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.
The results of Kenya’s presidential election are not yet in, and voting will continue in some areas on Saturday, but Raila Odinga’s decision to boycott the election leaves only one outcome possible: President Uhuru Kenyatta will have the...
Radio Pakistan reported in late November 2016 that Donald Trump was willing to play any role that Pakistan wanted in order to find solutions to its outstanding problems. These remarks were made by Trump, then president-elect, in a telephonic conversation...
A Wynnewood student is part of a team from the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma in Chickasha receiving one big honor. One of the USAO’s many charitable campaigns – the Syrian Toy Project – recently received the World Experiences Foundation’s Global Citizen Award in Nonprofits.
Mercredi, l’Institut américain pour la paix (USIP) a discuté des menaces sécuritaires au Burkina Faso, et notamment dans la ville de Saaba, dans le Sahel, et des solutions pour faire face aux violences.
The Tunisian government signaled a tough decision last week to reduce the public-sector payroll by 3,000 to lower its budget deficit. This may be a long-awaited sign that President Beji Caid Essebsi is prepared to make the economic reforms his country needs to...
The Mandela Washington Fellowship Alumni Association of Nigeria (MWFAAN) has announced the recipients of the JohnPaul Usman award for Civic Leadership issued to the Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) Network in April 2017.
Afghan people have had enough, First Lady Rula Ghani told a Washington audience on Wednesday, asserting that the people of her country seek “peace” and a “predictable” life. She said the people of her now wanted to move away from a culture of violence to a culture of peace, ruing that terrorist...
Named by my parents after Christopher Robin, I’ve been a lifelong Pooh-ologist. I memorized A. A. Milne’s “Vespers”—an enchanting little poem about his son’s bedtime prayers—as a tot decades ago. I can recite it still.
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, arrived in South Sudan this week amidst a political, security, and humanitarian catastrophe of epic proportions: A country engulfed in civil war that is hemorrhaging more refugees than any African state since...
From 6am tomorrow morning, many, but perhaps not most, Kenyans will vote in the 26 October re-run of Kenya’s presidential election. The dramas that have occurred following the landmark Supreme Court ruling annulling the August 2017 vote have been extraordinary. And the situation continues to evolve quickly.