Nicole Ball
senior fellow
Phone: (202) 232-3317
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Along with her position with CIP, Ball is also a senior visiting senior research fellow at the Netherlands Institute of International Relations ('Clingendael Institute') in The Hague. Ball has previously held positions at the Overseas Development Council, the National Security Archive in Washington, DC, the Swedish Institute for International Affairs in Stockholm and the University of Sussex in the UK. She has conducted research on a broad range of issues relating to security and development, including the economics of security; democratic governance of the security sector; disarmament, demobilization and reintegration of former combatants; the international development community's role in assisting countries to recover from violent conflict and reform their security sectors. Her current work is focused on strengthening democratic security sector governance and on assessing the impact of funding mechanisms in fragile and conflict-affected states.
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Publications
by Nicole Ball
Mar-29-2012 | Report
Nicole Ball, Jean-Marie Gasana, and Willy Nindorera explore security and justice programming in Burundi in order to develop better approaches to solving four key challenges... Read More »
by Nicole Ball
Nov-08-2010 | Report
In recent years, the international aid community has committed itself to international initiatives and agreements that underline the importance of harmonising aid activities – the so-called aid effectiveness agenda.... Read More »
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In the Press
Nicole Ball
Feb-04-2011 | Interviews
From Afghanistan and Iraq to Southern Sudan and Timor-Leste, security sector reform (SSR) is widely ... Read More »
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