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.
After 9/11, when American Muslims were still very much living isolated in the shadows of a growing Islamophobia in the land, it was none other than a prominent American Hindu leader who reached out to me and wished to honor my work through her center’s inaugural peace prize.
When Radwan Ziadeh was living in his hometown of Daraya, southeast of Damascus, its population was 300,000. Now, he says, the population is zero. Ziadeh, a political opponent of the Bashar al-Assad government, came to the U.S. after his...
In the midst of the Barrage of criticism trailing the statement made by the President of the World Bank Group, Mr Jim Yong Kim on President Buhari’s request for the Bretton woods institution “specific” concentration on the Northern Region, there comes a soothing relief on Friday October 13, 2017 courtesy of former Minister of education and co-founder Bring Back Our Girls Dr. Mrs, Oby Ezekwesili who was at a time the world Bank Vice President.
The American contribution to the defeat of the Islamic State (ISIL) has given Washington a new prestige in Iraq. Indeed, the United States has an extraordinarily favorable image in Baghdad. It is hard to overstate the significance of what Iraq has accomplished in the past three years...
Nancy Lindborg spoke to SiriusXM POTUS Ch. 124 about the challenges North Korea’s nuclear capabilities are presenting. Lindborg discussed the talks currently taking place that have unified support to levels previously unrealized...
Nonformal dialogues offer complementary approaches to formal dialogues in national peacemaking efforts in contexts of conflict. As exemplified by the nonformal dialogues in...
Rıza Sarraf davasıyla ilgili çeşitli iddialar son günlerde ABD medyasının gündeminde yer almaya devam ediyor. Washington Post gazetesinin köşe yazarı David Ignatius, ABD’yle Türkiye arasında krizin asıl nedeninin Sarraf davası olduğunu iddia etmiş, Erdoğan’ın Rıza Sarraf’ı kurtarmak için müthiş bir kampanya yürüttüğünü öne sürmüştü.
Pakistani officials have described the mission to free an American woman, her Canadian husband and their three children as a harrowing operation and a rare bit of positive news in the troubled relationship between their country and the United States.
The last couple of weeks have seen much diplomatic activity between Pakistan and the US. I am struck by the overly positive read-out of the engagement in Pakistan’s media. True, these efforts signify...
Recognising this, he has supported both the US Institute for Peace and the Woodrow Wilson Center, which bring scholars and practitioners to develop programmes to try to find peaceful means for conflict resolution, Islam said.