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.
When Antony Blinken became the No. 2 at the State Department during the Obama administration in 2015, his mandate was clear: Focus on Asia. The rocky relationship between two crucial Asian allies, Japan and South Korea, had deteriorated over the issue of wartime sex slaves. Later that year, with the help of the United States, the two countries...
Scott Worden, US Institute of Peace Director Afghanistan and Central Asia Programs, joined Julie Mason to discuss the one year anniversary of US-Taliban Peace Deal.
One year after the signing of the February 29, 2020 US-Taliban provisional peace agreement, the Afghan group called for the withdrawal of all foreign troops by a May 1 deadline. Any attempt to renegotiate the accord will result in the failure of peace efforts, the Taliban warned in a statement released to the press...
When Pope Francis lands in Iraq on March 5 for an unprecedented papal visit to the country, he’ll begin three days of high-level religious diplomacy. In Baghdad, he will meet political leaders and Catholic priests and nuns at the site of an al-Qaeda attack in 2010. The next day, he will travel 100 miles south to...
Sudan's Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok has named a new cabinet in keeping with the Juba Agreement. But is this new government a genuine step towards meeting popular demands or simply a smoke screen for keeping the military in power?
‘The toughest of all battles lies at home’ – aptly says a Pashtun proverb. Unfortunately, the fleeting consensus achieved during the last two decades on finding the genesis of terrorism and extremism ‘within’ is in danger of being lost. The country is facing a new wave of violence. As we were slowly coming out...
Ill-defined “sectarianism” is often mentioned in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region as the reason for its population’s misfortunes. For decades, the international community and most of the region’s elite have tried vainly to impose Western-style secular nation-state models. The outcome has been...
Inspector General of Police Punjab Inam Ghani has said that apart from crime fighting, strengthening and improving the atmosphere of mutual trust and cooperation with the citizens is one of my priorities and it will establish...
Ten years ago, a wave of unprecedented unrest ignited the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region as citizens took a stand against regimes with a long history of authoritarianism and fraying socioeconomic stability. Ever since, there has been...
The Punjab Police’s three-day conference on 21st century policing and reforms under the Citizen Centric Policing Initiative (CCPI) is beginning from Wednesday (today). The Punjab Police department has formed various working groups, comprising retired and serving inspectors general of police (IGPs) and...