About the Author

Thomas Homer-Dixon is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Toronto. His articles have appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post, Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, and Scientific American.

He is author of the acclaimed books The Ingenuity Gap (Knopf, 2001), which won the 2001 Canadian Governor General Award for Non-Fiction, and Environment, Scarcity, and Violence (Princeton University Press, 1999).