ImageFrederic S. Pearson, Professor of Political Science and
Director of the Center for Peace and Conflict Studies at Wayne State
University.  Dr. Pearson also directs the Detroit Council for World
Affairs and is on the boards of the Detroit Rotary Club and the Michigan
Coalition for Human Rights.  He received his Ph.D. in 1971 from the
University of Michigan and has become a recognized authority in the fields of
international military intervention, arms transfer effects on civil and
international wars, and ethnic conflict analysis.