Abdul Karim Bangura is Researcher-In-Residence of Abrahamic Connections and Islamic Peace Studies at American University's Center for Global Peace and Director of The African Institution, both in Washington, DC, USA. He holds five PhDs in Political Science, Development Economics, Linguistics, Computer Science, and Mathematics. He is the innovator of more than a dozen theories and research methodologies, author of 98 books, and editor and co-editor of eight other books. He has authored 710 scholarly articles, and has received more than 50 prestigious scholarly and community service awards.