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Does the U.S. Strategy for Central Asia Address the Region’s Current Problems?
In February 2020, the State Department published a public version of the U.S strategy for Central Asia, which placed particular emphasis on supporting Afghanistan...
PeaceCon@10: Closing Keynote - Hope Springs Eternal
PeaceCon@10: COVID, Climate, and Conflict: Rising to the Challenges of a Disrupted World, explored how the peacebuilding field can address these pressing short and...
PeaceCon@10: Rising to the Challenge of Climate Change
On January 26, USIP and the Alliance for Peacebuilding hosted a plenary panel discussion to address the relationship among climate change, conflict and fragility,...
Resolving the Legacies of Agent Orange
The United States sprayed Agent Orange and related herbicides on 10,160 square miles of South Vietnam from 1961-1971, exposing millions of Vietnamese citizens and...
30 Years Later: El Salvador’s Peace Accords
This January marks the 30th anniversary of El Salvador’s peace accords between the government and left-wing guerrillas, which ended a decade-long civil war that...
Peace and Security Issues at the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation
Chinese and African political leaders met last year in Senegal for the eighth ministerial meeting of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC). On January...