FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - June 4, 2009   Contact: Lauren Sucher +1-202-429-3822 lsucher@usip.org (Washington) -- The United States Institute of Peace (USIP) is pleased to announce its 2009–2010 class of Jennings Randolph Senior Fellows, who will spend ten months in residence at the Institute working on projects related to peacebuilding and conflict resolution. Fellows are chosen through a rigorous multi-stage review that includes consideration by USIP staff and outside experts. The fin...

Neil Kritz has been appointed as United States Institute of Peace (USIP) Senior Scholar in Residence. Kritz has spent the past eighteen years creating and building the Institute's Rule of Law Program, a vital resource for policymakers and practitioners around the world in understanding the nexus between conflict resolution and the rule of law, working on such topics as war crimes and transitional justice, constitution-making, model codes and law reform, customary systems of justice, strategie...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - May 8, 2009 Contact: Lauren Sucher +1-202-429-3822 lsucher@usip.org   (Washington, D.C.) - The United States Institute of Peace (USIP) today celebrates a milestone in the construction of its permanent headquarters facility on the northwest corner of the National Mall, known as a "topping out" ceremony. "Topping out" refers to the day when a construction team pours the last bit of concrete for the base structure of the building. Traditionally, workers sign their ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - May 6, 2009 Contact: Lauren Sucher +1-202-429-3822 (Washington, D.C.) - The Congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture of The United States, facilitated by the United States Institute of Peace (USIP), today issued its final report to the administration, to the Congress, and to the American people. The report includes a total of nearly 100 findings and recommendations to strengthen America's strategic security. The Chairman of the Commission was former Secr...

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U.S. Institute of Peace, Which Facilitated the Commission, Will Hold Press Conference on May 6 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - April 30, 2009 Contact: Lauren Sucher +1-202-429-3822 (Washington) – Next Wednesday, May 6, a group of senior experts with decades of public service will present its final report on our nation’s strategic posture, to include its nuclear weapons strategy, to the President and Congress. They will detail their findings and respond to media questions in a press conference. ...

Contact: Lauren Sucher +1-202-429-3822 lsucher@usip.org   (Washington) – The United States Institute of Peace (USIP) has named Tara Sonenshine as the Executive Vice President of the Institute. Image on right: Tara Sonenshine Sonenshine joined the USIP leadership team in January 2009 as Vice President for Planning and Outreach. In that capacity, Sonenshine has overseen strategic planning, public outreach and publications. She also manages the planning of the Public Education Center th...

As part of Holocaust Remembrance week, former Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright and former Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen were honored at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on April 22 for their work on genocide prevention. Secretaries Albright and Cohen co-chaired the Genocide Prevention Task Force, jointly convened by USIP, the Holocaust Museum and the American Academy of Diplomacy, which released its report in December 2008. Earlier in the week, former President Bi...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - April 22, 2009 Contact: Lauren Sucher              Tom Casey                                Tom Callahan +1-202-429-3822        +1-301-543-5536                        +1-301-543-5536 lsucher@usip.org          thomas.h.casey@lmco.com        thomas.j.callahan@lmco.com (Washington) -- Lockheed Martin Corporation has become the premier sponsor of the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) annual Dean Acheson Lecture for five years beginning in 2009. In addition to pr...