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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. 

?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. 

?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. 

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. 
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 SANDF 

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. 

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. 

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