WASHINGTON - The U.S. Institute of Peace is pleased to announce the selection of its 19th class of Senior Fellows in the Jennings Randolph Fellowship Program. Named in honor of former U.S. Senator Jennings Randolph of West Virginia, a founder of the Institute, the program affords leading policy practitioners and researchers opportunities to examine non-violent approaches to the resolution of international conflict and postconflict stabilization. In welcoming the new group, most of whom will ...

WASHINGTON – The Institute of Peace launched a new project as part of its Muslim World Initiative, entitled “Challenges to Genuine Democratization in the Arab World.” Under the direction of Daniel Brumberg, Special Advisor to Institute, this project explores the risks, costs and benefits of Arab states moving beyond state control to genuine democratization. The project examines key Arab states that have begun to experiment with political liberalization through the political system, media ind...

WASHINGTON – His Excellency Jan Eliasson, President of the United Nations General Assembly, will speak about United Nations reform in the context of current global challenges in a presentation entitled “The United Nations at a Crossroads.” The U.S. Institute of Peace will sponsor the on-the-record event, which is scheduled from 3:30-4:30 p.m. on September 25, 2005 at the New Canaan Library in New Canaan, NY. The presentation will be followed by questions from the floor; a reception will follo...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Institute of Peace is pleased to announce the selection of its 2005-2006 Peace Scholar dissertation fellows, each of whom will receive a $20,000 stipend. The funding will support research addressing conflict in the Congo, Iraq, Palestine, Peru, Sierra Leone, East Asian countries and elsewhere. The Peace Scholar fellowship recipients represent a diverse array of academic disciplines including political science, psychology, anthropology and others ? and a cross-section of...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Institute of Peace is pleased to announce that General Shlomo Brom, former Israeli Deputy National Security Advisor, will serve as a guest scholar in residence starting in September 2005. As Israel now completes its disengagement from the Gaza Strip and the Northern West Bank, General Brom will look ahead toward the next phase of the peace process. His research will focus on Israeli national security thinking about Palestinian statehood and the future of Israel's relatio...

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Institute of Peace released a major report today on "Turkey and Iraq" which underscores Turkey's critical role in the stabilization and reconstruction of Iraq. "Turkey, not unlike Iran, has the capacity to both impede and facilitate progress for the U.S. and its allies in Iraq," writes Henri J. Barkey, the report's author.  The report is part of the Institute's "Iraq and its Neighbors" research project which brings together leading specialists on the geopolitics of the ...

WASHINGTON, DC – Jessica Perrigan of Omaha, N.E. was awarded first prize in this year’s National Peace Essay Contest, sponsored by the U.S. Institute of Peace.  A student at Duchesne Academy, Perrigan received a $10,000 college scholarship for her essay titled “Finding Peace: Japan and Cambodia.”  In announcing the winner at the Institute’s annual NPEC awards banquet on June 22, Institute President Richard H. Solomon commented on the high quality of the essays and the difficulty of the subjec...

WASHINGTON – Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, co-chairs of the Task Force on the United Nations, are scheduled to testify before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Science, State, Justice and Commerce (SSJC) on Wednesday, June 22 at 10 a.m. in Room 2359 Rayburn House Office Building. SSJC Chairman Frank R. Wolf (R-VA), who authored the legislation mandating the report, will preside. Gingrich and Mitchell will discuss the findings and...