Timing

Pakistan's Media: Dissecting its Coverage of Extremism, Terrorism and Pakistan-U.S. Relations

Date: Monday, December 6, 2010 / Time: 9:30am - 11:00am 

USIP's Center for Conflict Analysis and Prevention and Center of Innovation for Media, Conflict and Peacebuilding co-hosted a panel discussion on Pakistan’s media sector. The panel analyzed the role media plays in covering extremism and international relationships and discussed ways in which the media can contribute to an alternative narrative on Pakistani social issues, particularly in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.  

Conflict Analysis & Prevention

Engagement, Coercion, and Iran’s Nuclear Challenge: Report of a Joint Study Group

Date: Tuesday, November 16, 2010 / Time: 4:30am - 6:00am 

The U.S. faces important decisions as it prepares for talks with the Islamic Republic of Iran on its nuclear activities.  A distinguished group of 50+ scholars and policy analysts concluded that the U.S. should rebalance its approach to Iran, leveraging the gains achieved from sanctions by indicating a willingness to engage Iran diplomatically on a wide range of issues. The study group’s report is a broad prescription for rebalancing U.S. policy in a way that could increase the chances for s...

Conflict Analysis & Prevention

The Future of Nuclear Weapons and Missile Defense in NATO Security

Date: Monday, November 8, 2010 / Time: 4:00am - 6:00am 

The United States stationed thousands of nuclear weapons in Europe during the Cold War in order to support the common defense of NATO members in Europe. While the environment in which the NATO nuclear mission finds its purpose has changed since the Cold War and the number of U.S. nuclear weapons stationed in Europe has been scaled back significantly, concerns about Russian tactical nuclear forces, the Iranian nuclear program, and the political importance of nuclear weapons to NATO solidarity ...

Conflict Analysis & PreventionGlobal Policy

Women and War

Women and War

Start: Wednesday, November 3, 2010 at 7:00am / End: Friday, November 5, 2010 at 8:30am

In October 2000, the United Nations Security Council passed landmark Resolution 1325 on women, peace, and security, which linked women’s experiences of conflict to the international peace and security agenda, acknowledging their peacemaking roles as well as the disproportionate impact of violent conflict on women. Ten years later, the U.S. Institute of Peace co-hosted a three-day Women and War conference focused on the varied experiences of women during wartime and how to make sustained progr...

Conflict Analysis & PreventionGender

Afghanistan and Pakistan Insurgency: From Public Perceptions to Insurgent’s Grievances and Motivations

Date: Wednesday, October 20, 2010 / Time: 6:00am - 7:30am 

This event will bring together a distinguished panel of current USIP grantees to discuss motivations and grievances of the insurgents in Afghanistan and in Pakistan, feasibility and challenges of negotiations with Afghan insurgents, and the perceptions of Pakistani youth about the future of their country.

Conflict Analysis & PreventionYouth