Waskar Ari has a PhD in History from Georgetown University in Washington, DC. His interests center on the changing attitudes of ordinary Latin Americans in the age of sectionalism, segregation, integration, war and revolutions. He has published several articles and books in Bolivia, including Historia de Una Esperanza (1994), a book on economic change and the making of new tradition. At the present, Dr. Ari is writing two different books "From the Law of Indies to Indian Law: Deconstructing Peasant Insurgency in Modern Bolivia, 1921-1967," and "Similarities and differences: The making of identity along Bolivian, Peruvian and Chilean borders, 1871-1977."