Robert I. Rotberg
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Robert I. Rotberg (born 1935) is an American professor of political science. He currently 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 BCSIA’s board of directors.
Prof. Rotberg was a Rhodes scholar in 1957. He was also 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.
[edit] Mo Ibrahim Prize
Under the direction of Prof. Rotberg, the Mo Ibrahim Index was developed, which ranks all sub-Saharan African countries according to quality of governance. The Index thus aims to promote debate not just in Africa but around the world on the criteria by which governments should be assessed.
The selection of winners of the Mo Ibrahim Prize is guided by the Ibrahim Index of Governance.
[edit] Publications
Prof. Rotberg is the author and editor of numerous books and articles on US foreign policy, Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean, most recently:
- 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).
