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.
Carla Koppell spoke to SiriusXM POTUS Ch. 124 about U.N. Security Council Resolution 1325 for the protection of women and girls in addition to their participation in peace negotiations. Koppell’s analysis included the remaining work to be done for including women...
While terrorism may feel like a fact of life in many parts of the globe, what would it take to end it? Robin Wright, a journalist and joint fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, explored that question in a recent article for the New Yorker.
US South Asia policy is an alarming indication of Pakistan’s foreign relations becoming weaker in the region. With Pakistan rejecting any blame for exporting terrorism, the US is romancing India as a sound partner in its ‘war on terror’ in Afghanistan...
fter four months on the front line fighting the Taliban, Ahmad Zai was exhausted. It had been a hot, demanding summer for the Afghan National Police, holding territory taken from the Taliban or rushing to reinforce...
Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta was set to be declared the winner in an election in which he had virtually no competition after the opposition National Super Alliance (Nasa) withdrew the candidature...
The liberation of Raqqa in Syria marks a watershed in the campaign against the Islamic State. Both a symbolic and strategic defeat, the fall of the capital of the group’s self-proclaimed caliphate further diminishes its dwindling territory...
Radio Pakistan reported in late November 2016 that Donald Trump was willing to play any role that Pakistan wanted in order to find solutions to its outstanding problems. These remarks were made by Trump, then president-elect, in a telephonic conversation...
The results of Kenya’s presidential election are not yet in, and voting will continue in some areas on Saturday, but Raila Odinga’s decision to boycott the election leaves only one outcome possible: President Uhuru Kenyatta will have the...
Neil Kritz spoke to SiriusXM POTUS Ch. 124 about the pending agreement to heal a decade of division between Hamas and Fatah. Kritz explained what effects the reconciliation would have on the larger Middle East Peace Process.
Nada Kabil thought her friends had checked in advance about whether it was OK to wear a hijab at the ACE Club, a country club for expatriates in Cairo’s upscale Maadi district. So, she was taken aback when she arrived and was told that she needed to either take off her head covering or...