Ramadan Reflection: To Build Peace, We Need Muslim Women

Ramadan Reflection: To Build Peace, We Need Muslim Women

Friday, June 26, 2015

By: USIP Staff

Muslim women worldwide need to reclaim the place as leaders that the Islamic faith accorded them in its early centuries, USIP Acting Vice President Manal Omar told guests at a June 25 iftar celebration. And, she said, the world’s hope for a more just, peaceful future depends on their doing so.

Type: Analysis

GenderReligion

To Help Afghanistan Survive, Narrow the Focus

To Help Afghanistan Survive, Narrow the Focus

Friday, June 19, 2015

By: USIP Staff

Afghanistan’s Taliban are trying to defeat the government in this first year following the U.S. military’s withdrawal from combat operations, and their surge in attacks has driven the rate of army and police casualties at least 65 percent higher than last year. Still, a focused strategy can help the government survive, USIP experts say.

Type: Analysis

Violent ExtremismDemocracy & GovernanceCivilian-Military Relations

New U.N. Goals Highlight Danger of 'State Fragility' to Development

New U.N. Goals Highlight Danger of 'State Fragility' to Development

Tuesday, June 16, 2015

By: Aparna Ramanan

A new set of development goals that will be adopted by the world’s heads of state at the United Nations in September highlights the crucial problem of “fragile states” and the need to strengthen their governance, according to experts including current and former top diplomats and USIP President Nancy Lindborg.

Type: Analysis

Democracy & GovernanceFragility & ResilienceHuman Rights

Crucial U.N. Peacekeeping Is Stretched to 'Absolute Limits'

Crucial U.N. Peacekeeping Is Stretched to 'Absolute Limits'

Thursday, June 11, 2015

The alarming state of the overtaxed United Nations peacekeeping system endangers human rights, genocide prevention, development and the prospects for sustainable peace, USIP board Vice Chairman George Moose told an audience June 5 at the annual membership meeting of the United Nations Association of the National Capital Area.

Type: Analysis

Conflict Analysis & PreventionEducation & TrainingHuman RightsGlobal Policy

Iraq Needs Political Reconciliation to Defeat ISIS, Parliament Speaker Says

Iraq Needs Political Reconciliation to Defeat ISIS, Parliament Speaker Says

Wednesday, June 10, 2015

By: USIP Staff

Iraq must achieve a political reconciliation among its long-divided religious and ethnic groups as a first step toward defeating the Islamic State (ISIS) extremists who control a third of the country, Iraq’s parliament speaker said at the U.S. Institute of Peace. Reconciliation will rely heavily on building police and military forces that those disparate communities can trust, said the speaker, Saleem al-Jubouri.

Type: Analysis

Conflict Analysis & PreventionReconciliation

Burundi at the Brink

Burundi at the Brink

Friday, June 5, 2015

By: Ian Proctor

Burundi is back at the brink. Less than a decade after the end of its civil war, a political conflict over the president’s attempt to stay in office for a disputed third term risks escalating into wider violence, policy specialists say. Police are fighting protesters who say that President Pierre Nkurunziza is violating the country’s post-civil war constitution by seeking a third term. They dispute a court ruling that authorized Nkurunziza’s re-election bid.

Type: Analysis

Conflict Analysis & PreventionDemocracy & Governance