Bruce D. Jones (born 1969) is an American

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, an

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and

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. He is the Director of the Foreign Policy program and Director of the Project on International Order and Strategy at the

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. He is also a consulting professor at the Freeman Spogli Institute at

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and chair of the advisory council of the Center on International Cooperation at

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. Through CIC, Jones has authored several policy reports and publications. The ''Annual Review of Global Peace Operations'' has rapidly become the reference text for data and analysis on peacekeeping. ''From Fragility to Resilience'' has provided new international definitions for resilience and statebuilding, which were adopted by OECD member states, and taken forward by the United Kingdom

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and others. Jones's book ''Power and Responsibility'' (2009), co-authored by Ambassador

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and Professor Stephen Stedman, received the BookNote Awards Gold Prize in 2009 for Best Book of the Year in the domain of Political Science. Jones is a board member of the Center on Global Counterterrorism Cooperation.

Education

Born in 1969, Jones entered the

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(LSE) in 1991, earning his

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in 2000 from the Department of International Relations. In 1997–1998, during which time he was registered part-time at LSE, he attended

as a David Hamburg Fellow on Conflict Prevention at the Stanford University

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Career

Jones joined CIC in 2002 as deputy director. From 2004 to 2005, he served as senior advisor in the office of the UN secretary-general during the UN reform effort leading up to the

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, and in the same period was acting secretary of the secretary-general's Policy Committee.

Selected publications

Books

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Articles

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References

External links

Center on International Cooperation

Brookings Institution

Stanford University Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC)

The World Bank: 2011 World Development Report
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