The Foreign Service Journal, October 2011

40 F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L / O C T O B E R 2 0 1 1 C OVER S TORY Inspired by the leaders of his time, particularly President John F. Kennedy’s call to public service, Charles Dambach left college de- termined to change the world for the better. Starting with service as a Peace Corps Volunteer and continuing with peacemaking ef- forts in Africa, Dambach worked in some 57 countries around the globe. His efforts ranged from ending the practice of dynamite fishing in a remote Colombian village to instrumental roles in bringing an end to the Eritrean-Ethiopian War of 1998-2000 and the Second Congo War of 1998-2003, sometimes described as the deadliest conflict sinceWorld War II. Charles ‘Chic’ Dambach is currently president and CEO of the Alliance for Peacebuilding and is a former president of the National Peace Corps Association. Ten African Heroes: The Sweep of Independence in Black Africa Thomas Patrick Melady & Margaret BadumMelady, Orbis, 2011, $25, hardcover, 240 pages. The 1960s were a decade of widespread change across sub-Sa- haran Africa, as emergent inde- pendence movements swept away many of the 19th-century colonial structures that had dominated life on the continent. The Meladys’ book chronicles the lives and efforts of 10 African leaders whose widely different backgrounds, creeds and goals embodied the spirit of these movements and the ex- periences of the authors, as they navigated the turbu- lent changes under way around them. Remarkable especially for its emphasis on the role of faith in the shaping of the leaders and ideologies that breathed life into newborn nations, Ten African Heroes is a powerful account of a fascinating chapter in the evolu- tion of the modern world. PatrickMelady, who served as U.S. ambassador to Bu- rundi (1969) andUganda (1972-1973), is president emer- itus and professor emeritus of political science at Sacred Heart University. Margaret Melady is president of Melady Associates, a public affairs and educational con- sulting firm, and a former president of the AmericanUni- versity of Rome. Bin Laden: The Inside Story of the Rise and Fall of the Most Notorious Terrorist in History or Bin Laden: Behind the Mask of a Terrorist Adam Robinson, Arcade Publishing, 2011, $14.95, paperback, 320 pages. Ten years after the 9/11 attacks, Osama bin Laden is dead. But the terrorist mastermind is still an enigma in the minds of most Americans. For more than a decade the most-wanted man and our high- est-profile enemy in the world, the character and personal history of the Saudi renegade remain shrouded in hearsay, media hyperbole and his deliberately cultivated personal mythology. AdamRobinson shows readers an unfamiliar picture of bin Laden. Drawing on extensive research and confi- dential interviews with family members, he traces the ter- rorist’s his early life as a family outcast and his shockingly hedonistic youth to his eventual religious awakening, painting portrait of “a lost, sad boy who became a fear- somely dangerous man.” Adam Robinson is a writer and journalist who has worked in the Middle East for more than 10 years. He began researching this biography a year before the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Foreign Direct Investment and Development: Launching a Second Generation of Policy Research, Avoiding the Mistakes of the First, Re-evaluating Policies for Developed and Developing Countries Theodore H. Moran, Peterson Institute for International Economics, 2011, $27.95, paperback, 170 pages. Today foreign direct investment and the operations of multinational corporations are central to the world economy and more important than ever for develop- ing countries. In this important new study from the Peterson Institute, Theodore Moran examines the role OF RELATED INTEREST