“Moving Beyond the Security Council’s Impasse to Support Afghanistan,” by Aref Dostyar, CJ Pine, and George A. Lopez, IPI Global Observatory, (25 March 2026).
“Moving Beyond the Security Council’s Impasse to Support Afghanistan,” by Aref Dostyar, CJ Pine, and George A. Lopez, IPI Global Observatory, (25 March 2026).
Journal Article — 19 September 2025
“How to Toughen Russia Sanctions,” by David Cortright, The National Interest, (19 September 2025).
“Turning Trump’s Peace Overtures into Sustainable Deals,” by Peter J. Quaranto and George A. Lopez, Just Security, (19 September 2025).
“A Framework for Proactively — and Rapidly — Lifting Sanctions on Syria,” by Alistair Millar and Stephen J. Fallon, Just Security, (5 June 2025).
“To Support Peace Efforts, the West Needs a Coordinated Way to Effectively Reduce Sanctions,” by Stephen J. Fallon and George A. Lopez, Just Security, (27 February 2025).
This study by the Fourth Freedom Forum’s 2024 Howard S. Brembeck Fellow, Amina Ahmed, emphasizes the critical role the Afghan diaspora plays in lobbying their host nations for meaningful support for Afghans in Afghanistan, refugees, and those trapped in limbo without legal status in countries like Iran, Pakistan, and Turkey. In essence, this brief serves as a call to action for the diaspora to organize and advocate effectively for their fellow Afghans.
Report — December 2023
This report is a project of the New Paradigm Project, which is made possible with support from the Fourth Freedom Forum, the Colombe Foundation, the Jubitz Foundation, the Chino Cienega Foundation, Cynda Collins Arsenault, Rockefeller Family Associates, and the Samuel Rubin Foundation. The New Paradigm project assesses the costs and consequences of overly militarized U.S. policies that led to failure in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other countries, and diverted trillions of dollars from needed investment at home. The project examines the advantages of cooperative multilateral approaches to international security based on principles of human rights and military restraint. The project produces analyses and policy proposals for greater reliance on diplomacy, peacebuilding, development, economic statecraft, and participatory governance as means of preventing armed conflict and violent extremism.
“Delays, half-measures and bad enforcement are hurting Ukraine’s cause,” by Anna Romandash and David Cortright, Eurativ, (2 November 2023).
Noor Ghazi, an Iraqi-American activist, tells Anna Romandash about her journey to peacebuilding, her work with US and Iraqi students and peace activists, and how she supports youth in her home country recover from war trauma. Published in Peace Insight.
“Noor Ghazi: Helping bring peace to her fellow Iraqis,” in Peace Insight, 6 June 2023.
Published in Manara Magazine, Fourth Freedom Forum Brembeck Fellow Anna Romandash interviews Yanar Mohammed, a well-known Iraqi feminist, for her perspective on Iraq twenty years after the US-led war as it still struggles with the consequences of the war.
“Women’s Freedom in Iraq: A Conversation With Yanar Mohammed,” in Manara Magazine, 4 May 2023.
Webinar — 8 March 2023
Presented by the Keough School of Global Affairs and its Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and Pulte Institute for Global Development and by Alliance for Peacebuilding, Fourth Freedom Forum, the Costs of War Project, Win Without War, MADRE, the International Civil Society Action Center Network (ICAN), and Our Secure Future.
This report is a project of the New Paradigm Project, which is made possible with support from the Fourth Freedom Forum, Cynda Arsenault, the Chino Cienega Foundation, the Colombe Foundation, the Jubitz Foundation, and the Samuel Rubin Foundation. The New Paradigm project assesses the costs and consequences of overly militarized U.S. policies that led to failure in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other countries, and diverted trillions of dollars from needed investment at home. The project examines the advantages of cooperative multilateral approaches to international security based on principles of human rights and military restraint. The project produces analyses and policy proposals for greater reliance on diplomacy, peacebuilding, development, economic statecraft, and participatory governance as means of preventing armed conflict and violent extremism.
