Daniel Serwer Washington – USIP Vice President for Post-Conflict Peace and Stability Operations Daniel Serwer testified yesterday before the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe ("U.S. Helsinki Commission") about "Balkans Progress: Who Stands in the Way?" In his testimony, Serwer criticized current conditions in Bosnia, Serbia, and Kosovo and outlined concrete measures that the local political leadership and the international community should take. "While none of these plac...

  Washington - The United States Institute of Peace (USIP) has released a new report by Marvin G. Weinbaum on Afghanistan and Its Neighbors: An Ever Dangerous Neighborhood. Emphasizing that "Afghanistan’s future and that of the regional states are closely bound," the report examines the role neighboring countries in advancing stability, political consolidation, and reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan. The relationships with Pakistan and Iran are "the most imposing and critical," says We...

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  A multi-role simulation in progress. Conflict analysis and problem-solving frameworks were applied through working groups at the workshops. Washington - USIP Professional Training program officers Jonathan Morgenstein and Jacqueline Wilson have both just returned from Darfur, Sudan, where they conducted their second three-day training workshop on conflict resolution skills and customary law in two months. Workshop participants included the senior leaders of all major tribal groups ...

Washington – Forty-eight American high school students have been named winners of the 19th annual National Peace Essay Contest, sponsored by the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) in Washington, DC. Each student will receive a $1,000 college scholarship and compete for the 2006 national first prize, a $10,000 college scholarship. Approximately 4,000 students from across the United States, including U.S. territories and American high school students studying overseas, wrote essays for thi...

Washington - In light of the importance of Iraq to United States interests and the future of the region, there is urgent need for a bipartisan, forward-looking assessment of the situation in Iraq.

WASHINGTON, DC - A dramatic explosion in the number of Web sites operated by terrorist organizations—from just 12 in 1998 to more than 4,800 today—testifies to an alarming terrorist presence on the Internet. This according to a new book by international terrorism expert and noted scholar Gabriel Weimann. “There is a real war going on in cyberspace but it is invisible to most of us,” explains Weimann. The author describes this war in graphic detail in his new book, Terror on the Internet: The...

WASHINGTON - The United States Institute of Peace (USIP) has released a new report by author Joseph McMillan predicting another era of increased difficulties between Saudi Arabia and Iraq over oil policies, the effects of the democratization of Iraq on its neighbors, and potential cross-border religious influence. The report, entitled Saudi Arabia and Iraq: Oil, Religion and an Enduring Rivalry, is the third in a series of reports about Iraq and its neighbors. "Riyadh's policy toward Baghdad...