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.
Although Ugandans voted in presidential and parliamentary elections on Thursday, the refusal by President Yoweri Museveni’s government to allow most election observers and the media to monitor the vote has had many democracy advocates deeply concerned. There have also been several incidents of violence against...
Ugandans faced a stark choice at the ballot box Thursday between strongman Yoweri Museveni and singer-turned-opposition icon Bobi Wine, who was just 3 years old when Museveni took power 35 years ago. Why it matters: Wine has tapped into the discontent and aspirations of young people, particularly...
The Gulf Arabs recognize a strategic reality that has eluded the stove-piped US foreign and security policy bureaucracy for too long: The Horn of Africa is an integral part of the Middle East’s security landscape, and increasingly so. No country demonstrates this more clearly than...
On January 29, USIP will convene top U.S. foreign policy and national security leaders for a bipartisan event to renew the U.S. commitment to the peaceful transition of power.
USIP's Senior Expert for Afghanistan Johnny Walsh discusses intra-Afghan talks and the...
Recent peace deals between Israel and Arab countries have not included the Palestinians. The Palestinians have viewed those deals as somewhat of an betrayal by other Arab states but future deals could hinge on...
The State Department on Friday released the Global Fragility Strategy, a document detailing how the U.S. administration intends to overhaul the country’s current approach to conflict prevention and stabilization in fragile contexts. The administration was required to...
The US’s decision to remove Sudan from its State Sponsors of Terrorism list after nearly three decades will benefit the country’s private sector by providing much-needed access to finance and technology, analysts told The National. “Short-term, it will allow the banking system to finally...
Months of demonstrations calling for the ouster of longtime authoritarian strongman Alexander Lukashenko had raised hopes for a democratic uprising in Belarus, a country of roughly 10 million people located in the tense geopolitical battleground between...
On October 6, news of a $50 million dollar investment to build a port in the Laotian town of Ban Mom led the business section of the Vientiane Times, a prominent state-run newspaper. In the second paragraph, readers were told that a man named Zhao Wei participated in...