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.
“It's been a big problem from the very beginning,” said Andrew Wilder, vice president of South and Central Asia programs at the United States Institute of Peace. It is unclear exactly how much money has been stolen. SIGAR is conducting an audit. The ...
On June 3, in a parody of democracy, Bashar al-Assad will be reelected as president of Syria for his third seven-year term. If he serves out this term, Assad will be eligible to run for a fourth term in 2021 that would extend his presidency to 28 years -- two years short of his father's tenure. Syrians may yet be spared almost six decades of direct Assad family rule, but the outcome of Tuesday's vote is a foregone conclusion.
Rising global violence threatens more than humanity's collective conscience. In 2014, America should seize two critical opportunities to address it.
But Moeed Yusuf, with Washington's U.S. Institute of Peace, says it will take a long time to fight this kind of insurgency. "What this is going to do is to strike the center of gravity of a number of groups. So, it is going to strike their physical ...
A small technology startup that aims big – aiding hundreds of millions of Africans who don’t have access to electricity -- won a USIP prize as a tool that also has the potential to build peace.
Daniel Brumberg, a democracy expert at Georgetown University and the United States Institute of Peace, points out that the most successful Square People in the Arab world, who forged a whole new constitution, are in Tunisia, which is the Arab country ...
(Washington) - Today the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) announced the state winners of the National Peace Essay Contest (NPEC) for high school students. Examining how security sector reform contributes to sustainable peace, this year's state level winners represent 46 states, the District of Columbia, and the categories for American territories and Americans living abroad. They each will receive a $1,000 academic scholarship.
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The rebels need more advanced weapons because “the balance of power must be changed on the ground in order to open the door” to a political resolution that removes Assad, he said in a speech May 7 at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington.
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 ...