I. William Zartman is director of the African Studies and Conflict Management programs at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of the Johns Hopkins University. Tessy D. Bakary is professor of political science at Laval University. A. Adu Boahen was Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Ghana Legon. Alex Gboyega is senior fellow at the Foundation for Development and Environmental Initiatives. Donald Rothchild is professor of political science at the University of California Davis. He is the coauthor of Sovereignty as Responsibility: Conflict Management in Africa (Brookings 1996) author of Racial Bargaining in Independent Kenya (Oxford University Press 1973) and coeditor of The International Spread of Ethnic Conflict: Fear Diffusion and Escalation (Princeton). Language: English