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.
The United Nations secretary general Ban Ki-moon has called for a 30 day cooling off period in the fighting in South Sudan. After five months of civil war, a ceasefire was declared last Friday between South Sudan's army and rebel troops, but fighting ...
Details on South Sudan's mineral potential are scarce, the U.S. Institute of Peace said in a report last year. The country's location, bordering mineral-rich parts of Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, suggests it may have similar resources ...
A more recent study by the Congressionally-funded US Institute for Peace confirmed a "basic causal mechanism" that "links climate change with violence in Nigeria." The report concludes: "...poor responses to climatic shifts create shortages of ... A ...
Jarba, in comments at the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) on Wednesday, said his group was trying to move an interim government it set up in Turkey into “liberated” Syrian territory. But without weapons to counter the barrel bombs and other airstrikes ...
... opportunity now. Shahmahmod Miakhel is the Country Director for Afghanistan with the United States Institute of Peace; Scott Smith is the Director for Afghanistan and Pakistan Programs for the United States Institute of Peace. SHEFAYEE/AFP/Getty ...
... Nigeria is usually reluctant to take American advice. "This is a proud country with a professional military and intelligence service and sometimes they accept things and sometimes they don't," says Carson, who is now with the U.S. Institute of ... US sends Nigeria help in search for missing girlsSacramento Bee
And sometimes they accept some things and sometimes they don't," said Carson, now at the United States Institute of Peace, established and funded by Congress. Asked to elaborate, Carson said in a conference call with reporters: "We made proposals and ...
Richard Downie, Center for Strategic and International Studies. "This is a proud country with a professional military and intelligence service and sometimes they accept things and sometimes they don't," says Carson, who is now with the U.S. Institute ...
Mr. Jarba used a speech on Wednesday at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington to reintroduce himself to the American public, portraying himself as a moderate who represented a viable alternative to Qaeda-linked militants and Mr. Assad.
"We want weapons," Syrian opposition leader Ahmad Jarba said during an appearance at the United States Institute of Peace Wednesday, his first public address in Washington, D.C.. "And we commit to keeping them in the right hands." Jarba, the head of ...