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 prime minister, a Shiite, has failed abysmally in creating a formula to share power with the Sunnis, the traditional political masters in Iraq," said Robin Wright, a joint fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace and the Woodrow Wilson Center, non ...
After the first round of voting in the presidential race in Afghanistan, where over 7 million Afghans went to the polls on April 5, 2014, a handful of political pundits and interest groups urged the two leading candidates, Dr. Abdullah Abdullah and Dr. Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai, to make a deal to avoid a second round scheduled for June 14.
A recent report from the U.S. Institute of Peace states, for example, that Boko Haram's growth is fueled by “poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, and weak family structures” as enabling elements for youth recruitment. Young men join extremist armed
The performances, part of the Voter Education and Fraud Mitigation project of the NYC-based Bond Street Theater and supported by the United States Institute of Peace (USIP), operate in areas that are isolated, conservative and volatile, and often ...
In a recent USIP publication, Bill Byrd, Casey Garret Johnson, and Sanaullah Tasal described some of this hedging behavior. This includes people ... Scott Smith is the Director for Afghanistan and Pakistan Programs for the United States Institute of Peace.
Other groups with support from the U.S. Institute of Peace are carrying out engagement activities like rap contests to find an election anthem. The winners were awarded $ 1000 and their videos were posted on YouTube: Official Election Anthem by Sami ...
According to Manal Omar, an Associate Vice President at the the U. S. Institute for Peace, that strategy helps filmmakers tackle controversial topics governments may not want discussed. She says artists throughout the Middle East are being forced to ...
“The democratic aspirations of the protesters who filled streets and public squares across Syria in early 2011 were among the conflict's first casualties,” Steven Heydemann, of the Center for Applied Research on Conflict at the United States Institute ...
The scenarios are based on the 2006 war with Israel, which Hezbollah says it won. “As game development cycles go, that's very quick,” says Derek Gildea, a games designer and Middle East specialist with the U.S. Institute of Peace. On his own time ...
U.S. officials dismiss his re-election as a farce. But for Assad, the vote signals a sharper confrontation to come, according to U.S. Institute of Peace analyst Steve Heydemann. "We have a Syrian regime that is going to dig in, is going to insist on ...