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.
At the Washington-based U.S. Institute of Peace, a congressionally funded nonpartisan group that focuses on non-violent resolutions to international conflict and partners with the State Department, David Smock said the picture looked clearer to him.
... of the Kabul Bank scandal, a signal that he wants to advance a reformist agenda and regain the confidence of international donors, Scott Smith, director of the Afghanistan & Central Asia program at the United States Institute of Peace, said in a DW ...
Scott Smith, director of the Afghanistan and Central Asia program at the United States Institute of Peace, says in a DW interview that despite the rise in anxiety in 2014, there are very good reasons for optimism under President Ghani, who has spent ...
“The number-one ask [by Sharif] will be to continue funding to Pakistan,” said Moeed Yusuf, director of South Asia programs at the United States Institute of Peace. “It is that funding that the US leverages as well, now more so, because the US ...
Currently, he is a senior fellow at the United States Institute of Peace. Views expressed here are his own. The attack on the Hazara community in Quetta last month, which left 10 dead and many injured, comes amidst the recent spate of violence against ...
Stephen J. Hadley, who was national security adviser under President George W. Bush, is the board chair of the United States Institute of Peace, and is on the Leadership Council of the Franklin Project. In addition to its own editorials, USA TODAY ...
Daniel Brumberg, a special advisor to the U.S. Institute of Peace, said there are signals from Nidaa Tounes that it does not intend to form a coalition with Ennahda. That would be a miscalculation, he said. “If Nidaa Tounes opted to build a coalition ...
“I think what has happened in sub-Saharan Africa is entirely different from what has been happening in the Arab world,” said Ambassador Johnnie Carson, senior adviser to the president of the U.S. Institute of Peace and former U.S. assistant secretary ...
"African leaders like Blaise Compaoré who remain in power for long periods of time claim their leadership helps to foster stability, democracy and economic growth," Ambassador Johnnie Carson, a Senior Advisor at the United States Institute of Peace ...
Andrew Wilder, the vice president at the U.S. Institute of Peace's Center for South and Central Asia, has more hope for the bilateral aspect of Ghani's trip than for the Istanbul Process itself. In traveling to China, Ghani wanted “tangible commitments ...