One of Time’s 2010 40 under 40 political leaders in America, Kleinfeld served under Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on the State Department's Foreign Affairs Policy Board and is now a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment. For this analysis of how nations recover from rampant violence, she traveled extensively, and her first-hand field research includes interviews with generals, former guerrillas, activists, politicians, mobsters, and law enforcement officials in countries around the world. Her evidence shows that there are clear measures even the most embattled societies can take to empower the strong civic movements, institutions, and governments that will keep them from falling into chaos.