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.
At the same time, the United States Institute of Peace and international institutions have expressed concern about the situation of girls in Afghanistan and called for girls' rights to be honored in the country. Girls above sixth grade are not allowed to go to school and universities are also closed to them. Hadya, a sixteen-year-old 10th grader, said that...
The Chinese government has issued arrest warrants for a minister and a mayor in the Wa Self-Administered Zone (SAZ) for their alleged leading roles in telecom fraud gangs in the autonomous region of Myanmar’s northern Shan State near the Chinese border. The Hanzhou City Police Department in Jiejiang province and the Kunming City Police Department in Yunnan province issued warrants for the arrests of...
After being pressured by U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, Beijing has condemned the attacks launched by Hamas in Israel but did so without naming Hamas.In the latest statement from its Ministry of Foreign Affairs, China condemned "all violence and attacks on civilians" and said...
“The town belongs to them,” Lae said, referring to the Chinese investors running a special economic zone (SEZ) at the train’s final stop, where she was visiting a childhood friend for the day. “Boten is famous for child trafficking,” her daughter Ellie warned. “They take young Lao girls to China.” The Boten SEZ, nestled next to China’s Yunnan province, has cycled through...
The UN Security Council last week approved the Kenyan-led multinational security force for the country with Kenya promising 1,000 police officers. But a Nairobi court granted an interim injunction on Monday in a case brought by opposition politician and lawyer Ekuru Aukot, who argues the deployment is unconstitutional as is not backed by any law or treaty. Aukot helped draft Kenya's revised 2010 constitution and charged that Kenya would be deploying its police abroad while it failed to...
Head of the Ukrainian President’s Office Andriy Yermak met with William Taylor, vice president for Europe at the U.S. Institute of Peace and a former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine. Experts from the U.S. Institute of Peace also took part in the meeting, Ukrinform reports with reference to the President’s Office. Yermak noted the importance of the recent visit of the President of Ukraine to the United States, where many...
China-friendly Mohamed Muizzu’s victory in the Maldives’ recent presidential election has set alarm bells ringing in New Delhi, after he won a majority on the back of a concerted campaign to limit Indian influence in the island state. The Maldives, an archipelago of more than 1,000 islands less than 1,000km off the southwest coast of India, occupies a prime vantage point for surveillance and monitoring of...
After the 9/11 attacks, which weighed on America for a generation, the U.S.-led complete military victory over the Taliban in 2001 brought an unexpected opportunity to end decades of destructive violent conflict in Afghanistan. Afghans and many Americans and other foreigners who worked on the country were aware of...
The UN Security Council last week approved the Kenyan-led multinational security force for the country with Kenya promising 1,000 police officers. But a Nairobi court granted an interim injunction on Monday in a case brought by opposition politician and lawyer Ekuru Aukot, who argues the deployment is...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has adopted the rhetoric of multiculturalism to justify the war in Ukraine as part of an apparent initiative to offset the loss of political and economic ties in Europe. “First, there are many civilizations, and none is superior or inferior to another,” Putin said this week at the...