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.
... energy and financial resources" the U.S. has spent in Africa over the last several decades and now to help resolve conflicts on the continents, said Johnnie Carson, a senior adviser to the United States Institute of Peace and former U.S. Assistant ...
... from a boarding school -- a provocative attack that has drawn international outrage. To examine expectations for U.S. assistance, Jeffrey Brown talks to Jon Temin of the United States Institute of Peace and Heather Murdock of The Christian Science ...
The barrel bombs, a type of improvised explosive device dropped from Syrian helicopters and aircraft, are “making our life a nightmare,” Jarba said in an address at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington. “So we want weapons that would be able to ...
Speaking at the US Institute of Peace (USIP) without notes, Jarba, a slight, unprepossessing figure who comes from the northern Syrian city of Qamishli and is a member of the Shammar tribe with branches in Iraq and Saudi Arabia, sought to counter the ...
Speaking at the US Institute of Peace in Washington, Jarba claimed that such a move would help open the door for a political solution in Syria. He made the remarks ahead of talks with US Secretary of State John Kerry and other top US officials. Jarba ...
(Washington)—The United States Institute of Peace (USIP) announces the publication of NATO’s Balancing Act, by former USIP Senior Fellow David S. Yost. In recent years, NATO has come under increasing fire for its structural constraints and expanding functions, shortcomings in burden sharing among its members, and disagreements about threat assessments and priorities. Yost assesses these challenges and contends that NATO remains indispensable to the defense of the security and values of all th...
May 1, 2014 (JUBA) - A peace-building radio drama series, focusing on youth in South Sudan, launches countrywide next week. Sawa Shabab, a program locally Free Voice South Sudan in collaboration with the U.S. Institute of Peace, will air on Radio ...
Research by Wood and other academics in a 2013 United States Institute of Peace (USIP) report notes that armed groups even within the same war do not perpetrate sexual violence to the same extent or in the same forms. During the 1980-1992 civil war in ...
(Washington, D.C., and Juba, South Sudan) - Sawa (Washington, D.C., and Juba, South Sudan) - Sawa Shabab, a peacebuilding radio drama series for youth in South Sudan, will begin broadcasting across South Sudan the week of May 4. The drama series follows the daily lives of different young South Sudanese as they face unique challenges while learning how to become peacebuilders in their communities.
Sarhang Hamasaeed is a senior program officer for the Middle East with the U.S. Institute of Peace. SARHANG HAMASAEED, United States Institute of Peace: The issue is entangled, the sectarianism and the divide of the Sunni and the Shia is entangled with ...