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 U.S. Institute of Peace is training Kenyan women from 20 organizations to help fight terrorist radicalization campaigns. The program comes as Kenya struggles to halt the recruitment efforts of Islamist militant group al-Shabab. The organization Sisters Without Borders...
The Trump administration is stepping up pressure on the military-controlled junta to move quickly to a civilian-led government after the April ouster of longtime authoritarian President Omar al-Bashir, raising the prospect of sanctions if the junta fails to...
It has been nearly three months since Algerian President, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, resigned amidst massive protests. While progress has been made on several fronts, many Algerians still yearn for fundamental systemic change. What will the future of Algeria...
The U.S. and North Korea are expected to revive stalled negotiation talks after President Trump became the first sitting U.S. president to set foot in North Korea. “A lot of progress has been made. A lot of friendships have been made,” said President Trump. Trump said meeting...
A month ago Sudan’s pro-democracy movement was battered and in disarray. Protesters were in hiding after paramilitary troops rampaged through the main protest area, looting, raping and shooting dead scores of people. The internet had been shut down...
(Washington, D.C.) – For young people living in Ketchikan, AK; Greenup, KY; Ridgeland, MS; and O’Neill, NE, news of talks with North Korea, a protest movement in Hong Kong, or the overthrow of a dictator in Sudan may feel like a world away. Four high school teachers from these communities, selected to take part in a U.S. Institute of Peace program, will spend the next school year bringing critical international issues of conflict such as these to life, while also empowering their students to see peace as something practical and possible.
After nearly two decades in Afghanistan, the United States is racing to reach an agreement with the Taliban within two months but a broader peace deal for the war-ravaged country looks far more elusive. President Donald Trump, in a rare position...
N Korea threatens to develop weapons to counter, if S Korea continues to acquire advanced F35 stealth fighters from the US.
On January 29, USIP will convene top U.S. foreign policy and national security leaders for a bipartisan event to renew the U.S. commitment to the peaceful transition of power.
The Gulf Arabs recognize a strategic reality that has eluded the stove-piped US foreign and security policy bureaucracy for too long: The Horn of Africa is an integral part of the Middle East’s security landscape, and increasingly so. No country demonstrates this more clearly than...