Liberia’s President Thanks U.S. for Helping Control Ebola Epidemic

Liberia’s President Thanks U.S. for Helping Control Ebola Epidemic

Thursday, February 26, 2015

By: USIP Staff

In August, West Africa’s outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus exploded into Liberia’s capital, filling its hospitals beyond capacity and killing many of the city’s already-too-few doctors and nurses. With her government struggling and Liberians dying in Monrovia’s streets, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf placed urgent calls to both Democratic and Republican members of Congress, “who I awakened at night,” she recalled today.  

Type: Analysis

Conflict Analysis & Prevention

Congress Can Be Bipartisan: The Case of Human Rights

Congress Can Be Bipartisan: The Case of Human Rights

Tuesday, March 20, 2018

By: USIP Staff

In an American political culture coarsened by belligerence, dozens within Congress still are shaping bipartisan foreign policies to maintain a strong U.S. defense of human rights worldwide. The ability of Congress to sustain bipartisanship on human rights issues is vital to long-term international stability and U.S. national security.

Type: Analysis

Human Rights

'U.S.-Light' in Iraq May Open Way for Russia, Iran

'U.S.-Light' in Iraq May Open Way for Russia, Iran

Tuesday, July 18, 2017

By: Fred Strasser

A failure by the international community to help rebuild Iraq will leave a vacuum that Russia, Iran or some new extremist group will seek to fill, warned the co-chairman of a working group in the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS. In a recent discussion at the U.S. Institute of Peace, Ekkehard Brose agreed with the top U.S. State Department official on Iraq, Joseph Pennington, that Iraq must ultimately solve its own problems. But at this point, it can’t, Brose said.

Type: Analysis

Democracy & GovernanceViolent ExtremismGlobal Policy

Trump & Obama Aides, Experts Weigh America’s Global Role

Trump & Obama Aides, Experts Weigh America’s Global Role

Tuesday, January 10, 2017

By: USIP Staff

Seven weeks past an election that stirred talk of U.S. isolationism, national security aides from the incoming, outgoing and previous administrations held private discussions January 9 that found a broad point of consensus: The United States must lead more, not less, in the world. The meetings, among more than 80 past, present and future officials and independent foreign policy analysts, opened a bi-partisan conference on national security issues convened by the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP)...

Type: Analysis

Conflict Analysis & PreventionViolent ExtremismJustice, Security & Rule of Law

Iraqi Foreign Minister Appeals for Post-ISIS Aid

Iraqi Foreign Minister Appeals for Post-ISIS Aid

Tuesday, July 19, 2016

By: Viola Gienger

Iraqi Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari and U.S. envoy Brett McGurk today emphasized the urgency of planning and financing Iraq’s recovery from the ISIS onslaught as areas the extremist group had controlled are recaptured more quickly than expected. The two spoke at the U.S. Institute of Peace in advance of an international conference of donors to Iraq convening in Washington tomorrow and a meeting the following day of the global coalition backing the fight.

Type: Analysis

Global PolicyViolent ExtremismReconciliation

Patronage and Peace in the Horn of Africa

Patronage and Peace in the Horn of Africa

Thursday, February 18, 2016

By: Gopal Ratnam

Peacebuilders in the Horn of Africa and across the larger Middle East are likely to get better outcomes with a greater understanding of the region’s “political marketplace,” where loyalties based on financial and economic means seem to create more stability than classic institution-building, according to Alex de Waal, executive director of the World Peace Foundation and a professor at Tufts University. But rather than succumbing to illegitimate patronage, some experts say the answer may lie i...

Type: Analysis

EnvironmentPeace ProcessesEconomics

U.N. Eyes Early Human Rights Intervention to Promote Development

U.N. Eyes Early Human Rights Intervention to Promote Development

Monday, November 9, 2015

By: Gopal Ratnam

United Nations discussions that are underway on how it can intervene to stop human rights violations within national boundaries might help prevent such tensions from exploding into the kinds of civil wars and floods of refugees that the world is experiencing today, said Jan Eliasson, the global body’s deputy secretary general, at an event organized by the U.S. Institute of Peace.

Type: Analysis

Conflict Analysis & PreventionViolent ExtremismEnvironmentGlobal PolicyHuman RightsEconomics

What it Takes: Youth Working for Peace and Equality

What it Takes: Youth Working for Peace and Equality

Friday, August 12, 2016

By: Carla Koppell ;  Alison Milofsky, Ph.D.

It was a startling discovery five years ago that prompted then 21-year-old Shubey Nantege of Uganda to found Go Girl Africa. The organization has provided financial literacy skills to 2,500 girls and young women, helping them make positive changes in their lives. Leaders like Shubey illustrate how young people are essential partners in promoting peacebuilding and gender equality, a point worth highlighting today on International Youth Day. The occasion also provides an opportunity to spotlight gaps in international assistance that can be filled to strengthen the role of young people in advancing peace and equality.

Type: Analysis

GenderYouthNonviolent Action

First Lady Rula Ghani on Afghan Women’s Consensus

First Lady Rula Ghani on Afghan Women’s Consensus

Friday, November 15, 2019

By: USIP Staff

As Afghans, the United States and the international community seek an end to the war in Afghanistan, the country’s first lady, Rula Ghani, says thousands of Afghan women nationwide have expressed a clear consensus on two points. They insist that the war needs to end, and that the peace to follow must continue to build opportunities for women. The single greatest step to advance Afghan women’s cause is education and training to build their professional capacities, Ghani told an audience at USIP.

Type: Analysis

GenderPeace Processes