Robert Rotberg is the Director of the Belfer Center’s Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, and also President of the World Peace foundation. He was Professor of Political Science and History at MIT; Academic Vice President at Tufts; President of Lafayette College; and a member of the Secretary of State’s Advisory Panel on Africa, 2003-04. He is the author and editor of numerous books and articles on US foreign policy, Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean, most recently Crafting the New Nigeria: Confronting the Challenges (2004), and When States Fail: Causes and Consequences (2004).