Stephen Eric Bronner is Board of Governors Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Rutgers University. Co-Director of the International Council for Diplomacy and Dialogue, and Affiliate Distinguished Fellow at the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights at Rutgers, he has taken part in missions of civic diplomacy in Darfur, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, and elsewhere. Professor Bronner's writings have been translated into more than a dozen languages, and he has been the recipient of many awards, including the 2011 MEPeace Prize from the Middle East Political Network based in Jerusalem.