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.
The Women in the Middle of the War - Foreign Policy (blog)
Rampant sexual assault has unmade allegiances in Syria's civil war -- and it may well get worse no matter which side wins. By Manal OmarManal Omar is associate vice president of the Center for Middle East and Africa at the U.S. Institute of Peace ...
How to Stop Extremism Before It Starts - Foreign Policy (blog)
Maria J. Stephan is a senior policy fellow at the United States Institute of Peace and a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council. The views expressed are her own. Shaazka BeyerleShaazka Beyerle, a Washington, ...
Can anything break the Syrian war stalemate? - PBS NewsHour
Since the start of Syria's war four years ago, more than 200,000 people have died and millions have been made homeless. Two rounds of peace talks have already failed. What can be done to bring an end to the war? Judy Woodruff talks to Steven ...
Global Arms Sales Climbing - Wall Street Journal (blog)
Robin Wright is a joint fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. She is on Twitter: @wrightr. ALSO IN THINK TANK: The Risks in Negotiating With Syria's Assad · How Four Years of Civil War Has ...
Kiev, not Moscow, should be the choice for marking VE Day - Los Angeles Times
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and British Prime Minister David Cameron have rightly turned down Vladimir Putin's invitation to go to Moscow on May 9 to mark the 70th anniversary of the Allies' victory in Europe, and President Obama may soon follow ...
UN Report: Yemen's Saleh Took Billions - Voice of America
Analyst Graeme Bannerman at the Washington-based U.S. Institute for Peace said the GCC immunity deal was more than a political one. “I think the GCC saw this as an opportunity to replace the Zaydi [a Yemeni tribe Saleh belongs to] ruler with a Sunni ...
Peaceful Protest&Slow And Steady&Is Winning The Race To Create Change - Co.Exist
"I never use the term peaceful, by the way," says Maria Stephan, a senior policy fellow at the U.S. Institute For Peace Studies and a non-resident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council. Stephan and her colleague, Erica Chenoweth, are scholars of ...
Keep the Russian sanctions - New York Times
The writer, a former American ambassador to Ukraine, is acting executive vice president of the United States Institute of Peace.
Why We Need to Keep Forces in Afghanistan - New York Times
To the Editor: Your March 9 editorial “No Cause to Delay the Afghan Pullout” ignores the compelling logic of a broad, bipartisan consensus in the national security community and Congress: that a full United States military withdrawal from Afghanistan ...
In War Against ISIS, Numbers Don't Always Tell the Story - Wall Street Journal (blog)
Robin Wright is a joint fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. She is on Twitter: @wrightr. ALSO IN THINK TANK: How Four Years of Civil War Has Destroyed Syria · In Muslim Men's Protests, Support ...