Alcinda Honwana is visiting professor of anthropology and international development at the Open University, UK. She was chair in international development at the Open University and taught anthropology at the University Eduardo Mondlane in Maputo, the University of Cape Town in South Africa, and the New School for Social Research in New York. She was also programme director at the Social Science Research Council in New York, and worked for the United Nations Office for Children and Armed Conflict. Dr. Honwana has written extensively on the links between political conflict and culture and on the impact of violent conflict on children and youth, conducting research in Mozambique, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola, Colombia and Sri Lanka. Her latest work has been on youth and social change in Africa, focusing on Mozambique, Senegal, South Africa and Tunisia. Dr. Honwana's latest books include Youth and Revolution in Tunisia; The Time of Youth: Work, Social Change, and Politics in Africa; and Child Soldiers in Africa; and Makers and Breakers: Children and Youth in Postcolonial Africa. Dr. Honwana holds a B.A. in history and geography from the University Eduardo Mondlane in Maputo, Mozambique, a Maitrise in sociology from l'Universite de Paris 8 in France, and another M.A. and a Ph.D. in social anthropology from the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London.