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.
... at the White House where talk centered on Syria. Margaret Warner talks with Henri Barkey of Lehigh University and Steve Heydemann of the U.S. Institute for Peace about how the international community could collaborate on ending the Syrian civil war ...
... told voters not to vote, and offered dire threats if they did, we have the highest turnout in a Pakistani election since 1970,” Andrew Wilder, head of the Pakistan programme at the United States Institute of Peace, a quasi-government think tank ...
William Byrd, an Afghanistan Senior Expert at the US Institute of Peace, explained to The International that “high addiction rates in Afghanistan for opiates are a relatively recent phenomenon,” and that this widespread addiction is “a product of the ...
It's all part of the dialogue — why it is really hard and why it has to succeed, otherwise, as a recent United States Institute of Peace report warned: “Yemen risks falling backward into open conflict.” The good news is that — for now — a lot of ...
The U.S. Institute of Peace announced today the state-level winners of the 2012-2013 National Peace Essay Contest (NPEC). Each of the 50 high school students received an academic scholarship for their essays on “Gender, War, and Peacebuilding.”
Director of Afghan and Pakistani programs at the U.S. Institute of Peace Andrew Wilder said the elections are a milestone for a country with a long record of political violence. "Unfortunately, the dramatic increase this past month in electoral ...
Jim Marshall, president of the United States Institute of Peace, has been appointed to the congressionally-mandated National Defense Panel, which assesses the Department of Defense’s Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR). Marshall was named to the panel by U.S. Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA), ranking member on the House Armed Services Committee.
The China-India border dispute has cast a shadow on bilateral relations for decades. Memories of the war it provoked in 1962 continue to influence Indian strategic thinking vis-a-vis China.
Two months after stepping down as President Barack Obama's special envoy for Sudan and South Sudan, veteran U.S. diplomat Princeton Lyman has joined the U.S. Institute of Peace as a senior advisor. According to a USIP memo, Lyman, 77, will focus on ...
Ambassador Princeton N. Lyman joined the U.S. Institute of Peace as a senior advisor, USIP announced today. He stepped down in March as President Barack Obama’s special envoy for Sudan and South Sudan, a position he had held since March 10, 2011. His work at USIP will focus on the roles of special envoys, such as when and under what conditions they are most effective, as well as how the U.S. government can most effectively interact with rogue states with which the U.S. nevertheless has import...