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.
Nancy Lindborg, first female president and CEO of the United States Institute of Peace, provided her insight on the roots of world conflict in a speech at the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey School of Public Affairs Tuesday.
In a melancholy yet defiant open letter, from one revolutionary to another, Mehdi Karroubi pleaded over the weekend to be put on trial in Iran. His dissent could no longer be silenced, he wrote in his letter to President Hassan Rouhani, a former colleague, and he declared, “We must stand up against the idea of a regime with one single voice, made so through monopolizing an unaccountable power.”
A confluence of factors have pushed humanitarian needs to a level not seen since the end of World War II. But in a report given exclusively to the Monitor, aid experts say the know-how is in place to build a 21st-century response system.
Concerns over Monday's referendum in the Darfur region are throwing the peace process there in doubt.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry suggested that Afghanistan's national unity government could continue beyond September, a step that could irk the opposition even as he attempts to avert a brewing political crisis.
More than two years have passed since Russia launched a campaign of aggression against Ukraine – and the casualties, physical destruction and economic damage continue to mount. On March 30, hundreds of people attended a forum on Capitol Hill focusing on the devastating impact of Moscow’s war against Ukraine and U.S. efforts to assist Ukrainians with the humanitarian, economic and security crises brought on by Vladimir Putin’s hybrid military invasion.
CCTV America’s Mike Walter interviewed Priscilla A. Clapp, senior adviser at U.S. Institute of Peace & Asia Society about Myanmar politics.
A new initiative by Peace Tech Lab aims to provide anonymously available usable data that people in conflict zones can take advantage of to strategize and counter violent extremism on the ground.
Members of Congress are expressing increasing concern about the Obama administration's response to recent provocative actions by Iran that the president has said violate the "spirit" of the nuclear agreement, but not the letter of it.
Last month, the United Nations issued a warning about the long-term consequences—including the biological impact—of a generation mired in war. Worldwide, eighty-seven million children under the age of seven have lived their entire lives in conflict zones.