Wilder, an Afghan expert at the U.S. Institute for Peace. “This is the key question. How do we pay for these police and infrastructure programmes when the fiscal resources are going to shrink next year?” According to Vanda Felbab-Brown, ..