In a bipartisan discussion, deputy administrator of USAID and former ambassador Donald Steinberg will address the challenges the United States faces in its global peace-building operations.

Since the end of Sri Lanka's brutal twenty-six-year-old civil war in 2009, the country has largely been under the radar for Washington's policy community. This panel discussion will look at all aspects of the current situation--including geopolitics, peace building, and accountability--with a view to determining how US engagement can promote a more positive postconflict environment in Sri Lanka.

Restoring the state to health can be seen as the beginning and the end of peace-building, but that omits the important role of economic growth.

USIP has been engaged in serious and risky work, hand in hand with our military, in Iraq, Afghanistan and other trouble spots. It is engaged in mediation, nation building and other efforts to reduce conflict and save lives.

Is theattempt to prevent an Israeli embassy representative from speaking motivated by fear that students exposed to differing viewpoints might start thinking for themselves?

John R. Bolton's speech to the Maxwell School at Syracuse University.

The risks and pitfalls for the United States, and indeed for the United Nations itself, in pursuing these flawed and potentially dangerous policies have rightly attracted extensive Congressional attention during the Clinton Administration.

The future of the United Nations is under the control of the new Secretary General, Ban Ki-Moon.