Author: Sovaida Ma ani Ewing

Sovaida Ma”ani Ewing writes and lectures in the area of global governance and international security. Prior to her current work as founding director of the Center for Peace and Global Governance, Ms. Ma”ani Ewing served as an Attorney-Advisor in the Legal Advisor”s Office of the U.S. State Department. Born in East Africa and raised there and in the Middle East, she has also lived in the United Kingdom, where she earned an LLM in Interna-tional Law and European Union law at Cambridge Uni-versity and qualified as a barrister-at-law of England and Wales. She subsequently moved to the United States and qualified as an attorney-at-law there, practiced law at re-spected law firms in Washington, D.C., including her own, and taught as an adjunct professor of law at George Washington University”s law school. Ms. Ma”ani Ewing has written several books, including Collective Security Within Reach (2008). She maintains a blog about solutions to current global issues at http://collectivesecurity.blogspot.com.