Ssronline.org
Title
Centre for Security Sector Management - CSSM
Description
Excerpted from the website:
- Ann Fitz-Gerald is a senior lecturer in Cranfield University's Department of Defence Management and Security Analysis, and the Associate Dean (Research). She holds degrees in Commerce, International Relations, Security Studies and Defence Management. Her PhD examined the impact national disparities with multinational military forces could have on sustainable development programmes running simultaneously with peace support operations in post-conflict states. Following an initial career in the financial sector, she entered Canadian diplomacy which included posts at the Pearson International Peacekeeping Training Centre and NATO. She is currently a Board member for the Institute for Research on Public Policy and Special Adviser for Foreign Policy for the Canadian Institute for Strategic Studies (CISS). Ann has worked on national security and security sector management issues for 14 years and is widely published in this field. Her most recent book is an edited volume entitled From Conflict to Community: A Combatant's Return to Citizenship. Ann has worked in both research and practitioner capacities in Africa, Asia, South-East Europe and the Caribbean. She led the Global Facilitation Network for Security Sector Reform (GFN-SSR) between 2002-2006 and has project-managed a number of other UK Government projects including two DFID-funded projects entitled Securing Humanitarian Space and the Development of Performance-based-metrics for evaluating humanitarian and development programmes, and a FCO-funded project on Failed and Collapsed States.
Languages
English
