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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.
Despite Skepticism Over India-Pakistan Relations, Trade Provides Hope - Voice of America
“The two countries are [not] talking, the diplomatic talks have crashed,” said Raza Ahmad Rumi, a senior expert at the Washington-based United States Institute of Peace. A decision last week to suspend a bus service across the disputed region of ...
The Other Powerful Threat to Iraq's Future - Wall Street Journal (blog)
“With the government responding to those they deem terrorists with arbitrary arrests and executions, residents have nowhere to turn for protection.” Robin Wright is a joint fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace and the Woodrow Wilson International ...
ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN OR ISLAMIC STATE: WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE? - Newsweek
Despite international sanctions and frequent diplomatic showdowns over the years, Western nations no longer consider supporting regime change in Tehran.
A 'Drastic' Decline in Media Freedom - Wall Street Journal (blog)
Finland scored highest, followed by Norway and Denmark. Perpetually near the bottom are North Korea, China, Turkmenistan, Syria, and, at the very end, Eritrea. Robin Wright is a joint fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace and the Woodrow Wilson ...
Pakistan's future — fraught with perilous possibilities - The Express Tribune
The writer is affiliated with Express TV and is an editor at The Friday Times. Currently, he is a senior fellow at the United States Institute of Peace. Views expressed here are his own. Nearly two months after the Peshawar attack, it is unclear if ...
Ukraine military aid alone not enough: Column - USA TODAY
William Taylor is acting executive vice president of the U.S. Institute of Peace and former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine. Kristin Lord is president and CEO of the international education and development non-profit, IREX. In addition to its own editorials ...
A look into the Colombian peace process with Virginia Bouvier - CCTV-America
It's been more than two years since the Colombian government and the FARC guerrilla members made public their negotiations to end half a century of conflict. The guerilla group, the oldest in the world, sent a team of representatives to Havana, where ...
Democratic But Deadly - Foreign Policy (blog)
But field research by the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) shows that Kenyans experienced the election differently than those heralding the vote's calm suggest. While the mass violence of 2007 did not recur in 2013, a “suppressed war” or “negative peace ...
Why many Afghans distrust their judicial system - Deutsche Welle
In a DW interview, Belquis Ahmadi, an expert on rule of law in Afghanistan at USIP, explains that while corruption and bureaucratic red tape play a role in the Afghans' limited trust in the judiciary, this is not the main reason why some are opting for ...