page_title: Des Ball
section_title: Awards
hierarchical_section_title: Des Ball / Awards
caption_attribution_description: English: A tree planted to commemorate Professor Desmond Ball near the HC Coombs Building at the Australian National University
context_page_description: Desmond John "Des" Ball AO was an Australian academic and expert on defence and security. He was credited with successfully advising the US against nuclear escalation in the 1970s.
context_section_description: Peter Baume Award, ANU (2013)
  Officer of the Order of Australia (2014)
  Festschrift volume, Brendan Taylor, Nicholas Farrelly and Sheryn Lee (eds.) 2012. Insurgent Intellectual: Essays in Honour of Professor Desmond Ball. Institute of South East Asian Studies. Including a contribution by Jimmy Carter.
  Ball Strategic Endowment ($AU 1.5m) established in 2013 for ANU research scholarship into Australian and Asian strategic studies and defence.
  Co-chairman of the Steering Committee of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (CSCAP) (2000–2002).
  Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (1986).
caption: A tree planted to commemorate Des Ball near the HC Coombs Building at the Australian National University
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