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Patrick Ball (born June 26, 1965) is an American statistician known for his quantitative analysis of human rights violations. He has provided statistical analysis for truth commissions, non-governmental organizations, international criminal tribunals, and United Nations missions. As director of research at the Human Rights Data Analysis Group, he conducts statistical analyses to document patterns of human rights abuses.
Ball earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Columbia University, and a doctorate from the University of Michigan in 1998.
In the 1990s, Ball advocated for the availability of cryptographic technology amid the debates over its export by U.S. software developers.
In 1993, he began working with the Science and Human Rights Program of the AAAS, initially as a consultant and eventually as deputy director. His work with the AAAS included traveling to El Salvador and Ethiopia to train local human rights organizations on the use of cryptography and the internet to protect their communications. The Science and Human Rights Program also organized or co-organized symposiums, including a congressional briefing at…
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