WASHINGTON - The U.S. Institute of Peace is pleased to announce the selection of its 2005-2006 Peace Scholar dissertation fellows, each of whom will receive a $20,000 stipend. The funding will support research addressing conflict in the Congo, Iraq, Palestine, Peru, Sierra Leone, East Asian countries and elsewhere. The Peace Scholar fellowship recipients represent a diverse array of academic disciplines including political science, psychology, anthropology and others ? and a cross-section of...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Institute of Peace is pleased to announce that General Shlomo Brom, former Israeli Deputy National Security Advisor, will serve as a guest scholar in residence starting in September 2005. As Israel now completes its disengagement from the Gaza Strip and the Northern West Bank, General Brom will look ahead toward the next phase of the peace process. His research will focus on Israeli national security thinking about Palestinian statehood and the future of Israel's relatio...

WASHINGTON—On July 22, the Senate approved S. Con Res. 109, which honors the United States Institute of Peace on the 20th anniversary of its establishment. Sponsored by Senators Daniel Inouye (D-HI), John Warner (R-VA), and Tom Harkin (D-IA), the resolution underscores the role of the Institute as a "source of innovative ideas and practical policy analysis on peacemaking in zones of conflict around the world." In introducing the resolution, Senator Inouye called the Institute "a unique natio...

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Institute of Peace released a major report today on "Turkey and Iraq" which underscores Turkey's critical role in the stabilization and reconstruction of Iraq. "Turkey, not unlike Iran, has the capacity to both impede and facilitate progress for the U.S. and its allies in Iraq," writes Henri J. Barkey, the report's author.  The report is part of the Institute's "Iraq and its Neighbors" research project which brings together leading specialists on the geopolitics of the ...

WASHINGTON, DC – Jessica Perrigan of Omaha, N.E. was awarded first prize in this year’s National Peace Essay Contest, sponsored by the U.S. Institute of Peace.  A student at Duchesne Academy, Perrigan received a $10,000 college scholarship for her essay titled “Finding Peace: Japan and Cambodia.”  In announcing the winner at the Institute’s annual NPEC awards banquet on June 22, Institute President Richard H. Solomon commented on the high quality of the essays and the difficulty of the subjec...

WASHINGTON – Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, co-chairs of the Task Force on the United Nations, are scheduled to testify before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Science, State, Justice and Commerce (SSJC) on Wednesday, June 22 at 10 a.m. in Room 2359 Rayburn House Office Building. SSJC Chairman Frank R. Wolf (R-VA), who authored the legislation mandating the report, will preside. Gingrich and Mitchell will discuss the findings and...

WASHINGTON – In a report released today, the Task Force on the United Nations recommends that the U.S. government endorse and call upon the UN and its members to “affirm a responsibility of every sovereign government to protect its own citizenry and those within its borders from genocide, mass killing, and massive and sustained human rights violations.” The report adds that the “United States should insist that states asserting an absolutist doctrine of non-intervention explain why they are p...

WASHINGTON - Richard H. Solomon, President of the U.S. Institute of Peace, announced today that Patricia Powers Thomson of IBM Business Consulting has been selected as the organization's next Executive Vice President.  As its second-ranking officer, Thomson will lead the Institute's internal management team, oversee and integrate substantive programs, and manage growth.  She will assume her position on August 1. "We are delighted that Trish is joining the Institute family.  She brings with h...