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 impacts of Boko Haram have reverberated across the breadth of Nigeria. Citizens, especially in areas directly affected by the conflict, are finding innovative ways to successfully resist the insurgency. Beyond the despair and destruction, three women are working to...
Foreign Secretary Tehmina Janjua on Tuesday said that Pakistan was facing discrimination regarding its desired membership of the privileged Nuclear Suppliers Group. Speaking at a one-day national seminar on “Strengthening strategic export controls by internal compliance” here, she said Pakistan was the most suitable applicant for the NSG.
Last month, former St. Louis police officer Jason Stockley was acquitted of the 2011 murder of Anthony Lamar Smith, a black man. The decision launched a weekend of protests that engulfed our city and campus, and served as another episode...
The U.S. Department of State’s Office of Global Partnerships (S/GP), has opened the application process for the first Boldline P3 Accelerator, which will support and scale innovative public-private partnerships (P3s) from around the world. The competition is open to participants from...
Carla Koppell spoke to SiriusXM POTUS Ch. 124 about U.N. Security Council Resolution 1325 for the protection of women and girls in addition to their participation in peace negotiations. Koppell’s analysis included the remaining work to be done for including women...
While terrorism may feel like a fact of life in many parts of the globe, what would it take to end it? Robin Wright, a journalist and joint fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, explored that question in a recent article for the New Yorker.
US South Asia policy is an alarming indication of Pakistan’s foreign relations becoming weaker in the region. With Pakistan rejecting any blame for exporting terrorism, the US is romancing India as a sound partner in its ‘war on terror’ in Afghanistan...
fter four months on the front line fighting the Taliban, Ahmad Zai was exhausted. It had been a hot, demanding summer for the Afghan National Police, holding territory taken from the Taliban or rushing to reinforce...
Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta was set to be declared the winner in an election in which he had virtually no competition after the opposition National Super Alliance (Nasa) withdrew the candidature...
The liberation of Raqqa in Syria marks a watershed in the campaign against the Islamic State. Both a symbolic and strategic defeat, the fall of the capital of the group’s self-proclaimed caliphate further diminishes its dwindling territory...