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.
When Kira learned that her partner Elvira Shchemur had died in a missile strike on Ukraine, the loss hit her doubly hard. Even as she mourned, Kira knew that as a same-sex partner she had no rights to collect Shchemur's body. "Officially, I am no one to her," said Kira, who asked to be identified by a pseudonym due to fears of her employment being affected...
(Washington, D.C.) – The U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) is honored to announce María Eugenia Mosquera Riascos of Colombia as the recipient of the Institute’s 2022 Women Building Peace Award.
The Biden administration is treading lightly in response to demonstrations in China by citizens angry over the country’s harsh COVID-19 restrictions, drawing criticism from Republicans and democracy advocates who say the White House should act more forcefully. The protests, which broke out...
NATO leaders meeting in Romania say they will stand by Ukraine as long as it takes. CBS News' John Dickerson speaks with Ambassador William Taylor about how Ukraine is faring in its ongoing effort to fight off the Russian invasion as winter sets in...
In Pakistan’s mountainous tribal regions, tens of thousands of people are protesting against the government’s failure to keep them safe from attacks by resurgent terrorists. Ten years after gunmen boarded a school bus and shot a teenager in the face to silence her campaign for girls’ education, people fear Taliban extremists are bringing death and misery back to their valleys...
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is vowing to build "the world's most powerful" nuclear arsenal mere weeks after conducting tests of multiple short-range ballistic missiles and an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). North Korean state media outlet KCNA reported the leader's...
he armed group Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), also known as the Pakistani Taliban, has announced the end of an indefinite ceasefire agreed with the government in June and issued orders to its fighters to carry out attacks across the country. “As military operations are...
Just five weeks after securing a precedent-breaking third term as China’s leader, Xi Jinping is facing the biggest wave of civil disobedience since he took power a decade ago, as thousands take to the streets in cities across China in protest of his stringent “COVID zero” restrictions. From Guangzhou...
'All Ukrainian territory should be free of Russians. All Ukrainian territory. Donbas and Crimea should all be free of Russian forces. It doesn't have to all happen exactly at the same time. Right now, forces are being pushed out of Donetsk and Luhansk. There are attacks into Crimea. The military dynamic will determine how fast and in what order the Russians are pushed out of all of Ukraine. Sooner or later I think the Russians will all be out of...
Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor joins Chris Jansing to discuss the growing number of war crimes inflicted by Russia in Ukraine. “There are war crimes taking place every day,” says Taylor. “This is terrorist activity. This is actually an attempt by the Russians to wipe out the Ukrainians, to...