Nancy Lindborg on Negotiations with North Korea

Nancy Lindborg on Negotiations with North Korea

Wednesday, October 18, 2017

By: Nancy Lindborg

USIP President Nancy Lindborg tells us about the challenges presented by North Korea’s nuclear capabilities, and discusses her own experiences travelling to North Korea.

Type: Podcast

Nancy Lindborg Discusses the Rohingya Crisis in Burma

Nancy Lindborg Discusses the Rohingya Crisis in Burma

Wednesday, November 22, 2017

By: Nancy Lindborg

Having just returned from Burma talks about the USIP delegation she led to Burma, and the complexities facing the country. What can we expect from a nation contending with 22 ethnic armed gr...

Type: Podcast

Nancy Lindborg on Nigeria's Central Role in Africa

Nancy Lindborg on Nigeria's Central Role in Africa

Wednesday, May 2, 2018

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Fresh from her USIP delegation trip to Nigeria, Nancy Lindborg explains Nigeria’s importance to Africa and the United States. Lindborg discusses the critical on-the-ground work happening to prevent violence and underscores the importance of Nigerian governors to countering Boko Haram.

Type: Podcast

Peace Processes

To Stabilize Iraq After ISIS, Help Iraqis Reconcile

To Stabilize Iraq After ISIS, Help Iraqis Reconcile

Sunday, February 11, 2018

By: USIP Staff;  Nancy Lindborg;  Sarhang Hamasaeed

An international conference opens in Kuwait Monday to plan ways to rebuild Iraq and secure it against renewed extremist violence following the three-year war against ISIS. A USIP team just spent nine days in Iraq for talks with government and civil society leaders, part of the Institute’s years-long effort to help the country stabilize. The Kuwait conference will gather government, business and civil society leaders to consider a reconstruction that Iraq has said could cost $100 billion. USIP’s president, Nancy Lindborg, and Middle East program director, Sarhang Hamasaeed, say any realistic rebuilding plan must focus also on the divisions and grievances in Iraq that led to ISIS’ violence and that still exist.

Type: Analysis

Conflict Analysis & PreventionViolent Extremism

A Rising Challenge: the World’s 'Fragile' States

A Rising Challenge: the World’s 'Fragile' States

Friday, April 24, 2015

By: USIP Staff

America’s foreign interests, including its security, increasingly are challenged by the world’s “fragile” states—those in which “governments are weak, ineffective or disconnected from their people,” according to Nancy Lindborg, president of the U.S. Institute of Peace. Across the world, it is in such fragile states that poverty and violent conflict are becoming concentrated, Lindborg said in speeches this month in Texas.

Type: Analysis

Conflict Analysis & PreventionFragility & Resilience

Q&A: Will U.S. Strikes on Syria Change Conflict’s Course?

Q&A: Will U.S. Strikes on Syria Change Conflict’s Course?

Friday, April 7, 2017

By: Dr. Elie Abouaoun ;  USIP Staff

The United States launched its first air strikes against forces backing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad since the country’s civil war began six years ago, in retaliation for a chemical-weapons attack that killed more than 80 civilian men, women and children. Elie Abouaoun, who is director of Middle East and North Africa programs at the U.S. Institute of Peace and is based in the region, examines the strategic implications, and USIP President Nancy Lindborg, who has worked for nearly 30 years on humanitarian crises and areas affected by conflict, comments on the factors that prompted the U.S. attack.

Type: Analysis

Conflict Analysis & PreventionViolent ExtremismGlobal Policy

Brussels Attacks Highlight Connection to Regional Arcs of Crisis

Brussels Attacks Highlight Connection to Regional Arcs of Crisis

Tuesday, March 29, 2016

By: Nancy Lindborg

My sympathy goes out to the survivors and families of those who died in the terrible attacks in a string of bombings over this last week -- from Brussels to Baghdad to Lahore. I was in Brussels on a business trip and was preparing to leave my hotel to catch a flight back to Washington when we got word of the explosions at the airport and the metro station there. The terror that was palpable last week in Brussels is sadly all too common in those five countries that top the list for violent extremist incidents and fatalities: Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Nigeria and Syria. And, we are increasingly seeing the outward ripples.

Type: Analysis

Violent ExtremismFragility & Resilience