Jim Della-Giacoma is a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University’s College of Asia and the Pacific, School of International, Political, and Strategic Studies in the Department of Political and Social Change. He previously worked as the Asia Program and South East Asia Project Director of the International Crisis Group as well as an Associate Director at the Conflict Prevention and Peace Forum at the Social Science Research Council in New York. He has been living in or working on Asia since 1991 as a student, journalist, researcher, UN official, and development specialist.