Barbara Walter

Barbara F. Walter is a leading authority on civil wars, political violence, and democratic decline. She is the author of the New York Times bestseller How Civil Wars Start and has advised the U.S. Departments of Defense, State, CIA, and other institutions on global instability. Barbara is the Rohr Professor of International Affairs at UC San Diego and a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Council on Foreign Relations. Her work appears regularly in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Foreign Affairs. She was named Peacemaker of the Year in 2022, and her 2023 TED Talk on the warning signs of civil war has been viewed more than three million times.