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.
Editor's note: Scott Smith is director of Afghanistan and Central Asia programs at the United States Institute of Peace. The views expressed are his own. This week's attack at an Afghan military academy, which claimed the life of a U.S. general and ...
... perhaps along with regional leaders who have an important role to play in ending the violence," said Jon Temin, director of the U.S. Institute of Peace's Africa programs. He noted that Kiir's attendance, along with leaders from Kenya and Ethiopia ...
A new paper from the U.S. Institute of Peace, which builds upon fieldwork from the past three years, argues that 2014 marks an important opportunity for donors to recalibrate three central tenets of their subnational governance and development strategy.
... their own narrow calculations -- should be paramount in deciding what combination of justice strategies to employ. If the people are yearning for accountability, the world needs to listen. Jon Temin is director of Africa programs at the U.S ...
“Today's Africa is not at all the same place it was” just a couple of decades ago, Susan Rice, Obama's national security adviser, said in a recent speech previewing the summit at the US Institute of Peace in Washington. “In the space of one generation ...
... extremist organizations, some of which have a religious or fundamentalist base, has brought into stark relief the need for greater training and assistance” by the international community, said Carson, who's now a senior adviser to the U.S ...
“Africa also has strong ties with other regions and nations, but America's engagement with Africa is fundamentally different,” said national security adviser Susan E. Rice in remarks at the U.S. Institute for Peace on Wednesday. “We don't see Africa as ...
(Washington) – The National Defense Panel delivered its review of the Department of Defense 2014 Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) to Congress today. The Congressionally mandated report, “Ensuring a Strong Defense for the Future,” was written at the request of the Department of Defense. The executive director of the project was Colonel (Ret.). Paul Hughes, a senior advisor at the United States Institute of Peace and was written in partnership with LMI, a non-profit government consulting firm. ...
Speaking at the U.S. Institute of Peace Wednesday, national security adviser Susan Rice highlighted security progress in places like Angola and Liberia, but increased conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Sudan and Sudan, with ...
"I don't think social media users are making any great difference on the discourse on the Israel-Palestinian conflict," said Anand Varghese, who specializes in technology and peacebuilding at the United States Institute of Peace, a nonpartisan federal ...