WASHINGTON—Kay King, a former deputy assistant secretary of state for legislative affairs, has been named director of the new Office of Congressional and Public Affairs at the United States Institute of Peace. She will lead and expand outreach initiatives to Congress, the media, and the public for the Institute, and advance its mission to promote the prevention, management, and peaceful resolution of international conflicts. King brings a wide range of professional experience in the public, ...

WASHINGTON—The United States Institute of Peace has recently been tasked by Congress to address peace-building in Iraq. Programs under development seek to de-escalate ethnic tensions and inter-communal violence; create opportunities for institution and capacity building; and promote the constitutional process and the rule of law generally. Other emphases are on the facilitation of inter-religious dialogue, educational initiatives, and fostering public debate on democratization, reconciliation...

WASHINGTON—The U.S. Institute of Peace Press has just published French Negotiating Behavior: Dealing with La Grande Nation, written by Charles Cogan, senior research associate at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government and affiliate at the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies and the Center for European Studies. "Armed with a formidable understanding of French culture and history," Cogan analyzes the elements of France's particular negotiating style and then examine...

WASHINGTON--C-SPAN's Washington Journal will profile the United States Institute of Peace from 8:00–10:00 am on Thursday, December 11. The program will focus on the work of the Institute in conflict areas around the world, and specifically on programmatic plans for peacebuilding in Iraq. Featured will be Institute President Richard H. Solomon, former assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, who has overseen the Institute's growth into a center of international...

WASHINGTON—The Crisis Management Initiative (CMI) and the United States Institute of Peace are co-hosting a conference on Information and Communications Technology and Crisis Management in Hotel Kämp, Helsinki. The conference will explore practical steps toward improving information sharing, coordination, and cooperation from headquarters to the field, and between and among the various organizations responding to crises. The conference participants will include high-level representatives of i...

WASHINGTON—The United States Institute of Peace is pleased to announce the selection of its 2003-2004 Peace Scholar dissertation fellows, each of whom will receive a $17,000 stipend. The funding will support research addressing conflict in Colombia, Rwanda, Sudan, China, the countries of West Africa, and elsewhere. The Peace Scholar fellowship recipients represent a diverse array of academic disciplines—political science, architecture, journalism, anthropology, and others—and a cross-section...

WASHINGTON—Roy Gutman, a correspondent in Newsweek's Washington bureau and a senior fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace, recently returned from a research trip to Afghanistan and Pakistan, where he interviewed Pakistani officials, former Taliban supporters, journalists, and NGO representatives about al Qaeda infiltration of the Taliban and the record of human rights violations during the civil war. He spoke recently on the gaps between what is now known about Afghanistan before September 11...

The U.S. Institute of Peace is pleased to announce the launch of its redesigned web site. The product of three years of research, consultation, and implementation, the new site provides an invigorated presence on the World Wide Web as part of the Institute's ongoing efforts to increase its reach to audiences around the globe. The new site features improved navigation and graphic design, and expanded content across the site. The launch was spearheaded by web developer Amy Bucci and web edit...