For Immediate Release, July 2, 2010 Contact:  Lauren Sucher, 202/429-3822                 lsucher@usip.org (Washington) – On Independence Day, United States Institute of Peace (USIP) president Richard H. Solomon will participate in a panel discussion at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival on the National Mall. Ambassador Solomon and a former staffer of Sen. Matsunaga’s, Suzanne Day, will discuss how World War II veteran, Congressman and then Senator Spark Matsunaga of Hawaii ran a commission...

(Washington) – Last Thursday night, during the culminating event of a week in Washington for 49 high school students from around the country, three students were announced as the national, first and second prize winners of the National Peace Essay Contest run by the United States Institute of Peace (USIP). The top three winners, whose essays were the best of all of the state winners, are Margaret Hardy of California,  who won the top national prize of $10,000; Sara Luecke of Pennsylvania whos...

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For Immediate Release, Contact: Lauren Sucher, 202/429-3822 or lsucher@usip.org (Washington) - In a new book from the United States Institute of Peace, “Youth and Post-Conflict Reconstruction: Agents of Change”, author Stephanie Schwartz contends that youth can and do play a dynamic and positive role in post-conflict reconstruction processes, countering popular belief and common depictions of youth as teenage terrorists, gang members and child soldiers. Using three case studies—Mozambique, ...

For Immediate Release, June 9, 2010 Contact: Allison Sturma, 202/429-4725 or asturma@usip.org (Washington) -  George Lopez, Jennings Randolph senior fellow at the United States of Peace, reacted to the United Nations passage of new sanctions against Iran: The new U.N. resolution captures the important policy subtlety that sanctions must pressure for compliance, not punish for capitulation.  It provides an effective balance between a sanctions bite that hurts and a style of imposition that ...

For Immediate Release, May 26, 2010 Contact:  Allison Sturma, 202/429-4725 or asturma@usip.org                 Lauren Sucher, 202/429-3822 or lsucher@usip.org (Washington) -- The United States Institute of Peace (USIP) announces two changes to its Iraq team, affecting operations in its Washington, D.C. and Baghdad offices. Effective immediately, Manal Omar has been named director of USIP's Iraq program, and Sean Kane has joined the team as program officer. Both will be based in the Institu...

For Immediate Release, June 1, 2010 Contact:  Lauren Sucher, 202/429-3822 or lsucher@usip.org                 Allison Sturma, 202/429-4725 or asturma@usip.org (Washington) – For the first time, the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) is participating in the AFI-Discovery Channel Silverdocs Documentary Festival. The two organizations have teamed up to present a thematic strand of six films that explore the human side of conflict. The strand is called "Peacebuilding on Screen."

For Immediate Release, June 1, 2010 Contact:  Allison Sturma, 202/429-4725 or asturma@usip.org (Washington) -- Senator George J. Mitchell, special envoy for the Middle East, delivered the 2010 United States Institute of Peace (USIP) Dean Acheson Lecture, on Monday, May 24 in front of a packed audience. Senator Mitchell was introduced by Richard H. Solomon, president of USIP and by Michael A. Dignam, president for Readiness & Stability Operations at Lockheed Martin Corporation, which sponsor...

For Immediate Release, May 13, 2010 (Washington) -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Afghan President Hamid Karzai provided more details on the road ahead in Afghanistan and the future of U.S.-Afghan relations during a May 13 public event at the U.S. Institute of Peace. Clinton and Karzai sat down for a conversation with USIP’s William Taylor about the current effort in Afghanistan, and concerns about the strength of the U.S.-Afghan relationship. After welcoming the two disting...

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