Janice Gross Stein is the Harrowston Professor of Conflict Management in the Department of Political Science and the director of the Munk Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto. A University Professor, she is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and the author of more than eighty books and articles. She was awarded the Edgar Furniss Prize for outstanding contribution to the study of international security and civil-military education. She is the mother of two sons and lives in Toronto.