About the Authors
I. William Zartman is the Jacob Blaustein Distinguished Professor Emeritus of International Organization and Conflict Resolution at the Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of the Johns Hopkins University in Washington, D.C., and a member of the Steering Committee of the Processes of International Negotiation Program (PIN).
Alvaro de Soto is a senior fellow at the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies at the City University of New York Graduate Center, an associate fellow of the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, and a member of the Global Leadership Foundation in London. An ambassador in the Peruvian diplomatic service, he has held senior positions under three secretaries-general at United Nations headquarters in New York and in the field.