Dr Charles Webel is currently professor and guarantor of the School of International Relations and Communications at the University of New York in Prague. He is also at present Fulbright Specialist in Peace and Conflict Resolution and a member of the Academic Council on the United Nations System. Dr Webel has studied, taught or lectured at Harvard, Oxford, Heidelberg, Stanford and U.C. Berkeley. He has published 10 books on peace and conflict transformation, as well as the two-volume The Fate of This World and the Future of Humanity, and several philosophical books.