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Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh
Associate Professor
shahrbanou.tadjbakhsh@sciences-po.org

Holds a Master’s degree and a Ph.D. from Columbia University and a Bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University, Washington, DC. Director of the CERI Program for Peace and Human Security (CPSH) and editor-in-chief of the Human Security Journal. Director of the Human Security concentration, Master of Public Affairs at Sciences Po. Member of the “Ethics of Liberal Peace” research program led by the Peace Research Institute of Oslo (PRIO)
Former adjunct lecturer at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs; visiting scholar at the Harriman Institute for post-Soviet Studies (2002-2004); visiting professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India (Summer 2005); visiting scholar at the Russian Centre for Strategic Research and International studies, Moscow (1994). Between1995 and 2002, worked as a staff member of the UNDP in various field assignments in Central Asia, the CIS and Eastern Europe with a last posting as Policy Advisor to National Human Development Reports (NHDR) at the human Development Report Office in UNDP New York.  Provides consultation services to teams preparing National Human Development Reports in Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, China, India, Kuwait, South East Asia, Mongolia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan.
Currently involved in a collaborative project between CERI and the University of Kabul on the differences in perceptions of the construction of a “liberal peace” in Afghanistan.
Participates in the CERI Transversal Project “The End of Violence.”

Teaching
- Sciences Po : “Human Security”, (Master of Public Affairs)

Research interests
- Human security
- Critical approaches to peace-building (liberal peace)
- War and peace in Tajikistan and Afghanistan
- North/South relations and international organizations

Bio en français

Publications
Books
  • Human Security, Concepts and Implication, with Anuradha M. Chenoy,  Routledge UK, 2007.
  • "Normative and Ethical Frameworks for Human Security in Eastern and Central Europe: A Status Report", with Odette Tomasco-Hatto,  Paris, UNESCO, 2007. 
  • Economic Regionalism. Former Soviet South Project Series Briefing, London:  The Royal Institute of International Affairs, March 1996.
  • Tajikistan A Forgotten Civil War , with Nassim Jawad,  London:  The Minority Rights Group, London, 1995.
  • The Bloody Path of Change:  The Case of Post-Soviet Tajikistan, New York:  Harriman Institute Forum, Columbia University, 1993.
Editorships of books and special issues Articles in peer-reviewed journals
  • "Playing with Fire?  The International Community’s Democratization Experiment in Afghanistan", Journal of International Peacekeeping (Forthcoming, 2008).
  • "Democracy in Afghanistan?" Seminar , New Delhi, India  August 2007. 
  • "National Reconciliation in Tajikistan: the Imperfect Whim", The Central Asian Survey,  n°. 1, 1997.
  • "Tajikistan:  From Freedom to War", Current History,  April 1994.
  • "Women and War in Tajikistan", The Central Asian Monitor, n° 1, January 1994.
  • "Tajik Spring of 1992:  A Comparison of Tajik Political Parties", Central Asian Monitor, n° 2, april 1993.
  • "Causes and Consequences of the Civil War", Central Asian Monitor, n°1, February 1993.
Contributions to edited volumes
  • "Mahbub Ul Haq’s Human Security Vision: An Unfettered Dream?" Chapter in Khadija Haq & al, Legacy of Mahbub Ul Haq, Oxford University Press (Forthcoming, 2008).
  • "Afghanistan: A Failed Narco-State or a Human Security Failure?", Chapter in Hans Günter Brauch & al. (eds), Globalisation and Environmental Challenges, Springer-Verlag, 2008.
  • State Failure Through the Human Security Lens", in Chataigner, Jean-Marc and Hervé Magro (eds), Etats et Sociétés Fragiles,  Karthala: Paris,  January 2007 (in French).
  • "Afghanistan: A failed Narco-State or a Human Security Failure?", in Hans Günter Brauch & al. (eds), Globalisation and Environmental Challenges, AFES PRESS, (Forthcoming).
  • "Regional Cooperation on Drugs, Terrorism and Natural Disasters in Central Asia", Chapter in Report Regional Cooperation for Human Security in Central Asia, Johannes Linn Editor, Brookings Institute/UNDP, Upcoming 2005.
  • "Paix libérale et assistance en Asie Centrale" in Guillaume Devin Editor, Faire la Paix, Paris, Editions Pepper, Chaos International, 2005.
  • "A Human Security Agenda for Central Asia",  in Farian Sabahi and Daniel Warner Editors, The OSCE and The Multiple Challenges of Transition - The Caucasus and Central Asia. Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 2004.
  • "Between Socialism and Islam:  Women in Tajikistan", in Tohidi and Herbert editors, Women in the Wider Muslim World, New York, Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1996.
Other
  • "Peacemaking in Tajikistan and Afghanistan: Lessons Learned and Unlearned", Les Etudes du CERI, Paris (forthcoming, 2008).
  • "La Diplomatie, une bombe humaine", Alternatives Internationales-Ceri,  Hors Serie Les Enjeux 2007, november 2006.
  • "Pour les Afghans, la pauvreté est une menace plus redoutable que le terrorisme", OpEd piece co-authored with  Daud Saba and Omar Zakhilwal, Le Monde, Paris (February 17, 2005).
  • "Human Security: Concept, Implications and Application", Etudes du Ceri,  Paris n°. 118, September 2005.
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