Friday, December 8, 2023
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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.
Jonas Claes on Liberia and Kenya's elections - SiriusXM POTUS Ch. 124
Jonas Claes spoke to SiriusXM POTUS Ch. 124 about Liberia’s election and the significance of the of the first peaceful transfer of power since 1944. Claes also spoke about the challenges for...
Sarhang Hamasaeed discusses recent events in Kirkuk - SiriusXM POTUS Ch. 124
Sarhang Hamasaeed spoke to SiriusXM POTUS Ch. 124 about the tense week in which the Iraq Army and Kurdish forces clashed in the disputed area of Kirkuk. Hamasaeed explained since ISIS has been...
سعيد للحرة: ضروري تقليل حدة التوتر بين بغداد وأربيل - Al Hurra
لقاء مع مدير برامج الشرق الأوسط في معهد السلام الأميركي سرهنك حمه سعيد قضاء الإقليم يصدر مذكرة اعتقال بحق 11 نائبا وقياديا في فصائل الحشد الشعبي ردا على مذكرات مماثلة بحق مسؤولين أكراد
Experts urge US, Pakistan to readjust their stances - Dawn
The United States and Pakistan need to engage in a transaction of interests, instead of each being overly focused on persuading the other that its interests are the ones that need to dominate the conversation, says Laurel Miller, a former US special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan.
History as Lodestar - Greater Kashmir
I am as clueless, as any other common Kashmiri about the shocking incidents that have been taking place for almost past two months all-over Kashmir. Some young journalist might have computed the number of incidents but I have almost lost the count. Nonetheless, with every sunrise scores of...
Trump’s Af-Pak Policy: Threats & the Retreat - Greater Kashmir
Radio Pakistan reported in late November 2016 that the US president-elect Donald Trump is willing to play any role that Pakistan wants in order to find solutions to its outstanding problems. These remarks were made by US president-elect in a...
Professor Talks Post-Conflict Elections and Colombian Politics - Harvard Crimson
UC Berkeley assistant professor Aila M. Matanock ’05 presented her research Friday on the importance of engaging rebel groups in the post-conflict political process. Matanock’s research is featured in her new book, "Electing Peace: From Civil Conflict to Political Participation." In the work, she argues...
Benefits of full-time foreign minister are now clearly visible - Pakistan Observer
Reservations, even pessimism may still be visible, but this is natural in a democratic or open society, which Pakistan is now today. Critics can still look for weaknesses in foreign policy perceptions of Islamabad, but the truth will have to be acknowledged that ever since the country had a full time foreign minister, positivity has far outnumbered the opposite in presenting our case before the outside world.
The American swami of peace - Daily Times
After 9/11, when American Muslims were still very much living isolated in the shadows of a growing Islamophobia in the land, it was none other than a prominent American Hindu leader who reached out to me and wished to honor my work through her center’s inaugural peace prize.
How Buhari Fuelled Criticism For Jim Yong Kim Statement - Signal
In the midst of the Barrage of criticism trailing the statement made by the President of the World Bank Group, Mr Jim Yong Kim on President Buhari’s request for the Bretton woods institution “specific” concentration on the Northern Region, there comes a soothing relief on Friday October 13, 2017 courtesy of former Minister of education and co-founder Bring Back Our Girls Dr. Mrs, Oby Ezekwesili who was at a time the world Bank Vice President.