Timothy D. Sisk is Associate Dean and Associate Professor at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver, and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development and International Peace, a research and policy institute at the School. Sisk serves as an Associate Fellow of the Geneva Centre for Security Policy in Geneva, Switzerland. His recent research focuses on the nexus between democracy and governance and the management of conflict in deeply divided societies, especially those emerging from civil war. He is presently involved in a major research project for the United Nations Development Program on statebuilding in war-torn countries. Sisk's latest scholarly book is entitled International Mediation in Civil Wars: Bargaining with Bullets (Routledge 2009). He is also co-editor of From War to Democracy: Dilemmas of Peacebuilding (with Anna Jarstad, Cambridge University Press, 2008) and The Dilemmas of Statebuilding: Confronting the Contradictions of Postwar Peace Operations (with Roland Paris, Routledge, 2009). Prior to joining the University of Denver in 1998, Sisk was a Program Officer in the Grant Program of the United States Institute of Peace in Washington and, prior to that, a staff member for a United States Senator. Sisk earned a Ph.D. "with distinction" in political science (comparative politics, research methods) from The George Washington University in 1992 and an MA in International Journalism (1984) and a BA in Foreign Service and German (1982) from Baylor University.