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As Democrats and Republicans bicker over what really happened in Benghazi nearly four years ago, the State Department has quietly revamped its guidelines for protecting U.S. diplomats as well as employees of NGOs in overseas danger zones.
SUSAN HAYWARD is Director of Religion and Inclusive Societies at the U.S. Institute of Peace. MATTHEW J WALTON is Aung San Suu Kyi Senior Research Fellow in Modern Burmese Studies at St. Antony's College, University of Oxford. This essay is ...
Nancy Lindborg, president of the United States Institute for Peace, a federal conflict-analysis group, pointed to a March 2014 decision by the UN to move its emphasis from state building to the protection of civilians. “I can't guarantee that these ...
“When you work cross-border and without a consulate, things become very complex, very high risk, and very dangerous,” said Nancy Lindborg, president of the U.S. Institute of Peace and a former senior official at USAID. She likened the challenges of the ...
“This is one of the most complex, difficult things imaginable,” said Brett McGurk, President Barack Obama's envoy on the fight against Islamic State, speaking at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington this week. “We're not going to put a timeline on ...
“She appreciates that she is making a real contribution to peacebuilding in the Middle East and Africa,” according to the anonymous nomination read by USIP Executive Vice President Bill Taylor. In executing contracts and working with USIP partners, “she is often the face and voice of USIP.” The institute established the Samuel W. Lewis Award for the Advancement of Peacebuilding after his death in 2014 to commend extraordinary contributions to the work of USIP, institute President Nancy Lin...
He repeated this line about his countrymen being nonsectarian several times at his talk Tuesday at the U.S. Institute of Peace. When asked about how the Sunni Arab minority complain publicly that the government in Baghdad does not represent them, ...
Princeton Lyman is senior adviser to the president of the United States Institute of Peace and served as the US Special Envoy for Sudan and South Sudan from 2011 to 2013. Kate Almquist Knopf is director of the Africa Center for Strategic Studies and ...
A cadre of dialogue facilitators has emerged from Iraq's burgeoning civil society and worked with the U.S. Institute of Peace to guide successful negotiations like the one in Tikrit in a half-dozen locations over the past 10 years. In 2007 ...
“Mosul is now upon us,” he added at an event with the Iraqi foreign minister at the U.S. Institute for Peace, noting that the Iraqi Security Forces have not lost a battle in over a year. Iraq's foreign minister was also optimistic, calling Mosul “the ...