USIP mourns the passing of George Kennan, the architect of the policy of “containment,” which guided U.S. relations with the Soviet Union throughout the Cold War. The Institute's best selling book Origins of the Cold War: The Novikov, Kennan, and Roberts 'Long Telegrams' of 1946 features Kennan's famous "Long Telegram."

WASHINGTON – Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell criticized the government of the Republic of Sudan today for failing to issue visas to a member and staff of the Task Force on the United Nations. In a statement issued today, the co-chairs of the task force said they were “deeply distressed over the failure of the government of the Republic of Sudan to permit the travel.” The two noted that “despite having had more than ample time,” the Sudanese...

WASHINGTON—Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell will lead a new task force that will assess UN effectiveness and recommend actions for the United States to take to strengthen the world body. Mandated by Congress in the FY2005 omnibus appropriations bill at the behest of Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA), the task force will examine the extent to which the United Nations is fulfilling the goals of its Charter and offer recommendations for U.S. action in a r...

WASHINGTON—For the first time since the outbreak of the second Intifada, there is majority public support among Israelis and Palestinians for a permanent, two-state peace settlement, according to recently released joint survey data from the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (PSR) in Ramallah and the Harry S. Truman Institute at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. The Israeli survey work was directed by Jacob Shamir, a senior fellow at the United States Institute of Peace and ...

WASHINGTON, DC – The United States Institute of Peace invites U.S. high school students to compete in the 2005 National Peace Essay Contest on the topic of “Transitions to Democracy.” The deadline for submitting essays is February 2, 2005. The contest, which is open to students in all American high schools, is designed to encourage serious and realistic thinking about issues of conflict management and peacebuilding. This year students are being asked to select two countries outside the Unite...

December 8, 2004 WASHINGTON—Congress has provided $100 million to the U.S. Institute of Peace for construction of a permanent headquarters facility in the FY 2005 omnibus spending bill signed today by President Bush. The Institute's new home is envisioned as a national center for research, education, training, and policy and program development on international conflict prevention, management, and resolution. "We are gratified by Congress' validation of the Institute's work over the last 20...

WASHINGTON—The U.S. Institute of Peace is pleased to announce that four leading specialists have joined its Muslim World Initiative. They will examine the opportunities and challenges facing the United States in its relations with the area of the world stretching from Morocco to Mindanao. Abdeslam Maghraoui, formerly a lecturer and resident scholar at Princeton University, is the new associate director of research and studies for the Muslim World. He is joined by Christine Fair, who served a...

WASHINGTON—The war on terror is "as much a conflict of visions as a conflict of arms," said National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice during a speech at the U.S. Institute of Peace on August 19. "True victory will come not merely when the terrorists are defeated by force, but when the ideology of death and hatred is overcome by the appeal of life and when the lies are replaced by truth," said Rice. Emphasizing the importance of distinguishing between a minority of extremists and the one bil...