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.
Inflicting yet another blow to Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP), the Afghan government said Tuesday that it had killed the group’s top judge, Abdullah Orakzai. Some experts charge that while eliminating Orakzai and other top ISKP leaders in recent weeks will...
Saad Boughdiri, a 68-year-old retiree, sits on the wall outside Parc Habib Thameur near central Tunis. For fourteen years, he says, he worked as a plumber and handyman at the Presidential Palace under Tunisia’s former autocrat, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. Now...
The massive explosion that rocked Beirut on Aug. 4 was felt some 160 miles away in Cyprus. It killed at least 180 people, wounded 6,000, and displaced another 300,000. Beyond the human toll, the city itself is devastated, with large swathes of the capital destroyed and...
Weeks of protests in Belarus over a disputed July election have become more of a push and pull battle between Moscow and an opposition that wants free and fair elections. While the United States and European nations have backed the opposition, Russia has...
Long-awaited talks between the Taliban and an Afghan delegation that includes members of the government are due to begin Saturday, in a diplomatic breakthrough that could bring the country a step closer to peace after four decades of war. Taliban spokesman Dr. Muhammad Naeem said...
The U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) is pleased to announce that Rita M. Lopidia, executive director and co-founder of the Eve Organization for Women Development in South Sudan, received the Institute’s inaugural Women Building Peace Award. This award recognizes the vital efforts of individual women pursuing peace in fragile or conflict-affected countries around the world.
Top U.S. and Chinese governing officials insist the commitments of a major trade deal are still moving forward despite the pandemic spread of COVID-19, but experts caution the...
The stable transformation of the Korean Peninsula requires the careful management of two intimately connected challenges: the advancement of peace on the peninsula, and an...
In the midst of the damage to public health and the global economy, the COVID-19 crisis could present an unexpected opportunity both to resolve the only hot war in...
Stopping the spread of the coronavirus is low on the agenda of underdeveloped countries in the Middle East and Africa. Instead, they are focused on protecting their...