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.
Susan Hayward, director of religion and peace building at the Center for Governance, Law and Society at the U.S. Institute of Peace, said “the work of religious engagement and peace and development has tended to further the marginalization of women ...
From diplomats and contract workers to citizens on the ground, minds must be changed at every level, said Kathleen Kuehnast, senior adviser for gender and peacebuilding at the United States Institute for Peace. “That kind of change really happens in ...
By Elie AbouaounDr. Elie Abouaoun is the director of Middle East Programs with the Center for Middle East and Africa at the U.S. Institute of Peace. The views expressed here are his own. July 8, 2015; facebook twitter google-plus reddit email. Beating ...
Shahmahmood Miakhel, the Kabul based country head of the United States Institute for Peace, thought Stanekzai was the “right fit for the job.” He knew the military structure and the insurgent groups, Miakhel said. He had also served as the deputy head ...
(Generation Change now resides outside of the formal State Department apparatus at the United States Institute of Peace, an independent, nonpartisan, national institution established and funded by Congress to prevent and resolve violent international ...
A May report from the U.S. Institute of Peace (where we work) found that less than 20 percent of land was properly titled, and displacement, resettlement, and rising property prices have only made the situation more confused. Because both formal ...
He will be building upon the relationships and commitments of last summer's U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit, when 50 heads of African states traveled to Washington, D.C., said Susan Stigant, director of Africa programs at the U.S. Institute of Peace. During ...
A May report from the U.S. Institute of Peace (where we work) found that less than 20 percent of land was properly titled, and displacement, resettlement, and rising property prices have only made the situation more confused. Because both formal ...
Joyce A. Kasee is a program officer for the Middle East and Africa team at the U.S. Institute for Peace, a nonpartisan institution established and funded by Congress to increase U.S. capacity to manage international conflict without violence. The views ... and more »
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- As conflicts worldwide increasingly include sophisticated information warfare, the United Nations needs to build smart public communications strategies into every peacekeeping mission it deploys. This problem and concrete steps to solve it are the focus of a conference on June 23, 2015 from 9:30am-3:00pm. The event is one of a global series of conferences, called the Challenges Forum, that are shaping broad recommendations for improving U.N. peace operations. The discussio...