For Immediate Release, October 18, 2010 Contact: Allison Sturma, 202/429-4725    Meg Pierannunzi, 202/429-4736

For Immediate Release, October 19, 2010 Contact: Allison Sturma, 202/429-4725 (Washington) – USIP Senior Rule of Law Adviser Scott Worden is available to comment on Afghanistan governance and the recent parliamentary elections. Worden was in Afghanistan for the 2010 parliamentary elections as a member of the National Democratic Institute's Observer Mission. He was one of three U.N.-appointed international members of the 2009 Electoral Complaints Commission in Afghanistan. Looking at rece...

For Immediate Release, October 27, 2010 Contact: Allison Sturma, 202/429-4725 or asturma@usip.org          

For Immediate Release, Contact: Meg Pierannunzi, 202-429-4736                Allison Sturma, 202-429-4725 (Washington) – The United States Institute of Peace Press announces the publication of "The Go-Between: Jan Eliasson and the Styles of Mediation," a new book exploring international mediation through the lens of Ambassador Jan Eliasson, an international mediator with a remarkable track record. Authors Isak Svensson and Peter Wallensteen contend that international mediators’ style...

Mediation, Negotiation & Dialogue

Contact: Allison Sturma, 202/429-4725 (Washington)– The U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) and the Stimson Center announce the publication of "Engagement, Coercion, and Iran’s Nuclear Challenge." This report is the culmination of recommendations from a distinguished group of more than 40 scholars and policy analysts, who met regularly during the past year to evaluate how the US should proceed in its strategy with the Islamic Republic of Iran. This report comes at a crucial time, as the U.S. fac...

For Immediate Release, November 29, 2010 Contact: Allison Sturma, 202/429-4725   (Washington) - Experts from the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) have been closely following the Haitian presidential and legislative elections that took place yesterday in Haiti - the first time since the January earthquake that Haitians have gone to the polls. Robert Maguire, chairman of USIP's Haiti Working Group, reflected that there was much at stake in these elections: "This presidential election was u...

For Immediate Release, November 30, 2010 Contact:  Allison Sturma, 202/429-4725 (Washington) - The United States Institute of Peace (USIP) joins the nation in mourning the passing of Congressman Stephen J. Solarz who served on USIP’s Senior Working Group on Middle East Peace. "Stephen was a man of enormous energy and the Institute was fortunate that he shared that intellectual energy with us," said USIP President Richard H. Solomon. The Institute extends its condolences to the Solarz fam...

Contact: Allison Sturma, 202/429-4725 (Washington) – On Thursday, December 16, the morning after the State Department will release its Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review (QDDR), Director of Policy Planning for the Department of State Anne-Marie Slaughter and USAID Deputy Administrator Donald Steinberg will speak about the report in a public forum at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP). According to a State Department fact sheet, the QDDR “will provide the short-, medium-, ...