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May 2013 | Olive Branch Post by Namrata Goswami

New Delhi hosted an Indo-Chinese summit this week, and the two major Asian powers, which have significant border disputes that flared recently, face a long-term choice of cooperation or competition.

"We Pretend To Work, And They Pretend To Pay Us" Travails Of Mutual Accountability In Afghanistan
May 2013 | Peace Brief by William Byrd

USIP’s Bill Byrd examines the challenges to the Tokyo Mutual Accountability Framework for Afghanistan, and what could be done to make its implementation more effective.

Countries: Afghanistan | Issue Areas: Economics and Conflict
May 2013 | Olive Branch Post by Ted Feifer

Smart v. tough, seeing a problem from another’s viewpoint – these are some of the skills USIP’s Ted Feifer explores during a week-long program for government officials that illustrated an evolving political culture in Central Asia.

Countries: Turkmenistan | Issue Areas: Education, Training
USIP Meeting Examines Kenya’s Peaceful Elections
May 2013 | News Feature by USIP Staff

A May 21 panel at USIP assessed the reasons for a largely peaceful election this year in Kenya, where more than 1,000 people had been killed in post-election violence in 2007-08.

Countries: Kenya | Issue Areas: Security Sector Reform/Governance
Syria Leaves U.S., EU Uncertain How to Meet Pledge to Prevent Atrocities
May 2013 | News Feature by Maral Noori

Despite pledges to carry out the principle of the responsibility to protect against mass killings, the U.S. and the EU have struggled how to respond to Syria, even as the scale of human loss eclipses that of Libya before the international community intervened. A USIP panel considers how to move forward.