(Washington) -The United States Institute of Peace (USIP) announced today that Stephanie Fouch has joined the Institute as vice president for Communications and Outreach.  As a senior communications executive, Ms. Fouch has led major strategic outreach programs for many public sector and private organizations.  She will be leading USIP's teams on public affairs, publications, and communications to expand and deepen national and international audiences interested in peacebuilding and internati...

For Immediate Release, January 18, 2011 Contact: Allison Sturma                202-429-4725                asturma@usip.org (Washington) - The United States Institute of Peace (USIP) facilitated a U.S.-Turkish Working Group in Istanbul December 14-15, 2010, led by former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and Ilter Turkmen, former foreign minister of Turkey. The purpose of the initial meeting, composed of Turkish and American foreign policy figures, business leaders, media and academ...

For Immediate Release, January 18, 2011 Contact: Allison Sturma                202-429-4725                asturma@usip.org   (Washington) - The United States Institute of Peace (USIP) announced today that its initiative on gender and peacebuilding is now become a full programmatic center, naming Kathleen Kuehnast as director. Kuehnast, a socio-cultural anthropologist, joined USIP in 2008 following a 15-year career in international development and post-conflict. Her newest book, a co-edi...

Gender

For Immediate Release, January 20, 2011 Contact: Allison Sturma                 202-429-4725                 asturma@usip.org (Washington) – The U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) has released "Peace Terms: Glossary of Terms for Conflict Management and Peacebuilding," an extensive glossary that provides short definitions of a wide range of complex and often confusing terms. "Peace Terms" grew out of the development of courses for the Institute's Academy for International Conflict Management ...

Education & Training

For Immediate Release, January 19, 2011 Contact: Allison Sturma                202-429-4725                asturma@usip.org (Washington) - The United States Institute of Peace joins the nation in mourning the passing of Robert Sargent Shriver whose 1961 efforts led to the founding of the Peace Corps. “Our thoughts and prayers are with the Shriver and Kennedy families and especially with our Board member, Kerry Kennedy” said Richard H. Solomon, president of USIP. The Institute will be co...

For Immediate Release, January 19, 2011 Contact: Allison Sturma                202-429-4725                asturma@usip.org (Washington) - Building upon decades of work on security sector governance (SSG) around the world, the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) is creating a full programmatic Center that helps global organizations working to protect the state and its citizens from threats to their security. The Security Sector Governance Center will focus on helping to build professi...

For Immediate Release, January 24, 2011 Contact: Allison Sturma                 202-429-4725                 asturma@usip.org

For Immediate Release, February 14, 2011 Contact: Allison Sturma asturma@usip.org 202.429.4725 (Washington, February, 14) - The United States Institute of Peace is pleased to announce that Wayne Valis, President & Founder of Valis Associates, LLC, a public policy consulting firm, has joined the USIP International Advisory Council. Formerly, Mr. Valis served as Special Assistant to President Ronald Reagan, advisor to Presidents Nixon and Ford, analyst at the American Enterprise Institute...