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.
"[This earthquake] underscores how vital it is to redouble our investments in resilience," says Nancy Lindborg, president of the U.S. Institute of Peace. In the short term, Lindborg says rescue and relief efforts must prioritize saving lives and ...
A gradual lifting of sanctions on Iran could reopen the Middle East’s second largest economy (after Saudi Arabia) to US and Western companies. Many European companies were active in Iran until 2010, but American companies have avoided doing business in the Islamic Republic for decades, either by choice or due to sanctions.
But Mark Shaw and Fiona Mangan, authors of Illicit Trafficking and Libya's Transition, issued by the United States Institute of Peace, emphasise how organised crime and illegal trafficking is undermining efforts to stop the further disintegration of ...
... to learn how to design, prepare and launch a community service project on their own and also participated in an interactive workshop on conflict and peacebuilding hosted by the Global Peacebuilding Center at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP).
Winning the Peace in Iraq Is Bigger Than Winning the War Foreign Policy (blog) Just over 30 years ago, Ethiopia’s famine regularly made the news. Gruesome accounts of up to a million deaths stemming from drought and civil war captured the attention of aid agencies, sympathetic governments, and humanitarian groups around the world.
... is associate vice president of the Center for the Middle East and Africa at the U.S. Institute of Peace. , Sarhang HamasaeedSarhang Hamasaeed is a senior program officer for the Middle East and North Africa Programs at the U.S. Institute of Peace ...
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, in the midst of his first official visit to the United States since taking office in September, conferred with a group of current and former top U.S. officials and other experts at the U.S. Institute of Peace today.
... borders—something likely to happen only after populations tire of endless wars—is the only way forward, says Stephen Hadley, who served as President George W. Bush's national security adviser and now chairs the board of the U.S. Institute of Peace.
They're really concerned,” William Taylor, acting executive vice president at the United States Institute of Peace, says of Baltic countries like Latvia and their NATO partners. Taylor was a former infantry officer in the Army who served as U.S ...
His speech, titled “Responding to Mass Atrocities: Personalities, Politics, and Principle,” will focus on his experiences as a U.S. special envoy for Sudan and South Sudan and as a senior adviser for the United States Institute of Peace. The second ...