Nigeria: Time For More International Community Attention And Action
With less than a month to go before its national elections, Nigeria is awash with serious problems which are not likely to go away soon. - AllAfrica.com
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Evergreen Park Fifth Grader Earns Trip to Leadership Forum in Washington D.C. - Patch.com
Visit the new U.S. Institute of Peace and step inside the Global Peacebuilding Center and then take part in an international conflict resolution program. · Enjoy a private, pre-opening breakfast at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History ...
Yemen: The New Afghanistan - Wall Street Journal (blog)
... and with even fewer prospects for the young revolutionaries who just three years ago thought their nightmare had ended. Robin Wright is a joint fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. She is ...
Fighting hate speech with tech - Myanmar Times
To help counter the problem, newly minted innovation lab Phandeeyar, Myanmar ICT for Development Organisation (MIDO) and United States Institute of Peace (USIP) hosted a PeaceTech Exchange in Yangon's community and tech hub, SuleTech.
U.S. rapprochement with 'Red China' in 1972 may be repeated with Iran in 2015 ... - Tehran Times
“Defusing tensions with Iran would be Mr. Obama's biggest foreign policy achievement, dwarfing the Cuba overture,” said Robin Wright, a foreign affairs analyst at the U.S. Institute for Peace. But can it really happen? In terms of a larger game, Obama ...
Boko Haram terrorists gaining strength in Nigeria - Fox News
“The growth of this organization from a very small radical sect into a major violent threat to a significant part of Nigeria, but I would say [it's] a national crisis in Nigeria,” said Lyman, a senior adviser with the United States Institute of Peace ...
In Iran and US, Hard-Liners Apply Pressure Over Nuclear Talks - Wall Street Journal (blog)
Garrett Nada is assistant editor of the Iran Primer at the U.S. Institute of Peace. He is on Twitter: @GarrettNada. ALSO IN THINK TANK: Cuba, Iran–and Where Engagement Falls Short · How Will Women in the Middle East Fare in 2015? U.S.-Iran ...
Kerry praises Pakistan's crackdown on militants - The National
“Pakistan for the first time is feeling comfortable that there will not be a situation in Afghanistan that is completely antagonistic to it, as it perceived was the case,” said Moeed Yusuf, director of South Asia Programmes at the US Institute of Peace ...
In Iran and U.S., Hard-Liners Apply Pressure Over Nuclear Talks - The Wall Street Journal
A deal on Iran’s nuclear program would be one of the most important non-proliferation agreements in decades. Yet selling a deal at home may prove more difficult for the two administrations than the nuclear talks themselves.
A definitive history of Pakistan - The Express Tribune
The writer is affiliated with Express TV and is an editor at The Friday Times. Currently, he is a senior fellow at the United States Institute of Peace. Views expressed here are his own. Pakistan's best-known historian, Ayesha Jalal, is back with a new ...