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The barrel bombs, a type of improvised explosive device dropped from Syrian helicopters and aircraft, are “making our life a nightmare,” Jarba said in an address at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington. “So we want weapons that would be able to ...
Speaking at the US Institute of Peace (USIP) without notes, Jarba, a slight, unprepossessing figure who comes from the northern Syrian city of Qamishli and is a member of the Shammar tribe with branches in Iraq and Saudi Arabia, sought to counter the ...
Speaking at the US Institute of Peace in Washington, Jarba claimed that such a move would help open the door for a political solution in Syria. He made the remarks ahead of talks with US Secretary of State John Kerry and other top US officials. Jarba ...
May 1, 2014 (JUBA) - A peace-building radio drama series, focusing on youth in South Sudan, launches countrywide next week. Sawa Shabab, a program locally Free Voice South Sudan in collaboration with the U.S. Institute of Peace, will air on Radio ...
(Washington, D.C., and Juba, South Sudan) - Sawa (Washington, D.C., and Juba, South Sudan) - Sawa Shabab, a peacebuilding radio drama series for youth in South Sudan, will begin broadcasting across South Sudan the week of May 4. The drama series follows the daily lives of different young South Sudanese as they face unique challenges while learning how to become peacebuilders in their communities.
Research by Wood and other academics in a 2013 United States Institute of Peace (USIP) report notes that armed groups even within the same war do not perpetrate sexual violence to the same extent or in the same forms. During the 1980-1992 civil war in ...
Sarhang Hamasaeed is a senior program officer for the Middle East with the U.S. Institute of Peace. SARHANG HAMASAEED, United States Institute of Peace: The issue is entangled, the sectarianism and the divide of the Sunni and the Shia is entangled with ...
But some monks have emerged to play a role in challenging anti-Islamic messages, and they will be key to efforts to halt future violence, said Susan Hayward, a program officer at the U.S. Institute of Peace who has been working with interfaith groups ...
Number crunching and pattern recognition may hold the key to predicting and preventing conflicts. But first, peace-builders need to change the way they do business.
Ambassador Kay commented on Tuesday at the Washington-based U.S. Institute of Peace. African Union and Somali troops have driven al-Shabab out of most major Somali cities and towns, but the militants continue to carry out attacks. Somali Prime Minister ...