Jake Sherman is the Project Coordinator for CIC's Building International Capacity for Security Sector Reform project. He also contributes to state-building and conflict prevention work at CIC. From 2005 - 2007, Mr. Sherman was a consultant on peacebuilding issues in Cambodia for Oxfam GB, the American Friends Service Committee, and the Alliance for Conflict Transformation, a local NGO. Previously, he has worked for the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan and the International Peace Academy. Mr. Sherman holds a Masters in International Affairs from the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University.

Selected Publications:

• “Afghanistan: Nationally-Led State-Building,” in Charles T. Call with Vanessa Hawkins Wythe, eds., Building States to Build Peace, (Boulder: Lynne Rienner, forthcoming 2008).
• "Counter-Narcotics to Stabilize Afghanistan: The False Promise of Crop Eradication." Co-authored with Barnett R. Rubin. CIC: February 2008.
• "Dilemmas and Challenges in Afghanistan's Security Sector Reform." SSRBulletin, Issue 11 (2007): 2.
• David Malone and Jake Sherman, “Economic Factors in Civil Wars–Policy Considerations,” in I. William Zartman and Cynthia Arnson, eds., Rethinking the Economics of War:  The Intersection of Need, Creed, and Greed (Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars and The Johns Hopkins University Press, August 2005); reprinted in Chester A. Crocker, Fen Osler Hampson and Pamela Aall, eds., Leashing the Dogs of War: Conflict Management in a Divided World, (Washington, DC: USIP Press, January 2007).
• “Disarming Afghanistan's Warlords,” Praxis: The Fletcher School Journal of Human Security, Vol. XX, Spring 2005.
• “Introduction: Beyond Greed and Grievance,” in Karen Ballentine and Jake Sherman, eds., Beyond Greed and Grievance: Case Studies in the Political Economy of Armed Conflicts (Boulder: Lynne Rienner, August 2003). Co-authored with Karen Ballentine
• "The Political Economy of War and Peace-making: Lessons from Burma’s Cease-fires,” in Karen Ballentine and Jake Sherman, eds., Beyond Greed and Grievance: Case Studies in the Political Economy of Armed Conflicts (Boulder: Lynne Rienner, August 2003).
• “Regulating Resource Flows to Civil Wars: A Review and Analysis of Current Policies & Legal Instruments,” International Peace Academy Policy Paper, October 2002. Co-authored with Phillipe Le Billon and Marcia Hartwell.
• “Private Sector Actors in Zones of Conflict: Research Challenges and Policy Responses,” A Report of the International Peace Academy and the Fafo Institute for Applied Social Science, April 2001.
• “Peace vs. Profit: The Clandestine Diamond Economy of Angola,” The Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 52, No. 2, Spring 2000.

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