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.
Pakistan and Uzbekistan have exchanged goods through war-torn Afghanistan for the first time, in a move hailed as a milestone for regional economic integration. A Pakistani cargo truck transported medicine from the port city of Karachi on April 9 to...
Tripoli is the city of many names. Some people call it “Bride of the Revolution”, others the city of “openness”, while there is also the stigma that Tripoli is a city of terrorism. All of these have some truth. We have seen the vibrant revolution in Tripoli, including the...
On Friday, the Director of the Office of the United States Institute of Peace in Libya “Neath Wilson”, accompanied by the local partner and the possible organization for awareness and information, visited the municipality of Nalut, in the context of supporting...
France may talk the talk when it comes to its concerns over Egypt's handling of human rights, but at the end of the day, the African country is its best customer of arms and closest ally in the fight against political Islam. When French President Emmanuel Macron visited Egypt in January 2019, he...
Huawei officially launched HarmonyOS this week, its new mobile operating system. The company was forced to build its own in-house OS after the Trump administration banned it from accessing key U.S. technologies including Alphabet’s Android. While Harmony is widely derided...
Biden administration officials say they are not pushing to add other countries to the strategic U.S.-India-Japan-Australia “Quad” group but stress that the future of American policy in the Indo-Pacific region hinges on the deepening alignment among...
Joseph N. Sany is the Vice President of the newly established Africa Center. For the past 20 years, Joseph has been working on peacebuilding with civil society, governments, businesses and international organizations in Africa. Prior to joining USIP...
he horrors of the "reeducation camps" for Uyghurs in the Xinjiang region of northwest China are now coming to light, thanks to an independent tribunal now meeting in London. The stories the center's "students" are telling are not for the faint of heart. Speaking to...
Protesters returned to the streets of Mandalay last Saturday, stamped on the flag of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and then burned it. A student leader in Myanmar's second-largest city said opponents of the junta, the State Administration Council, will...
(Washington, D.C.) – The U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) has chosen the following teachers to participate in the Institute’s 2021-2022 Peace Teachers Program: Jessica Culver of Ozark High School in Ozark, Arkansas; Haydee Rodriguez of Central Union High School in El Centro, California; Erin Sullivan of Cab Calloway School of the Arts in Wilmington, Delaware; David Pearl of Yarmouth High School in Yarmouth, Maine; Matthew Morrison of International Academy in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan; and Kim Warren of Utah International Charter School in Salt Lake City, Utah.