Jennifer Ball

Assistant Professor, Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Waterloo

Jennifer holds a Ph.D. in Rural Studies, with a focus on Sustainable Rural Communities, from the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. She has conducted research on issues of intercultural communication in professional planning, conflict management, storytelling, and rural land use planning. In 2010 she co-authored “Doing Democracy with Circle: Engaging Communities in Public Planning”. Her most recent research relates to women and peacebuilding, with a focus on Uganda, East Africa. Jennifer has taught courses on community engagement in planning and on international and community development at the University of Guelph and at Conrad Grebel University College, University of Waterloo. She has also conducted Circle trainings and workshops across Canada and Australia. Jennifer is an accredited land use and community development planner and worked for several years as a rural planner in Ontario, Canada. She currently consults with a number of research projects at the University of Guelph focused on rural community economic development, on community resilience in the face of climate change and peak oil, and on the use of Circles in community planning.

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