at NSI and Fulbright Research Chair in the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University.  He is the Founding Director of Harvard Kennedy School's Program on Intrastate Conflict and President Emeritus of the World Peace Foundation. Earlier, he was professor of political science at MIT, Academic Vice President of Tufts University and President of Lafayette College.  He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.  His most recent book is Transformative Political Leadership: Making a Difference in the Developing World (Chicago U. Press, 2012). Earlier he authored or edited:  Mass Atrocity Crimes: Preventing Future Atrocities (Brookings, 2010), Corruption, Global Security, and World Order (Washington, D. C., Brookings Institution Press, 2009),China into Africa: Trade, Aid, and Influence (Washington, D. C., Brookings Institution Press, 2008),Worst of the Worst: Dealing with Repressive and Rogue Nations (Washington, D.C., Brookings Institution Press, 2007)  He published When States Fail: Causes and Consequences  (Princeton, 2004), many articles on failed and weak states, and "Failed States" in the 2012 Oxford Companion to Comparative Politics and the Oxford Companion to International Relations. Jennifer Erin Salahub Jennifer Erin Salahub leads the Institute's research on Fragile and Conflict-Affected States . She is interested in the nexus of security and development including democratic security sector reform (SSR), state fragility and the gender dimensions of conflict. Since joining NSI she has conducted research on SSR in Burundi, Haiti, Liberia and South Sudan. Her recent publications include the edited volume African Women on the Thin Blue Line: Gender-Sensitive Police Reform