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.
Sarhang Hamasaeed spoke to SiriusXM POTUS Ch. 124 about the tense week in which the Iraq Army and Kurdish forces clashed in the disputed area of Kirkuk. Hamasaeed explained since ISIS has been...
Most certainly, it stretches credulity that Pakistan’s military and intelligence establishment were in the dark about the US-Canadian couple held hostage (apparently by Islamist militants) for five long years before being freed...
Congress will kick off the coming week with formal negotiations on the budget caps-busting annual defense spending bill, with several looming points of contention that must be worked out by December.
Over the past few months, as the size of the Islamic State’s caliphate rapidly shrunk, the Pentagon began citing the number of enemy dead as an important barometer of longer-term success. “We have killed, in conservative estimates...
Jonas Claes spoke to SiriusXM POTUS Ch. 124 about Liberia’s election and the significance of the of the first peaceful transfer of power since 1944. Claes also spoke about the challenges for...
Reservations, even pessimism may still be visible, but this is natural in a democratic or open society, which Pakistan is now today. Critics can still look for weaknesses in foreign policy perceptions of Islamabad, but the truth will have to be acknowledged that ever since the country had a full time foreign minister, positivity has far outnumbered the opposite in presenting our case before the outside world.
UC Berkeley assistant professor Aila M. Matanock ’05 presented her research Friday on the importance of engaging rebel groups in the post-conflict political process. Matanock’s research is featured in her new book, "Electing Peace: From Civil Conflict to Political Participation." In the work, she argues...
Radio Pakistan reported in late November 2016 that the US president-elect Donald Trump is willing to play any role that Pakistan wants in order to find solutions to its outstanding problems. These remarks were made by US president-elect in a...
I am as clueless, as any other common Kashmiri about the shocking incidents that have been taking place for almost past two months all-over Kashmir. Some young journalist might have computed the number of incidents but I have almost lost the count. Nonetheless, with every sunrise scores of...