FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - April 22, 2009 Contact: Lauren Sucher              Tom Casey                                Tom Callahan +1-202-429-3822        +1-301-543-5536                        +1-301-543-5536 lsucher@usip.org          thomas.h.casey@lmco.com        thomas.j.callahan@lmco.com (Washington) -- Lockheed Martin Corporation has become the premier sponsor of the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) annual Dean Acheson Lecture for five years beginning in 2009. In addition to pr...

Contact: Lauren Sucher +1-202-429-3822 lsucher@usip.org   (Washington) – The United States Institute of Peace (USIP) has named Tara Sonenshine as the Executive Vice President of the Institute. Image on right: Tara Sonenshine Sonenshine joined the USIP leadership team in January 2009 as Vice President for Planning and Outreach. In that capacity, Sonenshine has overseen strategic planning, public outreach and publications. She also manages the planning of the Public Education Center th...

U.S. Institute of Peace, Which Facilitated the Commission, Will Hold Press Conference on May 6 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - April 30, 2009 Contact: Lauren Sucher +1-202-429-3822 (Washington) – Next Wednesday, May 6, a group of senior experts with decades of public service will present its final report on our nation’s strategic posture, to include its nuclear weapons strategy, to the President and Congress. They will detail their findings and respond to media questions in a press conference. ...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - April 13, 2009 (Washington) -- The United States Institute of Peace (USIP) announces the winners from each state and abroad of the National Peace Essay Contest. Fifty American high school students from around the U.S., and one living in South Korea, have written winning essays. Each student has won a $1000 college scholarship and an invitation to Washington, D.C. for an all-expense paid, five-day seminar in June. This year's essay topic was crimes against humanit...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Institute of Peace announced today that Brenda Oppermann, most recently a policy advisor on gender and democracy issues with USAID's Iraq Reconstruction Office, will be chief of party at the Institute's Baghdad office starting in January. A. Heather Coyne, the current chief of party, will return to Washington to work as a senior program officer in the Institute's new Center for Conflict Management and Resolution. "The Baghdad office is essential to our Iraq programs bec...

WASHINGTON – Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, co-chairs of the Task Force on the United Nations, are scheduled to testify before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Science, State, Justice and Commerce (SSJC) on Wednesday, June 22 at 10 a.m. in Room 2359 Rayburn House Office Building. SSJC Chairman Frank R. Wolf (R-VA), who authored the legislation mandating the report, will preside. Gingrich and Mitchell will discuss the findings and...

WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has named Barry Lowenkron, assistant secretary for democracy, human rights, and labor, as her ex-officio designee to the Board of Directors of the U.S. Institute of Peace. In her letter to Institute President Richard Solomon announcing the designation, Secretary Rice expressed her wish to "maintain the close relationship that exists between the Institute and the Department of State." She called the Institute "one of the best organizations for t...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Institute of Peace released a major report today on Iran and Iraq: The Shia Connection, Soft Power, and the Nuclear Factor, which underscores Iran's critical relationship with post-Hussein Iraq. Furthermore, it highlights how Iran's relations with the United States, other countries in the region, and the international community could impact regional stability. "The greatest threat to regional stability with respect to Iran and Iraq currently revolves around the Iranian ...