Dr Ann Fitz-Gerald
Director, Centre for Security Sector Management
Location: Wellington Hall
E: a.m.fitz-gerald@cranfield.ac.uk
T: +44 1793 785 020
Department of Management and Security
Current activities
Ann is currently the Director of the Cranfield Centre for Security Sector Management. She currently manages research programmes which focus on national security; political, security and economic interdependencies of stabilisation operations; and the relationship between conflict prevention and security sector reform.
Ann is a Board member for the Institute for Research on Public Policy, a member of the National Security Working Group for the Canadian International Council (CIC), chair of the CSSM National Security Working Group and was was recently appointed to the Security Sector Advisory Group for UK Trade and Investment.
Ann has worked on national security, security sector reform/management and joined-up government issues for 16 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.
Clients
Department for International Development, Foreign Commonwealth Office, UK Ministry of Defence, Canadian Ministry of Defence
United Nations private security industry, US Agency for International Development
Background
Dr. Ann Fitz-Gerald holds degrees in Commerce, International Relations, Security Studies and Security & 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 Headquarters. 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.
She 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.
Selected publications
Ann M Fitz-Gerald, “The New 2008 UK National Security Strategy: Implications for Defence in Peter Trim and Jack Caravelli (eds) Strategizing Resilience and Reducing Vulnerability, Nova Science Publishing, July 2008. (to be published submitted 7 October 2008)
Ann M Fitz-Gerald, “A Performance Measurement System for Security Sector Reform” in Journal of Security Sector Management, Issue 1, Volume 6, March 2008.
Ann M Fitz-Gerald, “A UK National Security Strategy: Institutional and Cultural Challenges” in Defence Studies, Vol 8, Issue 1, March 2008, pp.4-25.
Ann M Fitz-Gerald and Jeff Isima, “Considering Alternative approaches to post-conflict demilitarization: The case of South Africa in Christopher Ankerson (ed) Civil Military Cooperation in Post Conflict Operations, Routledge, 2007.
Ann M Fitz-Gerald, “Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR): The Three-Phased Approach in Sierra Leone” in Ann M Fitz-Gerald and Hilary Mason (eds) From Conflict to Community: A Combatant’s Return to Citizenship. GFN Publications: London, 2005.
Ann M. Fitz-Gerald, “Addressing the security-development nexus: Implications for Joined-Up Government” in Stephen Klingbiel (ed) New Interfaces Between Security and Development: Changing Concepts and Approaches, 2006.
Ann M Fitz-Gerald, “Facing the Facts – Peacekeeping’s Place Within a Broader Approach to Security” in Journal of Conflict Studies, Spring 2005, pp 3-21.
Ann M Fitz-Gerald, “Bridging Security and Development: Global Policy Implications” in Necla Tschirgi and Francesco Mancini (eds) Critical Connections: Re-thinking Conflicts in the Developing World. (Lynn Reiner: New York), July 2005 (yet to be published).
Ann M Fitz-Gerald and W D Macnamara, “A National Security Framework for Canada” in Hugh Segal (editor) Geopolitical Integrity, Institute for Research on Public Policy (2005), pp. 81-105
Ann M Fitz-Gerald, “Multinational Land Force Inter-operability: Meeting the Challenge of Different Cultural Backgrounds in Chapter 6 Peace Support Operations” in Hugh Segal (editor) Geopolitical Integrity, Institute for Research on Public Policy (2005), pp. 217-245
Ann M Fitz-Gerald, “Military and Post-Conflict Security: Implications for American, British and other Allied Force Planning and for Post-conflict Iraq” in Hugh Segal (editor) Geopolitical Integrity, Institute for Research on Public Policy (2005), pp. 81-105
Ann M Fitz-Gerald, “The Security-Development Nexus: Implications for Joined-Up Government” in Policy Matters, Vol 5, No. 2 July, 2004.
Ann M Fitz-Gerald, “The civil-military interface with local populations: The impact on peacebuilding activities”, in Sicherheit und Frieden (Security and Peace) Normos Publishers, Vol. 22, No. 2, 2004.
A M Fitz-Gerald, “Choose development over military might: Using military might to combat terrorists and their networks does not address the reasons terrorist are able to flourish in certain regions”, The Sun Times, Canada, 7 July 2004.
Ann M Fitz-Gerald, “The US must choose economic development over military might” The Star, Toronto, Canada, 9 July 2004.
Ann M Fitz-Gerald, “The US must choose development over military might” in The Tribune, Wednesday, 7 July 2004, p A6.
Ann M. Fitz-Gerald, Derrick J. Neal and Paul Molinaro, "A Strategic
Management Framework for Improved Aid Delivery," in New Missions, Old Problems, edited by Douglas L. Bland, David Last, Franklin Pinch and Alan Okros (Montreal and Kingston: School of Policy Studies, Queen's University and The Canadian Armed Forces Leadership Institute by McGill-Queen's University Press), pp. 47-67.
A M Fitz-Gerald, “Peacekeeping Intelligence”, in Journal of Security Sector Management, Vol. 1, Issue 3, March 2004.
Books, Monographs, and Equivalent
A M Fitz-Gerald (ed) From Conflict to Community: A Combatant’s Return to Citizenship. GFN Publications: London, 2005. ISBN: 0-9546500-4-2
A M Fitz-Gerald. Security Sector Reform in Sierra Leone. Shrivenham: GFN-SSR, 2004, ISBN: 0-9546500-2-6.
A M Fitz-Gerald and A M Lálá (eds). Influencing Regional and Sub-regional Agendas in Africa: The Value of Networking. Shrivenham: GFN-SSR, 2003, ISBN: 0-9546500-1-8.
A M Fitz-Gerald and A M Lálá (eds). Providing Security for the People. Shrivenham: GFN-SSR, September 2003, ISBN: 0-9546500-0-X
