Contact: Ian Larsen +1-202-429-3870 cell +1-202-657-7327 Lauren Sucher +1-202-429-3822 cell +1-202-657-7326   (Washington, Mar 23) - High-level policymakers and leading foreign policy figures from Iraq and its six neighboring countries met in Istanbul March 21-23 to identify key action points in the proposed regional Iraqi stabilization effort. The unofficial Track II ...

Contact: Ian Larsen +1-202-429-3870 cell +1-202-657-7327 Lauren Sucher +1-202-429-3822 cell +1-202-657-7326   (Washington, Mar 1) – Researchers at the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) are available to offer journalists insight and context to supplement coverage of this week’s announcement that the U.S. will participate in meetings between Iraq and its neighbors—including...

Contact: Colette Rausch +1-202-429-3860 crausch@usip.org   From February 20-24, 2007, the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) held a number of interactive discussions in Kathmandu on security and rule of law in Nepal. The series of dialogue sessions brought together members of the government, political parties, civil society, the media, and police. The aim was to identify those areas of mutual concer...

Contact: Kay Hechler +1-202-429-3816 khechler@usip.org   Buy the Book The United States Institute of Peace releases the latest volume in its ongoing series on contemporary conflict. Leashing the Dogs of War: Conflict Management in a Divided World, edited by Chester A. Crocker, Fen Osler Hampson and Pamela Aall, is a follow up to their landmark 2001 work Turbulent Peace, which has become a leading classro...

Contact: Ian Larsen, USIP +1-202-429-3870 cell: +1-703-929-2099     (Washington, Feb 2) — A book funded in part by a grant from the U.S. Institute of Peace has won the 2007 International Studies Association Best Book Award. The Marketing of Rebellion, by Clifford Bob, has also been named a Top Book of 2006 by The Globalist online magazine. The Marketing of Rebellion examines the clamorous efforts of armed and unarmed movements around the world seeking to elicit the attention of interna...

Contact: Alex Yelland, Chevron +1-925-842-0456 Ian Larsen, USIP +1-202-429-3870       SAN RAMON, Calif., January 29, 2007 - Chevron Corporation today announced a $10 million contribution for the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP), an independent, nonpartisan organization specializing in the resolution of international conflict and the promotion of peace building worldwide. The $10 million cont...

Contact: Ian Larsen 202-429-3870 cell: 703-929-2099 Lauren Sucher 202-429-3822 cell: 202-657-7326       FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 8, 2007 (Washington, Jan 8) — David Smock, vice president of the United States Institute of Peace’s (USIP) Center for Mediation and Conflict Resolution, is available to provide journalists with context and analysis of the developing ...

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