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.
US Institute of Peace South Asia Programme Director Moeed Yusuf said that Afghanistan was going to be dependent on international aid for the foreseeable future. “The problem is that the international community is growing disinterested in Afghanistan ...
“The borders that were designed by the British and the French rather arbitrarily a century ago are now being decisively challenged by ISIS,” said Robin Wright, a scholar at the United States Institute of Peace and the Wilson Centre, using an ...
Giving peace a chance Rarely do so many distinguished members of the foreign policy community gather in a single room. But this was the Great Hall of the United States Institute of Peace: a Washington "institution established and funded by Congress to increase the nation's ...
Many of the civil society leaders present commented upon this unique characteristic of this project and workshop," said Kathleen Kuehnast, Director of the Center for Gender and Peacebuilding at the United States Institute for Peace (USIP). Ambassador ...
But this was the Great Hall of the United States Institute of Peace: a Washington “institution established and funded by Congress to increase the nation's capacity to manage international conflict without violence.” The occasion was PeaceGame 2104: a ...
Many of the civil society leaders present commented upon this unique characteristic of this project and workshop," said Kathleen Kuehnast, Director of the Center for Gender and Peacebuilding at the United States Institute for Peace (USIP). Ambassador ...
The current goal is to reduce the U.S. presence to some 5,500 soldiers by 2016 and all American forces by the time President Barack Obama leaves office. Robin Wright is a joint fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace and the Woodrow Wilson International ...
During the Arab uprisings of late 2010 and 2011, it seemed that the strategies Arab leaders had adopted to keep themselves in power had left them vulnerable to an uncontrollable surge of mass mobilization. Yet by late 2014, even as Arab regimes ...
Robin Wright is a joint fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. She is on Twitter: @wrightr.
"New media outlets that use bit.ly are more likely to spread information outside the region than inside it, acting like a megaphone more than a rallying cry," says the United States Institute of Peace in its report Blogs and Bullets II: New Media and ...