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.
(Washington, D.C.) –William J. Burns, Michèle Flournoy and Nancy Lindborg announced today the launch of an independent and non-partisan Study Group on Fragility. The Study Group’s aim is to identify principles and recommendations for a strategic and effective U.S. foreign policy response to the interrelated security, humanitarian and development challenges posed by fragile states.
Trevithick had been Wright’s research assistant at the Wilson Center where Wright is also a fellow. Wright had obtained an exclusive statement from Trevithick’s parents that was posted on USIP's Iran Primer -- a key source of information about Iran that decision makers often cite as an invaluable resource tool for understanding what’s happening in Iran. The news media looked to Wright for commentary and analysis based on her decades of reporting on Iran and the region, as well as her unpre...
(Washington) – The U.S. Institute of Peace announces policy and communications professional Salih Booker as its new vice president for external relations. Booker will lead the outreach and public communications strategy of the Institute and will oversee the public affairs, public outreach, congressional relations and development portfolios.
“Hal was a true wise man, and a pillar in the world of peacebuilding and mediation,” said USIP President Nancy Lindborg. “When things were going crazy, you could count on him to be a calm, clear and compassionate voice. He was unflappable and unswerving in his belief that there was a pathway to peace." Harold H. Saunders served as assistant secretary of state from 1978 to 1981, and was part of the painstaking negotiations between Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian Presiden...
(Washington, D.C.) – The U.S. Institute of Peace announces Carla Koppell’s appointment as vice president for the Center for Applied Conflict Transformation. In the newly created position, Koppell will set the course for the center, which is focused on the resolution and transformation of violent conflict in fragile states.
The millions of people forced from their homes in the midst of the Middle East’s violent conflicts should be seen for the potential economic benefit they can bring, if the international community is to more effectively address the current crisis in the years to come, according to a report released today by a working group led by the U.S. Institute of Peace as part of an Atlantic Council-led task force
Washington, D.C. – Amid the unrelenting pressures of war, the Government of Iraq this week formalized its work with the U.S. Institute of Peace to advance reconciliation at all levels, a key element of the country’s post-conflict stabilization and reconstruction. The agreement between USIP and Iraq’s National Reconciliation Committee further strengthens a partnership that has yielded results such as the return of thousands of people to the northern city of Tikrit after it was recaptured from ...
Istanbul, Turkey -- U.S. Institute of Peace President Nancy Lindborg submitted the Institute’s commitment at the World Humanitarian Summit’s High-Level Leaders’ Roundtable: “Changing People’s Lives: From Delivering Aid to Ending Need.” The commitment focuses on the importance of preventing and ending the violent conflicts that are now driving historic levels of global displacement and unmet humanitarian needs.
(Washington, D.C.) – A day after the United States’ deadliest-ever mass shooting, His Holiness the Dalai Lama led a Washington audience in a silent prayer for peace—but said prayers will be ineffective without “serious action” to erode religious and other communal divisions.
“She appreciates that she is making a real contribution to peacebuilding in the Middle East and Africa,” according to the anonymous nomination read by USIP Executive Vice President Bill Taylor. In executing contracts and working with USIP partners, “she is often the face and voice of USIP.” The institute established the Samuel W. Lewis Award for the Advancement of Peacebuilding after his death in 2014 to commend extraordinary contributions to the work of USIP, institute President Nancy Lin...