Karen Colvard is the program director at the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, a private foundation which funds scholarly research on problems of violence and aggression in all disciplines which approach these concerns, from studies of single cells in an enraged brain to the entire geo-political system and everything in between. Her own special interests are in intergroup conflict, religion, globalization, and feminist issues. At the Foundation, Ms. Colvard's responsibilities include reviewing research grant applications, conducting a methods workshop and providing editorial help for the Young African Scholars program, and initiating an outreach program for young scholars from North Africa. In the past twenty years, she has also devoted some special attention to attracting proposals from African social scientists to study problems of violence on that continent. Ms. Colvard is a Fellow of Salzburg Global Seminar.