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.
After the Syrian revolution began in 2011, the Kurdish people formed their own semi-autonomous area in Syria called Rojava. Their alliance with the U.S. has kept Syrian and Turkish forces out of the region and bolstered territorial gains. But questions over...
Host Carol Castiel interviews Nancy Lindborg, President of the United States Institute of Peace, to discuss USIP’s mission, research regarding a strategy to prevent the spread of extremism around the world and the vital role of women in successful conflict resolution negotiations.
After nearly 18 months, two Reuters journalists have left prison in Myanmar. The crime that put them there: Revealing information the country’s government wanted to suppress, about its persecution campaign against Myanmar's Rohingya Muslim minority...
The caliphate may be gone in Iraq and Syria but ISIS is rebranding and finding new places to terrorize, this time in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. ISIS claimed its first attack in the central African country on April 18 when “soldiers of the caliphate” attacked a military barracks along the...
So vast and disorienting was the Easter Sunday carnage strewn by coordinated suicide bombings on churches and hotels in Sri Lanka that investigators at first overestimated the death toll. It was recalibrated at 253 dead Christian worshipers and tourists...
USIP mourns the passing of Senator Richard Lugar, a Navy veteran who represented Indiana in the U.S. Senate for over three decades. As a long-time member, and two-time chair, of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Senator Lugar’s leadership on foreign policy issues—such as nuclear disarmament and sanctions on apartheid South Africa—made the world a safer, more peaceful place.
Political changes of a magnitude not seen since the immediate post-Cold War period are underway in the Horn of Africa, a region at the strategic crossroads of the Middle East, North Africa, and the Sahel. Yet the risks and opportunities for the United States posed by these tectonic shifts have...
All parties to the negotiations with North Korea are trying to chart a path forward after the second Trump-Kim summit in Hanoi. Most of the post–summit analyses focus on denuclearization steps, corresponding sanctions relief, and potential symbolic moves toward peace. But the parties still have...
There is nothing like a major crisis or unprecedented diplomatic opening for rallying normally contentious neighbors around a common cause. If a collective fear of war on the Korean Peninsula facilitated coordination among Northeast Asian states in late 2017, and optimism for a...
One disturbing aspect of the Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka was that the slaughter of 321 victims came at a time when the United States is suffering what might be described as terrorism fatigue. The wars against al-Qaeda and the Islamic State are part of a painful past that policymakers and...