WASHINGTON--C-SPAN's Washington Journal will profile the United States Institute of Peace from 8:00–10:00 am on Thursday, December 11. The program will focus on the work of the Institute in conflict areas around the world, and specifically on programmatic plans for peacebuilding in Iraq.

Featured will be Institute President Richard H. Solomon, former assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, who has overseen the Institute's growth into a center of international conflict management activities; Executive Vice President Harriet Hentges, who has led the Institute's work into post-conflict stabilization beginning with its efforts in the Balkans and who currently oversees its peace operations in zones of conflict; Senior Fellow Ray Jennings, a development practitioner with extensive humanitarian assistance experience in post-conflict transitions and war torn societies, including Iraq, Afghanistan, Sierra Leone, and the Balkans, among others; and Senior Fellow Amatzia Baram, professor of Middle Eastern history at the University of Haifa, Israel and an expert on Saddam Hussein and Iraqi politics and history.

C-SPAN has also invited U.S. Institute of Peace Board Chairman Chester Crocker to appear at a later date to discuss international conflict generally since 9/11 and conflict on the African continent in particular. Crocker is research professor of diplomacy at Georgetown's School of Foreign Service, and former assistant secretary of state for African affairs.

C-SPAN's Washington Journal is a three-hour daily public affairs call-in program that airs seven days a week from 7-10am ET on C-SPAN's main network (C-SPAN "One"), and reaches 88 million households. It is also heard nationally on satellite radio, and streamed live on the Internet at www.c-span.org.

Note: For those who missed the live broadcast, online archives of previous Washington Journal segments can be found on C-SPAN's web site at www.c-span.org.