Experts from the U.S. Institute of Peace provide the latest analysis and perspective on the world’s critical hot spots, U.S. and global security and issues involved in violent conflict, based on the Institute’s work on the ground and with key individuals, governments and organizations. They give interviews and background briefings to journalists and write for news outlets around the world.
"There is a vast need in Iraq in political, diplomatic, economic and social terms that needs to be addressed, and you need to have a plan for that," says Sarhang Hamasaeed, a former deputy director of the Council of Ministers of the Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq, now director of Middle East programs at the U.S. Institute of Peace.
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Family, students and colleagues of Amb. Richard Solomon remembered him April 3 at the U.S. Institute of Peace, which he led and shaped for 19 years. Solomon—a scholar and diplomat who helped accomplish the 1970s opening of U.S. relations with China—died last month at age 79.
The Harvard Humanitarian Initiative honors U.S. Institute of Peace President Nancy Lindborg today with an annual award bestowed on “a visionary public figure who has demonstrated superior leadership in a time of humanitarian crisis.”
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“We haven’t gained ground [on cease-fire negotiations] because there is never a sense that Assad will be held accountable for the brutal assault against his civilians,” said Nancy Lindborg, president of the congressionally funded United States Institute of Peace.
Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi's party has been in office for only a year, but by-elections held earlier this month are one signal of discontent among many. The contest over 19 seats was not large enough to be a game changer, and voter turnout was fairly low, yet the results are an indicator of the public's view of the National League for Democracy's performance thus far.
Efforts to dismantle ISIS strongholds have been concentrated in Iraq and Syria. But a small stronghold of fighters made up of former Taliban members has grown in eastern Afghanistan since 2014. The group is known as Islamic State Khorasan, according to a U.S. Institute for Peace report released in November.
So where do things stand today? How far or near, in fact, is Colombia from peace? It’s happening, slowly but surely, says Virginia Bouvier, a senior advisor for peace processes at the U.S. Institute of Peace, in this podcast with AS/COA Online’s Holly K. Sonneland.