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Lessons from the El Salvador Peace Process for Afghanistan
December 9, 2020 | Linnea Sandin, Shannon McKeown Peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban began in September, providing an opportunity for peace after 40 years of conflict. As negotiations unfold, it is important to consider countries who have overcome seemingly intractable conflicts to forge peace.

Commentary
Five Ways COVID-19 Is Changing Global Migration
March 25, 2020 | Erol Yayboke COVID-19 has caused unprecedented mobility restrictions. Whether by creating longer-term economic stress, greater inequality, more vulnerability to forced migrants, and increases in irregular migration, it could also be fundamentally changing the face of global migration.

Report
Trends in Forced Migration
November 5, 2019 | Erol Yayboke CSIS releases this backgrounder to reflect on the challenges and implications of forced migration, explore trends in this global phenomenon, and identify innovative solutions to future crises.

Report
Denial, Delay, Diversion: Tackling Access Challenges in an Evolving Humanitarian Landscape
September 18, 2019 | Jacob Kurtzer The CSIS Task Force on Humanitarian Access report explores issues of humanitarian access denial and offers concrete policy solutions toward solving access challenges in humanitarian crises.

Yemeni workers evacuate food bags as fire engulfs a rebel-held United Nations' World Food Program warehouse in 2018 | ABDO HYDER/AFP/Getty Images
Interactive report
Never More Necessary: Overcoming Humanitarian Access Challenges
September 18, 2019 | Jacob Kurtzer

This accompaniment to the CSIS Task Force on Humanitarian Access report outlines major barriers to the effective delivery of humanitarian aid and examines the need for U.S. leadership in overcoming such challenges and upholding international humanitarian law.

Report
The Higher Road: Forging a U.S. Strategy for the Global Infrastructure Challenge
April 23, 2019 | Matthew P. Goodman, Daniel F. Runde, Jonathan E. Hillman, Erol Yayboke A global infrastructure buildout is transforming the economies around the world. This report from the CSIS Global Infrastructure Task Force discusses how these trends are too powerful and potentially beneficial for the United States to stop and too consequential to ignore.

Report
CSIS Brief: The Higher Road: Forging a U.S. Strategy for the Global Infrastructure Challenge
April 23, 2019 | Matthew P. Goodman, Daniel F. Runde This accompanying brief to the CSIS report from the CSIS Global Infrastructure Task Force summarizes how the current trends in global infrastructure buildout are too powerful and potentially beneficial for the United States to stop and too consequential to ignore.

Commentary
In the U.S.-China Dinner Episode, Trump Wins by a Hair
December 3, 2018 | Scott Kennedy

The drama that is U.S.-China relations added a new episode in Buenos Aires this weekend. The outcome was in many ways anti-climactic, as the two sides reached the most limited of agreements, writes Scott Kennedy, deputy director of the CSIS Freeman Chair.

Newsletter
U.S.-India Insight: Mind the Gap
November 28, 2018 | Richard M. Rossow Reviewing the growing list of trade concerns between the U.S. and India, it feels like the relationship is spinning out of control. 

Critical Questions
Vice President Pence Goes to Asia
November 9, 2018 | Amy Searight, Matthew P. Goodman, William Alan Reinsch There are some key reasons why we think the president’s absence matters. As Woody Allen said, “80 percent of success is showing up,” and nowhere is that more true than Southeast Asia, as CSIS experts Amy Searight, Matthew Goodman, William Reinsch write in their CQ piece.

Commentary
Rethinking U.S. Strategy in the Pacific Islands
November 2, 2018

Although China is currently setting the pace of the “great game” playing out in the Indo-Pacific, it still has a long way to go before it challenges U.S. regional supremacy, as Patrick Buchan from the Alliances and American Leadership Project writes in his commentary.


Transcript
Accessing Vulnerable Children and Young People in Conflict
October 30, 2018 The CSIS Humanitarian Agenda has hosted the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Executive Director Henrietta Fore for a keynote address and armchair discussion.

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