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.
In Iraq, there is a strong hope that the U.S. will mediate the crisis, said Manal Omar, associate vice president for Middle East and Africa at the United States Institute of Peace, a nonpartisan Washington policy group funded by Congress. Speaking by ...
MARIA J. STEPHAN is a Senior Policy Fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace and a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council. Follow her on Twitter @MariaJStephan. They are the authors of Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of ...
In Iraq, there is a strong hope that the US will mediate the crisis, said Manal Omar, associate vice-president for Middle East and Africa at the United States Institute of Peace, a non-partisan Washington policy group funded by Congress. Speaking by ...
The prime minister, a Shiite, has failed abysmally in creating a formula to share power with the Sunnis, the traditional political masters in Iraq," Robin Wright, a joint fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace and the Woodrow Wilson Center, non-partisan ...
Dr. Dominik Balthasar holds a Transatlantic Postdoctoral Fellowship for International Relations and Security (TAPIR, 2012-14), in the framework of which he has worked for and with Chatham House, the United States Institute of Peace, and the European ...
Robin Wright, joint fellow, the Wilson Center and the U.S. Institute of Peace: Well, that's a great challenge, because Prime Minister Maliki is now arguing that his ouster would amount to a success for ISIS, for the extremists. And that -- that ...
"When you conduct an air strike, it is very difficult to distinguish who you are hitting at the moment," Sarhang Hamasaeed, senior program officer for the Middle East and North Africa programs at the U.S. Institute of Peace, told Xinhua. Hitting the ...
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Ending conflict demands more than knowing why countries go to pieces -- it calls for knowing why they don't.
As the United States draws down its forces in Afghanistan and shifts from direct combat to the narrower mission of countering terrorism and training Afghan forces, some might think this is the time to declare “job done” and focus U.S. attention elsewhere. That would be a mistake.