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.
In this episode of Horns of a Dilemma, Doyle Hodges, executive editor of the Texas National Security Review, sits down with Hilary Matfess (a Ph.D. candidate at Yale University and a Peace Scholar Fellow at the United States Institute for Peace)...
Neil J. Kritz is senior scholar in residence at the United States Institute of Peace. He focuses on analyzing and advising on efforts to strengthen the Palestinian Justice system. He joins the guest host of Julie Mason Mornings, Elise Labott, to discuss the latest...
At 5 a.m. on Friday, April 9, in Bago, one of Myanmar's ancient capitals, heavily armed troops mounted an assault on demonstrators barricaded in along Ma Ga Dit and San Taw Din roads on the east side of town...
The threat of a new Russian invasion of Ukraine will top the agenda as Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin attend meetings with their counterparts at NATO headquarters in Brussels on Tuesday. NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg made headlines ahead of the U.S. delegation’s...
Keith Mines, director of the Latin America Program in United States Institute of Peace’s Applied Conflict Transformation Center, joins Julie Mason to discuss his perspective on the key to peace in Venezuela...
USIP Russia Director Don Jensen weighs the possible reason for Russia’s military buildup...
China has been accused by a US foreign policy institution of "setting the stage for a prolonged and extremely bloody war" in Myanmar – where protesters are being killed in their hundreds in a fight to restore democracy...
Like her mother and grandmother before her, Paw knows what it is like to flee assaults from Myanmar’s military – running from thatched-roof village huts into the jungle to huddle without food or warmth, yet afraid to make a fire lest it alert soldiers to their whereabouts. “Not long ago, the military used planes and airstrikes and dropped bombs in the Karen area,” says...
We are in one of the largest waves of nonviolent resistance in history. Even the COVID-19 pandemic could not stop massive uprisings in Thailand, Belarus, Myanmar, and elsewhere as ordinary citizens use nonviolent tactics to challenge entrenched authoritarians and demand reform. Yet, even as more and more people have...
“NARRATIVES are worthless in a world of misinformation,” tweeted Anthony Pompliano, founder and partner at Morgan Creek Digital, a hedge fund which specialises in blockchain technology and digital assets. This is an extremely valid point that should be considered by Pakistan’s narrative-obsessed...