Note on Editors, Authors and Contributors
Nicole Ball is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for International
Policy in Washington, D.C., USA. Ms. Ball is also a Visiting Professor at
the University of Maryland, College Park, United States. Nicole Ball is
one of the most quoted authorities on the management of the security sector
world wide and has worked extensively as a consultant to the World Bank,
United Nations Development Programme, OECD-DAC and United States Agency
for International Development as well as to the governments of United Kingdom,
the Netherlands, and Sweden. She has written over 100 academic books, monographs,
journal articles and policy briefs on security and economy, and serves on
the editorial advisory board of several journals on the security sector.Â
?Kayode Fayemi is Director of the Centre for Democracy
& Development and Scholar?in ?residence in the Program of African
Studies at Northwestern University, USA. Dr Fayemi is one of the pioneers
of security sector governance discourse in Africa and has been in the leadership
of Global Network on Security Sector Reform since its establishment in 2002.
He is also an adviser to the Executive Secretary of the Economic Community
Of West African States and has worked as a consultant to the Department
For International Development-UK, OECD-DAC, and United Nations Development
Programme on security and governance issues. He is Editor-in-Chief of
Democracy & Development: Journal of West African Affairs, on the
Editorial Board of the Journal of Security Sector Management and
on the adjunct faculty of the African Centre for Strategic Studies of the
National Defense University, USA. He has written extensively on security
sector issues in transition and post-conflict states.Â
?Funmi Olonisakin is the Director of the Conflict, Security
and Development Group at the International Policy Institute, King?s College,
London. Prior to her current position, Dr Olonisakin was an adviser in the
Office of the UN? Secretary General?s Special Representative on Children
affected by Armed Conflict, United Nations in New York. She has written
on regionalism, peace support operations, security sector reform in Africa.Â
Rocklyn Williams is a former Commander of the African National
Congress (ANC) guerilla unit, Umkhoto We Sizwe(M.K). He holds a
Ph.D from the University of Essex in England. He was until recently the
Director of Policy at the South African Department of Defence and subsequently
the Head of African Defence Sector Programme at the Institute of Security
Studies in Pretoria, South Africa. Col. (Dr.) Williams has written and lectured
extensively on the security sector in Africa. He has also consulted for
the African Union, OECD, SADC, Department For International Development,
and numerous institutions on security sector transformation. He is on the
Advisory Board of the GFN-SSR and on the Editorial Board of the Journal
of Security Sector Management.
Mark Shaw works for the United Nations Office of Drugs
and Crime in Vienna, Austria. Mr. Shaw was formerly a Senior Researcher
at the South African Institute for International Affairs at the University
of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. He has published extensively
on managing police reform within broader security sector reform agenda.Â
Ntsiki Motumi is a serving officer in the South African National Defence
Force. A former officer of the Umkhonto we Sizwe ? the guerilla army of
the African National Congress, Brig-General Motumi heads the Social Welfare
Department of the SANDFÂ
Janine Rausch is a Senior Researcher based at the Centre
for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Reputed for extensive work on policing and criminal justice system in Southern
Africa, she has written and consulted widely on police reform in Africa.Â
Len Le Roux served in the South African Department of Defence
(DoD) from 1964 to 2000. During the period 1995 to 2000, he was involved
in the development of the South African White Paper on Defence, the Defence
Review, and the D0D Transformation Project. After leaving the DoD (with
the rank of Major General) in 2000, he joined the ISS, as head of the Defence
Sector Programme.Â
Martin Rupiya is Senior Researcher with the Defence Management
Programme at ISS. Previously (2002), he was a visiting Senior Research Fellow
with the Centre for Africa?s International Relations within the Department
of International Relations at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
Prior to this, he served as Director of the Centre for Defence Studies (1993)
and Senior Lecturer in War & Strategic Studies in the Department of
History at the University of Zimbabwe (1990). Martin holds a PhD in Military
History, University of Zimbabwe (UZ); an MA from Kings College London, UK;
a BA Hons. in Economics and History, and a Diploma in War & Strategic
Studies, University of Zimbabwe.Â
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