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.
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 ...
But some monks have emerged to play a role in challenging anti-Islamic messages, and they will be key to efforts to halt future violence, said Susan Hayward, a program officer at the U.S. Institute of Peace who has been working with interfaith groups ...
Number crunching and pattern recognition may hold the key to predicting and preventing conflicts. But first, peace-builders need to change the way they do business.
Ambassador Kay commented on Tuesday at the Washington-based U.S. Institute of Peace. African Union and Somali troops have driven al-Shabab out of most major Somali cities and towns, but the militants continue to carry out attacks. Somali Prime Minister ...
Lukman Faily, Iraqi ambassador to the United States. (@FailyLukman). Sarhang Hamasaeed, senior program officer for the Middle East and Africa at the U.S. Institute of Peace. Denise Natali, fellow at the Institute for National Strategic Studies at the ...
The Pakistani military has occasionally signaled that it would launch an offensive, but Moeed Yusuf, director of South Asia programs at the United States Institute of Peace, a nonpartisan Washington think tank, said that wouldn't occur without the ...
Jon Temin, the Africa programs director at the U.S. Institute of Peace, told VOA the U.N. camps were not set up to handle large numbers of civilians. "Their safety and security is a major concern. The U.N. is not set up to care for 70,000 people," said ...