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.
Will the pope’s Myanmar visit bring any relief to persecuted Rohingya? - PBS NewsHour
Without mentioning the Rohingya by name, Pope Francis spoke out in Myanmar of the need to respect all ethnic groups. It was unclear whether the pope pressed leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who has downplayed the severity of the attacks in the past, on the issue of persecution. William Brangham talks to Priscilla Clapp, former...
Amanpour - CNN
Was he wrong for not specifically mentioning the Rohingya? What should Aung San Suu Kyi be doing to right the crisis? Amanpour speaks with a former ambassador and Amnesty's Crisis Response
MEI Panel Tackles Mideast Priorities - Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
“Assessing U.S. Middle East Priorities” was the title of the opening panel at the Middle East Institute’s 71st annual conference at Washington, DC’s Capital Hilton Hotel. The Nov. 15 discussion, moderated by Mary Louise Kelly, national security correspondent for...
Where things stand with North Korea - Public Radio International
The crisis between the United States and North Korea is as grave as it has been since the early 1990s, when President Bill Clinton contemplated bombing North Korea’s nuclear facility at Yongbyon. The two sides have irreconcilable positions: North Korea is determined to...
Egypt Is in Trouble, and Not Just from ISIS - New Yorker
Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, a wilderness of deserts and raw mountains about the size of West Virginia, is famed for its Biblical history, Bedouin tribal life, and Red Sea resorts. But, now that the Islamic State’s caliphate in Iraq and Syria has been destroyed...
Tentative Deal May See Myanmar’s Rohingya Go Home—But To What? - The Cipher Brief
Are Bangladesh and Myanmar poised to make progress to address the refugee crisis involving hundreds of thousands of ethnic Rohingya? Maybe. The two countries signed an agreement to repatriate hundreds of thousands of Rohingya who have fled their homes...
Ballot box safety a huge worry - My Republica
As the Election Commission (EC) and the political parties have agreed to begin vote counting only after the casting of ballots in both phases of the parliamentary and provincial assembly elections are complete, safeguarding the ballot boxes for days is going to be a challenge.
Veteran South Asian diplomat Howard B. Schaffer, 88, dies - India Abroad
Howard B. Schaffer, retired U.S. diplomat-turned-scholar once considered the pre-eminent South Asian specialist in the State Dept., died on Nov. 17 at the age of 88.
آیا استراتژی جدید امریکا طالبان را به میز مذاکرات صلح خواهد آورد؟ - Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
جنگ و صلح افغانستان از بحثهای کلیدی و پیچیده در حلقههای گوناگون سیاسی و نظامی بودهاست.
Mugabe Is The George Washington Of Zimbabwe - Pod Save the World
Tommy talks with Africa expert Ambassador Johnnie Carson about the coup in Zimbabwe that toppled Robert Mugabe, and the recent political turmoil in Kenya.