Contact: Lauren Sucher +1-202-429-3822 lsucher@usip.org (Washington) -- Ambassador Jan Eliasson will be joining the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) as a Senior Visiting Scholar on March 18, 2009. He will participate in several Institute events, including a seminar on mediation and be a keynote speaker at a new U.S.-U.N. forum initiated by the Institute’s Center for Conflict Prevention. During his stay at USIP, Ambassador Eliasson will focus on how to strengthen transatlantic rela...

(Washington) — United States Institute of Peace (USIP) board of directors member Ron Silver passed away at his home in New York City on Sunday, March 15, 2009. USIP staff and board of directors will remember in Ron an accomplished, personable, dedicated colleague who served the Institute with distinction.

Contact: Lauren Sucher +1-202-429-3822 lsucher@usip.org   (Washington) – The United States Institute of Peace (USIP) is pleased to announce the arrival of a staff expert on Pakistan-- an American born in India with decades of South Asia expertise-- and a new Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow-- a Pakistani recently nominated as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. Dr. Rodney W. Jones is joining USIP's Center for Conflict Analysis and Prevention as a Program Officer. Over ...

Contact: Lauren Sucher +1-202-429-3822 lsucher@usip.org   (Washington) — The United States Institute of Peace (USIP) has named Lauren Sucher Acting Director of Public Affairs. Previously Assistant Director for Media Relations, Sucher will assume management responsibility for the Institute’s Web team, a writer and departmental assistant. Her goal is to increase the Institute’s visibility by integrating the organization’s online presence with its media outreach. Tara Sonenshine, USIP’...

Contact: Lauren Sucher +1 202 429 3822 lsucher@usip.org   A new report by Frederic C. Hof commissioned by the United States Institute of Peace's Center for Mediation and Conflict Resolution, provides groundbreaking ideas on facilitating a Syrian-Israel Peace. "Mapping Peace Between Syria and Israel" comes out at a critical time in the Arab-Israeli peace process as a new U.S. administration is looking for ways to move the process forward despite the recent violence in Gaza. The report al...

Contact: Ian Larsen +1 202 429 3870 (o) +1 703 929 2099 (m)   A lack of focus on long-term sustainability, an inability to map the entirety of donor nations' security assistance programs and the subsequent failure on the part of the international community to understand precisely what is needed in Afghanistan are among the leading reasons why international stabilization efforts in the country have not been more successful over the last seven years, says a new report from the United State...

Contact: Lauren Sucher                                        Dennis Palmieri United States Institute of Peace            ITVS 202-429-3822                                        415-356-8393 x256 (Washington, Feb. 4) Effectively communicating American values to the world is a crucial part of U.S. foreign policy, but doing so effectively will require adopting five essential but underutilized communication strategies, say the conveners of “Media as Global Diplomat”, a one-day conference he...

Contact: Lauren Sucher United States Institute of Peace 202-429-3822 Andrew Hollinger United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 202-488-6133           (Washington, DC) – As the nation approaches the swearing in of America’s 44th president, and as the 114th Congress gets underway, a group of bipartisan leaders joins the Genocide Prevention Task Force’s call for the new ...

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