Robert Karl Manoff is the co-founder and director of the NYU Center for War, Peace, and the News Media, established in 1985, and chairman of the National Press Institute of Russia, which was initiated by the Center in 1992. Prior to his NGO work, Manoff served as managing editor of Harper's Magazine and editor of the Columbia Journalism Review, among other editorial positions. He has taught at MIT, Columbia, Brown, and NYU, and has published widely on the media, international, and ethnic conflict; the media, nuclear issues, and international security, and media and politics. His articles have appeared in The New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, Harper's, the Nation, and the Journal of Communication, among many other publications. He co-edited and contributed to Reading the News (Pantheon), which was named one of the 20 outstanding books on the media during the previous decade by the Freedom Forum Media Studies Center in 1995. He is the recipient of a number of awards, including the Mellet Award, for media criticism, and the Joel Selden Award, offered for the article that best illuminates the psychological dynamics of war and peace.