Bill Durch spoke at a joint USIP and RAND Corporation event Overcoming
Obstacles for Peace on March 18th. The event launched a new RAND book, Overcoming Obstacles to Peace, which
finds evidence that international interventions can in fact build more peaceful
nations.
Other speakers included James Dobbins (Director of the
International Security and Defense Policy Center, RAND), Laurel Miller (Senior
Political Scientist and Professor, RAND), Dr. Joe Collins (Professor, NDU), and
Paul Hughes (Senior Adviser for International Security and Peacebuilding,
USIP).