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Soft Power in a Sharp Power World - A Bipartisan Congressional Dialogue
Global adversaries, especially states like Russia, China and Iran, use sharp power tools of coercion, disinformation and proxy campaigns to achieve their geopolitical goals...

How to Rehabilitate and Reintegrate Violent Extremists
As the loss of ISIS territory drives thousands of “foreign terrorist fighters” to return home, and hundreds of people convicted of terrorism-related offenses are...

A Conversation with Secretary of Defense James N. Mattis
The 2018 National Defense Strategy asserts that the United States is emerging from a post-Cold War period of “strategic atrophy.” On October 30, 2018,...

What Really Works to Prevent Election Violence
One in five elections worldwide is marred by violence—from burned ballot boxes to violent suppression of peaceful rallies, to assassinations of candidates. A USIP...

PeaceCon 2018 - Synthesizing and Modeling the Science on Sustaining Peace
Jessica Baumgardner-Zuzik Director of Learning & Evaluation, Alliance for Peacebuilding Michael Findley Professor of Government and Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin Lise...

PeaceCon 2018 - What Do We Know About Conflict
Maciej Bartkowski PhD, John Hopkins University Sarah Mendelson Distinguished Service Professor of Public Policy and Head of Heinz College at Carnegie Mellon University Dmytro...