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.
Two hundred peace champions from 10 universities of Punjab and KP executed 100 social action projects to mobilise at least 3,000 youth for peaceful elections in Pakistan. This was disclosed at a briefed by a leading youth development organisation...
Dutch Ambassador in Pakistan Ardi Stoios-Braken on Thursday said she was impressed to see that the Pakistani youth, in its capacity, was taking several initiatives for the peaceful holding of elections. Speaking during a closing event of the project titled “Youth Actions for Peaceful Elections” by a leading...
Two lawmakers are hoping to draw attention to the problem of illegal wildlife poaching and how it helps fund terror groups. Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) and Rep. Ed Royce (R-Calif.) on Tuesday discussed the issue...
The Trump administration is making a renewed push to jump-start peace talks in Afghanistan and is considering restarting direct negotiations with the Taliban, a move that in the past has drawn protests from the Afghan government. U.S. and Afghan officials described the possibility of talks between...
A string of violent attacks at political rallies, killing nearly 160 people this past week, has the nation on edge about security for the upcoming national elections, with some political leaders accusing the Pakistani government of not doing enough to protect the electoral process. On Saturday, bloody images of one of the attacks...
The upcoming U.S. midterms have brought renewed scrutiny to the practice of gerrymandering in the United States. But the practice of drawing legislative districts to entrench political elites and disenfranchise others has advanced to an extreme degree in other countries as well...
Teaching international conflict resolution empowers students to become leaders in their own communities, say three high school educators who have spent the past school year teaching peacebuilding through social studies and foreign language courses. The teachers, part of a 2017-18 cohort doing...
This week, a new proposal for a power sharing government was tabled at the ongoing Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) High Level Revitalization Forum (HLRF) peace talks for South Sudan. An earlier, 2015 peace deal also contained a formula for power sharing; that arrangement failed and...