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 China-India border dispute has cast a shadow on bilateral relations for decades. Memories of the war it provoked in 1962 continue to influence Indian strategic thinking vis-a-vis China.
Director of Afghan and Pakistani programs at the U.S. Institute of Peace Andrew Wilder said the elections are a milestone for a country with a long record of political violence. "Unfortunately, the dramatic increase this past month in electoral ...
It's all part of the dialogue — why it is really hard and why it has to succeed, otherwise, as a recent United States Institute of Peace report warned: “Yemen risks falling backward into open conflict.” The good news is that — for now — a lot of ...
... told voters not to vote, and offered dire threats if they did, we have the highest turnout in a Pakistani election since 1970,” Andrew Wilder, head of the Pakistan programme at the United States Institute of Peace, a quasi-government think tank ...
William Byrd, an Afghanistan Senior Expert at the US Institute of Peace, explained to The International that “high addiction rates in Afghanistan for opiates are a relatively recent phenomenon,” and that this widespread addiction is “a product of the ...
... at the White House where talk centered on Syria. Margaret Warner talks with Henri Barkey of Lehigh University and Steve Heydemann of the U.S. Institute for Peace about how the international community could collaborate on ending the Syrian civil war ...
U.S. Institute of Peace analyst Steve Heydemann says Damascus is rejecting talks on issues central to the conflict. "Even though they do not want to cause a rift between themselves and the Russians, they are doing everything they can to make sure that ...
And it's trying to bring around the table parties whom the United States and Russia agree have a vested interest in finding a productive way out of the nightmare that Syria is experiencing," said U.S. Institute of Peace analyst Steve Heydemann: Syrian ...
Other agencies that participated in this year's exercise include; U.S. Pacific Command, Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, Center of Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance, U.S. Department of State, U.S. Institute of Peace ...
“To give Iran a formal role in then negotiations is not likely to be productive,” Steven Heydemann, senior adviser for Middle East initiatives at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington, said in a phone interview. “We've seen other efforts ...