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.
Howard B Schaffer, an American diplomat who spent much of his 36-year career dealing with US relations with South Asia, passed away on Friday November 17th, 2017 of old age complications. He served as ambassador to Bangladesh (1984-87), political counselor at American embassies in India...
Former Chief Election Commissioner Bhojraj Pokharel oversaw the historic 2008 national elections, navigating through an extremely difficult time to hold a successful election. Mukul Humagain talked to Pokharel, now a senior research fellow studying the reduction of election violence at the Washington-based Institute of Peace...
You summon a ride using the Kaweyan Cabs taxi-hailing app, listening to upbeat Pashtun pop as your driver takes you through streets clogged with traffic. You get to the workshare space at the Hub, where you rent a desk and spend a few hours responding to emails on your laptop, and perhaps play a few rounds...
The crisis of governance that is most disturbing and corrosive is occurring at the state level and reflects a world of more and more perennially weak, corrupt, or captured states that are unable or unwilling to meet the needs of their citizens, to provide an inclusive...
One rainy afternoon in early January 2014, I met with a group of Syrian women in a Geneva café as the latest rounds of Syria peace talks were getting underway. They had organized a nearly countrywide network of women who were already working on...
در برنامۀ صبحگاهی خبرهای تازه از افغانستان و جهان و گزارشهای تحلیلی و مصاحبه ها در پیوند با رویدادهای داغ افغانستان و جهان به شما پیشکش می شود.
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The indisputable fact of the unfolding Rohingya crisis is that more than 600,000 people have been forced to flee across the Burmese border into Bangladesh since August, with terrible reports of rape and ethnic cleansing. Beyond that, however, the facts of what happened — and how — dissolve into confusing...
The Dalai Lama says he has appointed emissaries to attend international engagements or speak on his behalf indefinitely. Citing increasing physical fatigue, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader made the comments while meeting with a group of international youth leaders brought to Dharmsala, India, by the Washington-based Institute of Peace.
A visitor to Zimbabwe’s capital city could be forgiven for missing the apparent military coup underway at Harare’s “Blue House.” But despite business-as-usual in much of the city, anxiety and confusion are rife beneath the surface. Just before dinnertime in the capital on...