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.
“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...
A report by the United States Institute of Peace has given reasons why the Boko Haram terrorist group has been able to recruit many Nigerian youths. The report made available to LEADERSHIP yesterday draws extensively from a larger study to examine ...
We asked Aymenn al-Tamimi, a fellow at the Middle East Forum who studies the Syrian jihad; Steven Heydemann, vice president for applied conflict research at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington, and Theodore Karasik, director of research and ...
Robin Wright, a joint fellow at the United States Institute of Peace and the Woodrow Wilson International Center, is the author of “Rock the Casbah: Rage and Rebellion Across the Islamic World.” A version of this op-ed appears in print on June 30, 2014 ...
Organizations like the United States Institute of Peace, which we both serve, have been helping create the conditions for a peaceful transition that will make Afghanistan more stable and less violent, while improving the lives of the Afghan people. A ...
As the United States draws down its forces in Afghanistan and shifts from direct combat to the narrower mission of countering terrorism and training Afghan forces, some might think this is the time to declare “job done” and focus U.S. attention elsewhere. That would be a mistake.
(Washington) – Culminating a three-day educational program at its headquarters, the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) named the three national winners of the National Peace Essay Contest. Over 1,000 students submitted their essays in response to this year's question on security sector reform, political transition, and sustainable peace. Anna Cole of Colorado earned first place and a $10,000 scholarship; Sun Woo Lee, of New Hampshire earned second place and a $5,000 scholarship; and Hany...
"When you conduct an air strike, it is very difficult to distinguish who you are hitting at the moment," Sarhang Hamasaeed, senior program officer for the Middle East and North Africa programs at the U.S. Institute of Peace, told Xinhua. Hitting the ...
Ending conflict demands more than knowing why countries go to pieces -- it calls for knowing why they don't.