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(Washington) – The United States Institute of Peace releases Pandemics and Peace: Public Health Cooperation in Zones of Conflict, a new study revealing lessons in infectious disease control and international health cooperation. Identifying infectious disease as a first-order problem affecting the security and welfare of the international system, author William J. Long explores the extent to which public health cooperation can lead to new and improved forms of transnational political cooperation in a host of important areas, such as counterterrorism, environmental challenges, resource management, human rights protection, and economic assistance.

Senator George J. Mitchell, special envoy for the Middle East, delivered the 2010 United States Institute of Peace (USIP) Dean Acheson Lecture, on Monday, May 24 in front of a packed audience.

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. In his new role, he will focus primarily on analyzing and advising on efforts to strengthen the Palestinian justice system.