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. Earlier this year, Mr. Sherman was seconded to the secretariat of the International Panel on Safety and Security of UN Personnel and Premises. From 2005 - 2007, he 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, 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).

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