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.
The U.S. Institute of Peace has detailed Senior Vice President William Taylor to the Department of State to oversee the newly created Middle East Transitions Office. The transfer was effective September 6, 2011.
As we solemnly remember the tragedy of September 11th, 2001, and the lives lost, we must acknowledge the fragility of life and the continued dangers and challenges of a world in turmoil. Now, more than ever, we must find ways to manage conflict so that disputes do not escalate into violence, so that conflicts are prevented and contained, and so that societies can be stabilized.
Experts from the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) are available for comment and analysis of the rapidly changing conditions in Libya. Manal Omar, USIP’s director of Iraq, Iran, and North Africa programs, is traveling in Libya and is available for comment.
Experts from the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) are available for comment and analysis as President Barack Obama on August 18 calls on Syrian President Bashar Assad to step aside.
The U.S. Institute of Peace was deeply saddened to learn of the death of Jonathan Tucker on July 31, 2011. Tucker was one of the United States’ foremost experts on biological and chemical weapons as well as on the eradication of smallpox, and an influential nonproliferation advocate. USIP President Richard Solomon remembers Tucker as someone widely respected for his combination of scientific expertise in biology and proliferation challenges and familiarity with the world of international secu...
Ambassador Eric Edelman has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate as a member of the bipartisan board of directors for the United States Institute of Peace, USIP announced today.
August 8, 2011 The U.S. Institute of Peace mourns the death of former Oregon Senator Mark O. Hatfield, who served in the United States Senate from 1967-1997. Senator Hatfield, a U.S. Navy officer during World War II, played an integral role in the establishment and early development of the U.S. Institute of Peace. In 1975, Senator Hatfield introduced the George Washington Peace Academy Act with Senator Vance Hartke. The legislation proposed the establishment of an “institution in the United...
For Immediate Release, August 4, 2011 Contact: Allison Sturma, 202-429-4725 (Washington) – The United States Institute of Peace (USIP) welcomes the announcement by President Barack Obama on new initiatives to prevent mass atrocities and to impose consequences on serious human rights violators as a needed step forward. "Preventing and responding to mass atrocities and war crimes is a critical national security interest and the Institute is committed to supporting the administration’s effort...
In a new volume, “Customary Justice and the Rule of Law in War-Torn Societies” from the United States Institute of Peace, editor Deborah Isser argues that measuring customary justice systems against Western rule-of-law templates leads to strategies that fail to address the concerns of the population and impedes access to justice.
(Washington) – In a new study, “Negotiating Peace and Confronting Corruption” from the United States Institute of Peace, author Bertram I. Spector argues that peace and economic recovery in countries emerging from violent conflict are more likely and more durable when good governance reforms and corruption controls are included in negotiations ending the conflict.