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From Quick Wins to Long-Term Profits? Developing better approaches to support security and justice engagements in fragile states: Burundi case study

From Quick Wins to Long-Term Profits? Developing better approaches to support security and justice engagements in fragile states: Burundi case study

by Nicole Ball, Jean-Marie Gasana, Willy Nindorera

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 »

Illicit Financial Flows from Developing Countries: 2000-2009

Illicit Financial Flows from Developing Countries: 2000-2009

by Karly Curcio, Dev Kar

Jan-18-2011 | Report

Updating its 2008 report, GFI has expanded the range of years analyzed, updated existing figures based on new data, and included a focus on Asia.... Read More »

Security and Justice Sector Reform Programming in Africa

by Nicole Ball, Piet Biesheuvel, Tom Hamilton-Baillie, ‘Funmi Olonisakin

Apr-01-2007 | Report

Security and Justice Sector Reform (SJSR) has assumed an increasingly prominent role on the international policy agenda since the end of the 1990s.... Read More »

Convergent Interests: U.S. energy security and the

Convergent Interests: U.S. energy security and the "securing" of Nigerian democracy

by Paul Lubeck, Michael Watts, Ronnie Lipschutz

Feb-05-2007 | Report

In its anxious search for energy security, the United States has embarked on a risky strategy to arm and train the militaries of oil-producing West African countries under the rationale of pursuing the Global War on Terror. Over the past 15 years, amidst widening crises in the Middle East and volatile petroleum markets, the U.S. has quietly institutionalized a West African-based oil supply strategy, closely focused on an “Oil Triangle” centered on the Gulf of Guinea. ... Read More »

Security Sector Governance in Africa: A Handbook

by Nicole Ball

Jan-01-2004 | Book

This handbook begins from the premise that people and states must be secure from the fear of violence at the local, national, regional and international levels if an enabling environment for sustainable political and economic development is to be created. ... Read More »

Managing Conflict: Lessons from the South African Peace Committees

by Nicole Ball, Chris Spies

Nov-01-1998 | Report

In 1948, South Africa instituted a system of racial separation known as apartheid. Apartheid legalized social, economic, and political discrimination favoring the white minority. It governed the allocation of jobs; limited the access of nonwhites to social services such as health, education, and housing; and severely restricted ownership of land.... Read More »