I William Zartman is the Jacob Blaustein Professor Emeritus at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at the John Hopkins University, and member of the Processes of International Negotiation (PIN) Program at Clingendael. His doctorate is from Yale (1956) and his honorary doctorate from Louvain (1997). His books include Negotiation and Conflict Management (Routlege - 2008), and Understanding Life in the Borderlands: boundaries in depth and motion (ed.) (University of Georgia Press 2010). He is president of the Tangier American Legation Institute for Moroccan Studies (TALIM), and was founding president of the American Institute for Maghreb Studies and past President of the Middle East Studies Association.

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Accord Issue 22: Cross-border peacebuilding

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