Lakhdar Brahimi has spent 40 years helping to keep the peace across the world. Now at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, he lectures regularly in the US, Europe, Africa and the Arab world on international relations, conflict and conflict resolution.
Born in Algeria in 1934, he began his peace-keeping career as a student when he joined his country’s liberation struggle, and for five years he represented the National Liberation Front in Indonesia. Following independence, he served his country as an ambassador, first to Egypt and then to the United Kingdom. More