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.
CNN’s Fred Pleitgen takes viewers to Ukraine as the city of Dnipro is reeling from a deadly airstrike that killed two and injured dozens. Retired Air Force Colonel Cedric Leighton and Former US Ambassador of Ukraine William Taylor discuss the developments...
Bill Robinson of Lenoir City, Tennessee, remembers being put in a hole filled with water at the bottom. It was small enough in height to prevent sitting and standing up straight. Robinson once endured this for four days. With mosquitoes breeding around him. His experience marked one of the torturous...
Competing claims have left uncertainty over who was behind a cross-border attack in the Belgorod region of Russia this week, a situation one former Marine colonel says Ukraine stands to benefit from in the war. Moscow blamed the raid that began Monday and ended Tuesday on Ukrainian...
Haiti has actively participated in international organizations by being a founding member of the Editorial Board of the Declaration of Human Rights and also of the United Nations. Inspired by the liberal values of the French Revolution (1789), it was the first country to abolish slavery in the...
Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor responds to recent cross-border fighting between Russia and Ukraine as Kyiv prepares for a counteroffensive. Taylor says Ukrainian troops have “the morale” to counter Russia in its coming offensive...
Three years after a deadly brawl between Indian and Chinese forces along the Line of Actual Control (LAC), relations between Beijing and New Delhi remain in what Indian External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar has repeatedly described as an “abnormal” condition. Strangely, at the heart of a dispute that...
Ahead of the Buddhist new year in Myanmar last month, a few hundred locals congregated one morning in Pa Zi Gyi village in Sagaing region, in the country’s Buddhist heartland. It was supposed to be a happy event to mark the opening of a new office of the dissident national unity government, which opposes the...
Papua New Guinea signed a defence pact with the United States on Monday, giving US forces access to its airfields and ports as Washington vies with China's expanding footprint in the Pacific region. Washington has growing concerns about China's rise in the...
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is officially back in the Arab fold. After more than a dozen years of ostracism, he was warmly embraced by regional leaders at the Arab League summit in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, this week. This once-unthinkable comeback creates a “conundrum” for the United States, which continues to...
Indonesian police arrested a man and a woman this month who are suspected to be behind the trafficking in persons from Indonesia to Myanmar. Police collected information from the 20 victims who were enticed with false promises of employment in Myanmar. But they were forced to...