David Little is the T.J. Dermot Dunphy Professor of the Practice in Religion, Ethnicity, and International Conflict at Harvard Divinity School; Director of Initiatives in Religion and Public Life, and Faculty Associate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University. He has served as the senior scholar in religion, ethics, and human rights at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C. From 1996 to 1998, he was a member of the U.S. State Department Advisory Committee on Religious Freedom Abroad. He is author with Scott W. Hibbard of Islamic Activism and U.S. Foreign Policy and author of two of the volumes in the USIP series on Religion, Nationalism, and Intolerance, and Sri Lanka: The Invention of Enmity.