For Immediate Release, January 18, 2011 Contact: Allison Sturma                202-429-4725                asturma@usip.org   (Washington) - The United States Institute of Peace (USIP) announced today that its initiative on gender and peacebuilding is now become a full programmatic center, naming Kathleen Kuehnast as director. Kuehnast, a socio-cultural anthropologist, joined USIP in 2008 following a 15-year career in international development and post-conflict. Her newest book, a co-edi...

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For Immediate Release, January 11, 2011 Contact: Allison Sturma                202-429-4725                asturma@usip.org The United States Institute of Peace announced today that Gordon Lubold, a journalist with more than a decade covering national security and foreign policy, will be joining the Institute as a senior advisor to write and cover events and help bring USIP’s work to a broader audience.  "We need strong writers and thinkers to advance our mission of international conf...

For Immediate Release, January 4, 2011 Contact: Allison Sturma                202-429-4725                asturma@usip.org

Contact: Allison Sturma, 202/429-4725 (Washington) – On Thursday, December 16, the morning after the State Department will release its Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review (QDDR), Director of Policy Planning for the Department of State Anne-Marie Slaughter and USAID Deputy Administrator Donald Steinberg will speak about the report in a public forum at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP). According to a State Department fact sheet, the QDDR “will provide the short-, medium-, ...

For Immediate Release, November 30, 2010 Contact:  Allison Sturma, 202/429-4725 (Washington) - The United States Institute of Peace (USIP) joins the nation in mourning the passing of Congressman Stephen J. Solarz who served on USIP’s Senior Working Group on Middle East Peace. "Stephen was a man of enormous energy and the Institute was fortunate that he shared that intellectual energy with us," said USIP President Richard H. Solomon. The Institute extends its condolences to the Solarz fam...

For Immediate Release, November 29, 2010 Contact: Allison Sturma, 202/429-4725   (Washington) - Experts from the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) have been closely following the Haitian presidential and legislative elections that took place yesterday in Haiti - the first time since the January earthquake that Haitians have gone to the polls. Robert Maguire, chairman of USIP's Haiti Working Group, reflected that there was much at stake in these elections: "This presidential election was u...

Contact: Allison Sturma, 202/429-4725 (Washington)– The U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) and the Stimson Center announce the publication of "Engagement, Coercion, and Iran’s Nuclear Challenge." This report is the culmination of recommendations from a distinguished group of more than 40 scholars and policy analysts, who met regularly during the past year to evaluate how the US should proceed in its strategy with the Islamic Republic of Iran. This report comes at a crucial time, as the U.S. fac...

Gilpin was interviewed on Al Jazeera news on November 17, 2010 presenting expert opinion on the state of the emergency declared in Guinea, in response to post election violence.