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Zach Vertin, a senior advisor to the U.S. Special Envoy to South Sudan and Sudan, and John Temin of the U.S. Institute of Peace jointly stressed the urgency of finding a solution to the crisis in South Sudan. "We have heard in these past few days ...
The Chinese ambassador stressed the importance of military-to-military contacts. "There will be more exchanges," he said in remarks at the nonprofit U.S. Institute of Peace. Hagel's trip to China exposed tensions over its territorial disputes with ...
"Relative to what we were expecting, it's very hard to not conclude that this was a real defeat for the Taliban," Andrew Wilder, an American expert on Afghanistan, said in a telephone interview from Kabul on Monday "And a very good day for the Afghan people."
(Washington) – The United States Institute of Peace (USIP) and Georgetown University Press (GU Press) are pleased to announce the publication of two seminal and timely volumes on insurgency and counterinsurgency in South Asia. Edited by Moeed Yusuf, the director of South Asia programs at USIP, Pakistan's Counterterrorism Challenge (GU Press/USIP Press) and Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in South Asia: Through a Peacebuilding Lens (USIP Press) challenge conventional wisdom on counterterroris...
The vote, says Andrew Wilder of the United States Institute of Peace, was a decisive message to the militants. "If seven million Afghans turned out to vote, despite all these threats, I think there is only to interpret that as a real significant defeat ...
A report just published by United States Institute of Peace (USIP) describes in detail the intra-Taliban debate about this year's elections. During 2013, the Taliban debated how they should approach the elections and clear divisions emerged. There were ...
The next Afghan government will want a stable relationship with the West, especially the U.S., said Shahmahmood Miakhel, the Kabul-based country director for the U.S. Institute of Peace. “But the future relationship will depend on credibility of the ...
Veteran U.S. diplomat Johnnie Carson, now a senior adviser at the U.S. Institute for Peace, said the Rwanda genocide taught the world it has to move quickly. "Act swiftly, and to muster the resources of the international community to condemn and engage ...
Andrew Wilder of the United States Institute for Peace who has seen all the recent elections. "With some 6,500 polling stations across the country, it will be hard to stop the vote." Speculation also continued, right down to the wire, that palace ...
Veteran U.S. diplomat Johnnie Carson, now a senior adviser at the U.S. Institute for Peace, said the Rwanda genocide taught the world it has to move quickly. "Act swiftly, and to muster the resources of the international community to condemn and engage ...