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.
Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine William Taylor discusses the White House press briefing, and also shares insight into President Joe Biden’s virtual meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin...
The turbaned Taliban gather in front of the entrance to the deserted barracks. They fish their smartphones out of their vest pockets, switch on their flashlights, and illuminate the ghostly darkness inside. There are no windows in the corridor, nor the small, neat rooms to the left and right. If it weren’t for the nice office chairs and the comfortable bathroom cubicles, one might mistake them for cells. But the rooms are part of a section of a now abandoned military base in Shkin, in southeastern Afghanistan, that was once occupied by U.S. forces, including CIA officers...
American neglect of Southeast Asian forums, coupled with China’s efforts to court the region, have left Washington playing catch-up in the influence stakes. That’s according to a recent report by the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney, which urged Washington to engage more actively with regional institutions such as the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean), the East Asia Summit and the Asean Defence Ministers’ Meeting Plus...
Growing up in the slums of Cameroon, Joseph Sany said he witnessed urban violence and police oppression regularly. He heard about genocide in Rwanda, and he saw more violence firsthand when he worked with NGOs and visited countries like Liberia and Sierra Leone during...
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...
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...
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...
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...