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Experts from the U.S. Institute of Peace provide the latest analysis and perspective on the world’s critical hot spots, U.S. and global security and issues involved in violent conflict, based on the Institute’s work on the ground and with key individuals, governments and organizations. They give interviews and background briefings to journalists and write for news outlets around the world.
Analyst: Iran, Russia Support May Strengthen Taliban’s Bargaining Power in Peace Talks - Breitbart
Russian and Iranian military aid to the Taliban is granting the jihadist group the option to delay or move ahead with any peace negotiations and ultimately gain more influence under a potential power-sharing arrangement with Kabul, indicated an analyst on Thursday. During a panel discussion hosted by the U.S. Institute of Peace, Javid Ahmad...
People Power Movements and International Human Rights: ICNC Monograph Launch - Atlantic Council
On January 25, 2018, Dr. Mathew Burrows, director of the Foresight, Strategy, and Risks Initiative in the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, welcomed the International Center for Nonviolent Conflict (ICNC) for the launch of their latest monograph “People Power...
Pakistan-US Have ‘Irreconcilable’ Differences But Both Need Each Other: Experts - Associated Press of Pakistan
:Relations between Pakistan and the United States are marked by “irreconcilable” differences but both countries need each other and want to keep channels open to cooperate on tactical matters and ensure linkages, a Washington Post report said quoting foreign policy experts. Ties between the two countries...
After ISIS - Foreign Policy
With the Islamic State defeated in Iraq, policymakers in Washington have shifted gears to focus on rebuilding communities displaced by the conflict. Yet there are already conflicts in the administration about how best to channel humanitarian and development assistance.
Despite Trump’s punitive military aid cut, Pakistan and U.S. are still intertwined - Washington Post
After President Trump bluntly accused Pakistan of "lies and deceit" on New Year's Day, then suspended all security aid to the longtime U.S. military ally, Pakistan was widely described as acting like a jilted lover — secretly stricken but publicly defiant and pretending not to care.
New Daedalus Issue on Ending Civil Wars: Constraints and Possibilities - New Kerela
It is simple to hope for an end to the world's civil wars-nearly thirty of which are underway right now-but it is not at all simple to bring these conflicts to an end when the causes are wide-ranging, the effects are extensive, the international response is uncertain, and the solutions are elusive.
Reframing the Crisis in Myanmar’s Rakhine State - ReliefWeb
In the aftermath of attacks by the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army and subsequent military clearance operations, two competing narratives have emerged. One frames the attacks as a critical threat to national security and the majority cultural-religious status quo. The second focuses...
Refugees need to feel safe enough to return: UN - Daily Star
The United Nations has reiterated its call for voluntary repatriation of Rohingyas from Bangladesh saying Rohingyas need to feel that the situation is safe enough for them. “It is up for people to choose to go home. No one should choose for them. Any repatriation of Rohingyas back to Myanmar needs to be voluntary,” said Spokesman for the UN Secretary-General Stephane Dujarric in regular briefing at the UN headquarters.
Why the Palestinians Are Boycotting the Trump Administration - New Yorker
Husam Zomlot is the Palestinian front man in Washington. Born in a Gaza refugee camp, he has a doctorate in economics from the University of London and was a research fellow at Harvard’s Belfer Center. Now in his mid-forties, he represents a new generation of Palestinian politicians. Last spring, he arrived in the United States on a wave of optimism that President Trump would reinvigorate peace negotiations
Liberia’s Next Fight? - New York Times
Liberians recently propelled George Weah, a former soccer star, to the presidency, but as he is sworn in on Monday to replace Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, he will inherit the problem that stymied her progress against corruption: a political system based on coercion and bribery.