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.
Many Americans remember where they were when Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated April 4, 1968, at the Lorraine Motel. A few were actually there. We know what became of some of them. King’s deputy Ralph Abernathy struggled to fill his shoes. Jesse Jackson ran for president.
After the U.S. and its European allies coordinated to expel more than 100 Russian diplomats in response to the March poisoning of a former Russian spy and his daughter in the UK, some analysts are arguing the punishment may have been the wrong move.
In sweeping retaliation for Russia’s growing aggression in the West, the United States and nineteen other nations expelled more than a hundred and thirty Russian intelligence officers and diplomats on Monday. The coördinated rebuke—galvanized after Moscow’s alleged assassination attempt on a former double agent living in Britain—is unprecedented since the Cold War, which ended more than a quarter century ago.
On March 22, the US Institute of Peace (USIP) hosted a conversation with Afghanistan’s National Security Advisor H.E. Mohammad Haneef Atmar. USIP President Nancy Lindborg introduced Minister Atmar, who gave remarks and then engaged in a conversation with USIP Board Chair and former US National Security Advisor Steven Hadley.
In this very interesting interview from the Time Space Existence series (you can see it here thanks to our media partner PLANE-SITE) Israeli-born Canadian architect Moshe Safdie (b. 1938, in Haifa) goes into various aspects of architectural design, including how also unbuilt architecture can be significant, the way his design approach has changed over time, and how also a contemporary building could be timeless.
There has been no positive response from Pakistan on the South Asia strategy of Trump administration, which has a significant impact on the reduction of violence and capabilities of the terrorists in this war-torn country, a top Afghan official said today.
Speaking at the United States Institute of Peace, President Ashraf Ghani’s National Security Adviser Mohammad Hanif Atmar on Thursday said some countries in the region have ties with the Taliban and that this will harm regional consensus on fighting terror.
Afghanistan’s national security adviser said Thursday in Washington that the number of foreign fighters flocking to Afghanistan is increasing — an alarming trend that could portend continued U.S. involvement in the war.
Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan cautioned that as the physical caliphate has mostly gone down in Iraq and Syria, ISIS has fanned out to other countries.
The US State Department sees the private sector as an ever-important part of the rebuilding and reconstruction processes in Iraq and Syria.