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.
The Islamic State group (IS) could be the major beneficiary of the conflict between the United States and Iran as tensions reach a new level between the two countries over the U.S. killing of Iran’s most powerful commander, Qassem Soleimani, experts...
It is safe to assume that Iran will react to the killing of Qassem Suleimani through violent but asymmetric means. An Iranian counter-strike might not come immediately but Tehran is sure to mobilise its various proxies and identify ways to inflict pain on the US. While the...
This year has been one of the most tumultuous in recent relations between the U.S. and North Korea, following a series of threats and warnings from both sides, optimism at the prospect of talks and discouragement when they collapsed. North Korean...
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani won another five-year term in office, according to preliminary results the election commission announced on Sunday, nearly three months after votes were cast in an election tarnished by a record-low turnout. Mr. Ghani...
For years, South Sudan’s warring leaders have delayed putting an end to their country’s brutal conflict, scuttling peace talks and blowing past deadlines as the death toll mounted and a refugee crisis caused upheaval across the region. The perpetual delays are straining...
In “Violence Is Sometimes the Answer,” Kai Thaler argues that the use of violence by protesters is sometimes necessary, particularly in the face of aggressive regime violence, and critiques those “preaching nonviolent resistance” from the outside. These are...
President Donald Trump and North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong Un are both facing substantial pressure to come up with some sort of agreement to advance their historic denuclearization-for-peace process by the end of the year, but experts feared a...
This year saw protests across the globe, as citizens bridled under what they consider the tyranny of their governments. From Iraq to Zimbabwe, Hong Kong to Chile, demonstrators even in places with ample surveillance and retributive regimes have worked to...
Tensions are quickly rising between the United States and North Korea, which has ramped up pressure as it demands concessions by President Donald Trump's administration by the end of the year. The United States called a UN Security...
Suhail Shaheen, the political spokesman for the Taliban, has told The Media Line that the group remains “committed to making a peace deal” with the United States. Shaheen was speaking in the wake of a declaration made last week by US...