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Vincent T. Maphai

Vincent T. Maphai, executive director of the program on social dynamics at the Human Sciences Research Council of South Africa, was a visiting fellow in 1995 at the Center for International Security and Arms Control (CISAC), Stanford University. This essay is part of a larger research project funded jointly by CISAC and the Research and Writing Program of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.