For Immediate Release, October 19, 2010 Contact: Allison Sturma, 202/429-4725 (Washington) – USIP Senior Rule of Law Adviser Scott Worden is available to comment on Afghanistan governance and the recent parliamentary elections. Worden was in Afghanistan for the 2010 parliamentary elections as a member of the National Democratic Institute's Observer Mission. He was one of three U.N.-appointed international members of the 2009 Electoral Complaints Commission in Afghanistan. Looking at rece...

For Immediate Release, October 18, 2010 Contact: Allison Sturma, 202/429-4725    Meg Pierannunzi, 202/429-4736

For Immediate Release, October 8, 2010 Contact: Allison Sturma, 202/429-4725 or asturma@usip.org   (Washington) – The United States Institute of Peace (USIP) is pleased to welcome its 2010-2011 class of Jennings Randolph senior fellows to Washington. The 10 month-long fellowship provides scholars, practitioners and policymakers the opportunity to closely examine a wide variety of international peace and security issues. "Each year the senior fellows bring a diverse set of experience...

For Immediate Release, September 30, 2010 Contact: Lauren Sucher, 202/429-3822 or lsucher@usip.org Rob Baker, 781/218.9460 or robbaker@ushahidi.com (Washington) Today, at the opening of the International Conference of Crisis Mapping, the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) and Ushahidi announced the launch of Universities for Ushahidi (U4U). The program was inspired by the remarkable role that student volunteers played in the disaster response to Haiti and Chile, where they created a ...

For Immediate Release, September 27, 2010 Contact:  Lauren Sucher, 202/429-3822 or  lsucher@usip.org   (Washington) – Effective September 27, Allison Sturma will handle media relations full-time as press secretary for the United States Institute of Peace (USIP). Ms. Sturma has worked at USIP for two years in a variety of capacities. She holds a B.A. in Political Science from Union College and a M.S. in China in the International Arena from the University of Glasgow. Ms. Sturma will be p...

For Immediate Release, September 23, 2010 Contact: Allison Sturma, 202/429-4725 or asturma@usip.org               Lauren Sucher, 202/429-3822 or lsucher@usip.org  

For Immediate Release, September 22, 2010 Contact:  Lauren Sucher, USIP 202/429-3822 Brian Malina, Verizon 908/559-6434 (Washington) – The Verizon Foundation awarded a $500,000 grant to the Endowment of the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) for the purpose of creating an Educational Toolkit on peacebuilding, and for development of what will be the Web site of USIP’s Global Peacebuilding Center. The Global Peacebuilding Center is a part of the permanent headquarters facility of US...

For Immediate Release, September 21, 2010 Contact:  Lauren Sucher, Public Affairs, 202/429-3822 Meaghan Pierannunzi, Publications, 202/429-4736 (Washington) – As the world acknowledges International Day of Peace today, September 21,  the United States Institute of Peace Press (USIP) has published its first-ever day planner, on sale now for 2011. The day planner features quotes from world-renowned peacemakers and literary figures, facts about key moments in peace and conflict resolution, a...