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.
In collaboration with the U.S. Institute of Peace, the new GDELT Global Dashboard offers a rolling, 180-day map of conflict and protests across the globe. The Islamic State's march across Iraq is instantly visible, civil war in Ukraine bursts into view ...
What will be the U.S.'s next military move against ISIS? We asked Steven Heydemann, vice president for applied research on conflict at Washington's U.S. Institute of Peace, to weigh in. Syria
Walk into Islamabad's city center and you will find charged crowds of as many as 70,000 people demanding Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's resignation from office. These protestors are part of two different sit-ins. One is led by Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri, ...
Scott Smith, who leads the Afghan program at the U.S. Institute of Peace, said, “If Abdullah's camp is the loser, but doesn't recognize the result, will they also be able to share power or not? I think that is probably going to be the main question ...
So we get sound bites rather than solutions to a real national-security threat. Robin Wright, author of “Rock the Casbah: Rage and Rebellion Across the Islamic World,” is a distinguished scholar at the U.S. Institute of Peace and the Woodrow Wilson Center.
CARBERRY: Andrew Wilder is an Afghanistan expert with the U.S. Institute of Peace. He says that while the atmospherics of the political talks are collegial, the key questions have yet to be resolved. WILDER: The devil is in the detail. What does a ...
A fragile cease-fire has temporarily stopped the violence in Gaza, and Israeli and Palestinian delegations have made efforts to negotiate a more permanent resolution. The only way they can succeed is to let the Palestinian Authority and its security ...
The Israeli military campaign in Gaza further undercuts Abbas because it is an opening for Iran, says U.S. Institute of Peace analyst Steve Heydemann. "It now seems as if Iran, at least, is hoping to use this crisis as a way to reinsert itself into the ...
But facing a counter-attack by the Kurdish Peshmerga, and unable to counter U.S. airstrikes in Iraq, U.S. Institute of Peace analyst Steve Heydemann says Islamic State fighters may also be more apt to refocus on Syria,. "It would be even more likely to ...
But driving those fighters back across the Syrian border will require a bigger push by the new government in Baghdad, says U.S. Institute of Peace analyst Steve Heydemann. "The U.S. has made very clear that it views this problem, the problem of ISIS, ...