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With Bangladesh’s parliamentary elections set for early January, the opposition’s push for the resignation of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and the installation of an interim election-time government

With Bangladesh's parliamentary elections set for early January, the opposition's push for the resignation of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and the installation of an interim election-time government has reached a crescendo - sending the ...

This special Asia Pacific Bulletin series provides a platform for leading voices from Smaller South Asian states to directly convey perspectives to US policymakers.

2023 TWAS Seed Grant for New African Principal Investigators (SG-NAPI) Application Deadline: April 20th, 2023

Join USIP as we host Josefina Klinger Zúñiga and Rizwana Hasan for a discussion on the strategies they use to take on the systems and actors who degrade and destroy the environment and how their people-centered approach helps protect the rights of individuals, communities and the environment. 

Please join USIP for a discussion on the key takeaways from FOCAC 2021, China's long-term strategy in Africa's peace and security landscape, how China's bilateral relationships in Africa affect conflict dynamics — for example, in Ethiopia, where China has played an outsized economic role — and what it all means for U.S. foreign policy. 

Join USIP on October 20, 2021, as we honor these heroic finalists and announce the recipient of the award. In addition to honoring the awardee and all the finalists, this year USIP will pay special tribute to all Afghan women.

Application Deadline: 27 July 2021 With the support of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), TWAS launches a new programme to strengthen the capacity of African countries lagging in science and technology. The new programme is aimed at young scientists who are getting established in their country or about to return home to an academic position. Under this scheme, grants are awarded to promising high-level research projects in Agriculture, Biology, Chemistry, Earth Scienc...