On May 21, 2007, a day regarded as Circassian Memorial Day by the Circassian Diaspora, the Jamestown Foundation hosted a one day conference entitled: The Circassians: Past, Present, and Future.  Participating in that event were some of the world's leading experts on the North Caucasus... MORE

Yesterday, April 8, the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation declared The Jamestown Foundation an “undesirable” organization, ostensibly in response to a series of articles published by Jamestown regarding nationalities trends in the Northwest Caucasus. The Russian authorities claim that Jamestown’s reporting and analysis... MORE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: The kidnapping of 276 schoolgirls from the village of Chibok, Nigeria, in 2014 drew the world's attention to the previously little-known extremist group Boko Haram. Numerous questions followed, among them: Where did Boko Haram come from? What explains the rise of this... MORE

The Jamestown Foundation is proud to announce the addition of retired U.S. Air Force Brigadier General Robert Spalding to its Board of Directors. Jamestown President Glen Howard stated: "The addition of retired General Spalding to the Jamestown board will benefit the foundation immensely and allow us to... MORE

On July 16, The Jamestown Foundation's China Brief published an article by Russell Hsiao titled "A Preliminary Survey of CCP Influence Operations in Singapore." The piece has already been viewed over 10,300 times, making it one of the most read in the history of the publication. Within days, Hsiao's analysis... MORE

On November 4–6, Jamestown Foundation President Glen Howard led a delegation to the Republic of Belarus on a fact-finding visit to meet with President Alyaksandr Lukashenka and other civilian and military officials. The delegation included: Dr. Michael Carpenter, recently the US Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense... MORE

In June, the Jamestown Foundation hosted a workshop of four experts led by Senior Fellow Michael W.S. Ryan to provide a starting point for an informed discussion concerning how the United States and its partners could defeat the ISIS group’s and al-Qaeda’s ideology. Hassan Hassan... MORE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   Contact: Matthew Czekaj  [email protected] 202.483.8888   The Jamestown Foundation recently led an eight-member board delegation to Turkey, Azerbaijan and Georgia. Led by Ambassador Matthew Bryza, a Jamestown board member and former deputy assistant secretary of state for Europe and Eurasia, the delegation... MORE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  Contact: Matthew Czekaj [email protected] 202.483.8888   On Monday, January 29, The Jamestown Foundation hosted the third and final workshop connected to the Russia in the Middle East special project, led jointly by the two Project Investigators—Dr. Theodore Karasik and Dr. Stephen Blank.... MORE