Professor Hizkias Assefa is an Eritrean and specialist in conflict resolution and transformation, using the traditional social science model but also employing methods from psychology and theology.  He founded a conflict resolution institute in Kenya and teaches in the US. His perspective on "the war on terror":

For those with low self-esteem, an incompatible behaviour of another could be seen as immensely threatening and therefore calls for massive aggression. For others with healthy self esteem, and with a capacity to discern the impact of their behaviour on others, the same event might be viewed as less threatening and something that calls for a problem solving response. A United States under different leadership would probably have responded to the Iraq situation through international inspection instead of a declaration of war. A more enlightened American leadership would have fought the War on Terror by working to bring more justice in the globe than by unleashing more violence and state terror that risks being more of the same. It would have been, in the long run, more effective, durable and also cheaper".