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.
South Sudan faces an existential crisis. More than four million people – between a third and half of the population – are displaced from their homes. Nearly eight million (opens in new window) people are in need of humanitarian assistance. The economy is in tatters. After almost four years of civil war, conflict has devolved into fighting across multiple fronts.
In a speech Tuesday at the Wilson Center in Washington, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said the Trump administration is “committed to addressing the totality of the Iranian threat,” asking America’s allies “to join us in standing...
Was he wrong for not specifically mentioning the Rohingya? What should Aung San Suu Kyi be doing to right the crisis? Amanpour speaks with a former ambassador and Amnesty's Crisis Response
Without mentioning the Rohingya by name, Pope Francis spoke out in Myanmar of the need to respect all ethnic groups. It was unclear whether the pope pressed leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who has downplayed the severity of the attacks in the past, on the issue of persecution. William Brangham talks to Priscilla Clapp, former...
Pour assurer la sécurité des personnes et de leurs biens, l’Institut des Etats-Unis pour la paix (USIP) et l’Association malienne des droits de l’homme s’engagent à créer une synergie d’action entre la population et les forces de l’ordre. Dans ce cadre, un match gala...
Pakistan and the US are making yet another effort to find common ground. Multiple high-level delegations have engaged in recent months. We have seen reports of renewed drone strikes in Pakistan that the latter has denied but not objected to. In Afghanistan, there has been...
Пажуҳишгари Институти Сулҳи ИМА Баpмак Пажвок мегӯяд, марзи Тоҷикистону Афғонистонро қочоқчиёну ифротиҳо ноором мекунанд. Дар як суҳбати вижа бо Радиои Озодӣ ӯ дар бораи вазъи Афғонистону минтақа паҳлуҳои дигарро низ баҳс кард.
Are Bangladesh and Myanmar poised to make progress to address the refugee crisis involving hundreds of thousands of ethnic Rohingya? Maybe. The two countries signed an agreement to repatriate hundreds of thousands of Rohingya who have fled their homes...
Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, a wilderness of deserts and raw mountains about the size of West Virginia, is famed for its Biblical history, Bedouin tribal life, and Red Sea resorts. But, now that the Islamic State’s caliphate in Iraq and Syria has been destroyed...
The crisis between the United States and North Korea is as grave as it has been since the early 1990s, when President Bill Clinton contemplated bombing North Korea’s nuclear facility at Yongbyon. The two sides have irreconcilable positions: North Korea is determined to...