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.
The connection between violent conflict and the famines that risk the lives of 20 million people in multiple countries of Africa and the Middle East was the topic of one of four appearances by USIP experts on Capitol Hill last week.
During the Brookings Institution's event on preventing and responding to gender-based violence in conflict, the US Institute of Peace's, Kathleen Kuehnast, who is the Director of the Center of Innovation for Gender and Peacebuilding, briefly mentioned ...
The 20th anniversary of the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) agenda comes at a time of great global turmoil. The rise of authoritarianism and extreme rightist ideologies around the world have generated backlash against gender equality and the idea of involving women in...
Attorney General Merrick B. Garland recently reversed a 2018 Trump administration decision that had made it almost impossible for people to win asylum in the United States if they were fleeing domestic violence in their home countries...
Six months into her job as the United States ambassador-at-large for global women’s issues, Kelley Currie has done little to demonstrate that she can restore American leadership on women’s rights while reporting to an ideologically driven administration known...
The Nobel Peace Prize awarded today to Nadia Murad and Dr. Denis Mukwege honors their work on behalf of women victimized amid violent conflict and will strengthen that effort worldwide. Murad, from Iraq’s Yazidi minority, survived abduction, abuse and rape by extremists of the Islamic State group and has campaigned internationally on behalf of victims of war. Mukwege, a physician from the Democratic Republic of Congo has treated thousands of victims of sexual violence amid the brutal warfare in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
From diplomats and contract workers to citizens on the ground, minds must be changed at every level, said Kathleen Kuehnast, senior adviser for gender and peacebuilding at the United States Institute for Peace. “That kind of change really happens in ...
“We are watching 21st century media, which we see as a form of freedom of expression, being used as a tool for extreme propaganda and violence,” explained Kathleen Kuehnast, the director of gender and peacebuilding at the U.S. Institute of Peace.
Officials should not view this recruitment of girls as just a “women's issue,” Kathleen Kuehnast, director of gender and peace-building at the United States Institute of Peace, said at Wednesday's hearing. She said it has implications for broader ...
Kathleen Kuenhast, senior adviser at the U.S. Institute of Peace, said sexual violence is "a huge security issue" in conflict zones. She said for it to not be as important as guns is to "absolutely miss the point" that sexual violence used in conflict ...