U.S.-Africa Summit: To Spur Growth, Address Violence and Governance

U.S.-Africa Summit: To Spur Growth, Address Violence and Governance

Tuesday, August 5, 2014

The high-profile U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit in Washington this week is an opportunity not to be missed. Fifty leaders of African nations are convening in with President Barack Obama in a demonstration of America’s commitment to Africa’s own priorities for economic growth, security and democratic development. The U.S. can draw on Africa’s impressive progress and its enormous potential by jointly developing an all-embracing strategy to confront the continent’s central challenges: violence and institutional weakness.

Type: Analysis

Conflict Analysis & PreventionEnvironmentEconomics

Crucial U.N. Peacekeeping Is Stretched to 'Absolute Limits'

Crucial U.N. Peacekeeping Is Stretched to 'Absolute Limits'

Thursday, June 11, 2015

The alarming state of the overtaxed United Nations peacekeeping system endangers human rights, genocide prevention, development and the prospects for sustainable peace, USIP board Vice Chairman George Moose told an audience June 5 at the annual membership meeting of the United Nations Association of the National Capital Area.

Type: Analysis

Conflict Analysis & PreventionEducation & TrainingHuman RightsGlobal Policy

Former Rep. Jim Marshall Becomes USIP’s Fourth President

Former Rep. Jim Marshall Becomes USIP’s Fourth President

Friday, September 14, 2012

By: Thomas Omestad

Former U.S. Congressman Jim Marshall became the fourth president of the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) on September 14, taking the oath of office and telling an audience at USIP’s headquarters in Washington, D.C., that he and the Institute’s staff are committed to the mission of “peace for the United States and for the world.”

Type: Analysis

State Dept.’s Schwartz Calls for Stronger Humanitarian Capabilities

Friday, September 30, 2011

By: Thomas Omestad

In tackling complex humanitarian crises in the Horn of Africa and elsewhere, the U.S. government will “proceed on two fronts—building our national capacities while strengthening the multilateral system of humanitarian response,” Eric P. Schwartz, the assistant secretary of state for population, refugees, and migration told an audience at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) on September 28.

Type: Analysis

Human Rights

Q&A: Amid Boko Haram’s War and Postponed Vote, What Prospects for Nigeria’s Election?

Q&A: Amid Boko Haram’s War and Postponed Vote, What Prospects for Nigeria’s Election?

Tuesday, February 10, 2015

By: James Rupert

Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, begins 2015 at the brink of both a historically important election and a breakdown of state authority that is simultaneously cause and effect of the Islamist Boko Haram rebellion. Nigeria’s ability to govern itself effectively will be critical in determining whether Boko Haram can be contained or continues to grow into a trans-national threat like that of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in the Middle East.

Type: Analysis

Conflict Analysis & PreventionDemocracy & Governance