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.
A third report was published by the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) in April. It looks at one political process in particular: constitution writing. The authors surveyed political systems from Iceland to Ghana, Somalia to Fiji, Libya to Nepal, and ...
A third report was published by the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) in April. It looks at one political process in particular: constitution writing. The authors surveyed political systems from Iceland to Ghana, Somalia to Fiji, Libya to Nepal, and ...
... high and there is really not the luxury of letting this be a long drawn-out process as we had in the 2009 disputed election, at which time you had an incumbent president," observes Andrew Wilder of the Washington-based United States Institute of Peace.
Fiona Mangan, a Libya expert with the United States Institute of Peace's Governance Law and Society Center, said while it did not appear that UN buildings in Libya were deliberately targeted, they had been caught in the crossfire. "[The violence] has ...
Some of the members had meetings at the U.S. Institute of Peace as well as at Capitol Hill, the Pentagon, the U.S. Agency for International Development and the State Department. The delegation included Rita Manchanda, the Research Director of South ...
The Post-Gazette editorial of June 20, “Sudan's Struggles: Efforts to Heal the Divisions Have Not Succeeded,” concluded on an ominous note. The conclusion was that the United States has little constructive role to play in Sudanese affairs: “Leaving ...
Andrew Wilder, vice president of the Center for South and Central Asia at the United States Institute of Peace, said the release of the results might help foster negotiations between the two parties. "It's useful to have the preliminary results out ...
In 1994, on the eve of Rwanda’s genocide, Radio Mille Collines, in Kigali, incited listeners with a venomous message: “To kill the big rats, you have to kill the little rats.” It was a veiled command to murder the youngest generation of Tutsis, the country’s minority tribe.
“The events in Iraq are stiffening the resolve of those inside Syria who are opposed to ISIS,” said U.S. Institute of Peace Vice President Steven Heydemann, who recently oversaw a human rights law training for Free Syrian Army fighters and local police ...
Afghanistan’s presidential election has reached its most decisive phase, with preliminary results of the June 14 runoff election between Abdullah Abdullah and Ashraf Ghani expected July 2...