Robert I. Rotberg is the Founding Director of Harvard Kennedy School Program on Intrastate Conflict, USA. He is also President Emeritus of the World Peace Foundation and a Fulbright Distinguished Professor of International Relations at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. He is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. His most recent book is The Corruption Cure: How Leaders and Citizens Can Combat Graft (2017).

David Carment is a professor of International Affairs at Carleton University, Canada. He is also editor of Canadian Foreign Policy Journal. He teaches conflict mediation, bargaining and negotiation, and Canadian foreign policy. His most recent books examine diaspora cooperation, state fragility and ethnic conflict.