Robert I. Rotberg

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Robert I. Rotberg , Adjunct Professor of Public Policy, is Director of the Belfer Center's Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, as well as President of the World Peace Foundation and a member of the Belfer Center's board of directors.

He was Professor of Political Science and History, MIT; Academic Vice President of Tufts University; and President of Lafayette College. He was a member of the Secretary of State's Advisory Panel on Africa, 2003-2004, and was a Presidential appointee to the Council of the National Endowment for the Humanities. He is a trustee of Oberlin College and a visiting professor at the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium.

He is the author and editor of numerous books and articles on US foreign policy, Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean, most recently:

Worst of the Worst: Dealing with Repressive and Rogue Nations (2007)
A Leadership for Peace: How Edwin Ginn Tried to Change the World (2007)
Building a New Afghanistan (2007)
Governance and Leadership in Africa (2007)
Israeli And Palestinian Narratives of Conflict: History's Double Helix (2006)
Battling Terrorism in the Horn of Africa (2005)
When States Fail: Causes and Consequences (2004)
State Failure and State Weakness in a Time of Terror (2003)
Ending Autocracy, Enabling Democracy: The Tribulations of Southern Africa 1960–2000 (2002)
Peacekeeping and Peace Enforcement in Africa: Methods of Conflict Prevention (2001)
Truth v. Justice: The Morality of Truth Commissions (2000)
Creating Peace in Sri Lanka: Civil War and Reconciliation (1999)
Burma: Prospects for a Democratic Future (1998)
War and Peace in Southern Africa: Crime, Drugs, Armies, and Trade (1998)
Haiti Renewed: Political and Economic Prospects (1997)
Vigilance and Vengeance: NGOs Preventing Ethnic Conflict in Divided Societies (1996)
From Massacres to Genocide: The Media, Public Policy and Humanitarian Crises (1996)
The Founder: Cecil Rhodes and the Pursuit of Power (1988, new ed. 2002).

[edit] Index of African Governance

Under the direction of Professor Rotberg, an Index of African Governance was created in 2007. It ranks all 48 sub-Saharan African countries according to quality of governance. In conjunction, Mo Ibrahim has created the Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership. The results of the Index will help the Ibrahim Prize selection committee choose winners. The Prize will provide pensions for “honest, capable African heads of state” after they leave office.