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Five years later, the costs and consequences of the uprisings have stunned the world. “Perhaps we in the international community, and the people on the ground, were naïve and misled by how easy the Tunisians made it seem,” Sarah Leah Whitson, the executive director of Human Rights Watch, told me this week.
That level of victim participation in a peace process is unprecedented, according to Virginia Bouvier, a senior advisor at the United States Institute of Peace. The FARC has to be convinced to surrender its arms.
Robin Wright, distinguished scholar at the Wilson Center in Washington and the U.S. Institute of Peace, examines Kerry's remarks and the potential for U.S.-Russian cooperation on ISIS.
To understand how difficult it would be to construct the 1,814-kilometer TAPI pipeline to eventually carry some 33 billion cubic meters of gas from southern Turkmenistan all the way to Fazilka, India, RFE/RL's Turkmen Service, known locally as Azatlyk, assembled a Majlis, a panel discussion, to review the situation for TAPI as construction begins in Turkmenistan.
With the rise of the Islamic State group, there have been questions about just who speaks for Islam and what the message should be. Chief foreign affairs correspondent Margaret Warner talks with Manal Omar of the United States Institute of Peace and ...
U.S. forces are assisting their Iraqi counterparts in wrestling the city of Ramadi from ISIS control. Robin Wright breaks down the city's significance and how other events like the Syrian civil war threaten stability in the region.
After a year marred by violence that has led some people to suppose that confrontation is inevitable among humanity's religions, a busload of Muslims in northeast Kenya has given us all a gift beyond measure for Christmas and the New Year.
A new Ukraine was born in the Maidan, but the United States and Europe have thus far failed to make an adequate commitment to its success. That must change. The West must now provide support commensurate with the military and economic threat Kiev faces, while also pushing the Ukrainian government to reform. A global order based on rule of law is at stake. Defending it cannot be done on the cheap. For the West, a Ukraine impoverished by Kremlin aggression will be far more costly.
Andrew Wilder, vice president of Asia programs at the United States Institute of Peace, speaks with NPR'S Scott Simon about why the war in Afghanistan intensified in 2015.
After the dramatic drawdown in the number of U.S. and NATO troops, the Taliban were bound to seize ground as those forces withdrew. “When you go from 100,000 troops down to about 10,000, there should be no surprise that there’s a consequence in the security situation,” said Andrew Wilder