For Immediate Release, June 1, 2010 Contact:  Allison Sturma, 202/429-4725 or asturma@usip.org (Washington) -- Senator George J. Mitchell, special envoy for the Middle East, delivered the 2010 United States Institute of Peace (USIP) Dean Acheson Lecture, on Monday, May 24 in front of a packed audience. Senator Mitchell was introduced by Richard H. Solomon, president of USIP and by Michael A. Dignam, president for Readiness & Stability Operations at Lockheed Martin Corporation, which sponsor...

For Immediate Release, June 9, 2010 Contact: Allison Sturma, 202/429-4725 or asturma@usip.org (Washington) -  George Lopez, Jennings Randolph senior fellow at the United States of Peace, reacted to the United Nations passage of new sanctions against Iran: The new U.N. resolution captures the important policy subtlety that sanctions must pressure for compliance, not punish for capitulation.  It provides an effective balance between a sanctions bite that hurts and a style of imposition that ...

For Immediate Release, Contact: Lauren Sucher, 202/429-3822 or lsucher@usip.org (Washington) - In a new book from the United States Institute of Peace, “Youth and Post-Conflict Reconstruction: Agents of Change”, author Stephanie Schwartz contends that youth can and do play a dynamic and positive role in post-conflict reconstruction processes, countering popular belief and common depictions of youth as teenage terrorists, gang members and child soldiers. Using three case studies—Mozambique, ...

(Washington) – Last Thursday night, during the culminating event of a week in Washington for 49 high school students from around the country, three students were announced as the national, first and second prize winners of the National Peace Essay Contest run by the United States Institute of Peace (USIP). The top three winners, whose essays were the best of all of the state winners, are Margaret Hardy of California,  who won the top national prize of $10,000; Sara Luecke of Pennsylvania whos...

Education & Training

For Immediate Release, July 2, 2010 Contact:  Lauren Sucher, 202/429-3822                 lsucher@usip.org (Washington) – On Independence Day, United States Institute of Peace (USIP) president Richard H. Solomon will participate in a panel discussion at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival on the National Mall. Ambassador Solomon and a former staffer of Sen. Matsunaga’s, Suzanne Day, will discuss how World War II veteran, Congressman and then Senator Spark Matsunaga of Hawaii ran a commission...

For Immediate Release, July 12, 2010 Contact: Allison Sturma, asturma@usip.org   The United States Institute of Peace will launch its first in a series of programs titled "Conversations about War and Peacebuilding" on July 14th in San Francisco.  The series provides occasional dialogues about international affairs and international conflict with high-level guests who bring unique, bipartisan perspectives to the most salient issues of the day, including the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and...

Conflict Analysis & Prevention

For Immediate Release, July 8, 2010 Contact:  Lauren Sucher, 202/429-3822                 lsucher@usip.org Dr. Andrew Wilder will be joining the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) as the director of Afghanistan and Pakistan programs in September 2010. Dr. Wilder has most recently served as research director for Politics and Policy at the Feinstein International Center and as associate research professor for the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.   "The I...

For Immediate Release, July 16, 2010 Contact: Lauren Sucher, lsucher@usip.org or 202/429-3822                Allison Sturma, asturma@usip.org or 202/429-4725   (Washington/Kabul) – Afghanistan experts from the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) are available for background and comment on the Kabul conference on July 20th and reaction to any developments. USIP staff based in Kabul are available to speak about the Afghan expectations going into next week's international conference, ...