Shahrbanou
Tadjbakhsh is the Director of the Program for Peace and Human Security
(formerly Center for Peace and Human Security) at the CERI (Centre
d’etudes et Recherches Internationales), in Paris ) and the
Director of the Concentration on Human Security at the Master’s
of Public Affairs.
At
Sciences Po, she also teaches Mphil and Master’s level classes
on human security and on international organizations. She has launched
the peer reviewed student run academic journal, the Journal of Human
Security/la revue de Sécurité Humaine.
Prior
to moving to France, she was an Adjunct Lecturer at Columbia University’s
School of International and Public Affairs and a Visiting Scholar
at the Harriman Institute for post-Soviet Studies (2002-2004). She
has also been a visiting professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University,
New Delhi, India (Summer 2005), at the Russian Centre for Strategic
Research and International studies, Moscow (1994), and at the Academy
of Sciences in Dushanbe, Tajikistan (1992). Between1995-2002, she
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.
She continues to provide consultation services to teams preparing
National Human Development Reports and has recently worked with teams
in Nepal, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, China, India, Kuwait, South East
Asia, Mongolia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan. She was the
Editor in Chief of Security with a Human Face: Challenges and Responsibilities,
National Human Development Report for Afghanistan which was published
in 2004.
Tadjbakhsh
holds a PhD and a Master's Degree from Columbia University and a Bachelor's
Degree from Georgetown University in the US. She is of Iranian origin.
Current
Research:
- Perception gaps on peace and peacebuilding: Models and modalities
of Liberal Peace and its local alternatives, 6 months research jointly
with students and professors of the Faculty of Law and Political
Sciences, Kabul University and Sciences Po/CPHS students
- Human Security, theories and implications
- North South divide in international relations
- Ethics of Liberal Peace, with a case study on Afghanistan , jointly
with the PRIO, Oslo
Publications:
- “Mahbub Ul Haq’s Human Security Vision: An Unfettered
Dream?” Chapter in Khadija Haq & al, Legacy of Mahbub Ul
Haq, Oxford University Press (Forthcoming)
- Chapter on “Coping Mechanisms and Household’s Responses”,
in Black Sea And Central Asian Economic Outlook 2008: Promoting Work
and Well-being, Paris: OECD Development Center (Forthcoming)
- “Normative and Ethical Frameworks for Human Security in Eastern
and Central Europe: A Status Report”, with Odette Tomasco-Hatto,
for UNESCO publication (Forthcoming)
- “Peacemaking in Tajikistan and Afghanistan: Lessons Learned
and Unlearned.” Etudes du CERI No 143, April 2008, Paris: CERI
Sciences Po.
- “Playing with Fire? The International Community’s Democratization
Experiment in Afghanistan” (with Michael Schoistwohl), Journal
of International Peacekeeping, Vol.15, No.2, April 2008, pp.252–267
- “Afghanistan: A Failed Narco-State or a Human Security Failure?”,
Chapter in Hans Günter Brauch & al. (eds), Globalisation
and Environmental Challenges, Volume 4, Springer-Verlag, 2008.
- Human Security In International Organizations: Blessing or Scourge?,
The Human Security Journal, Volume 4, Summer 2007
- Installing Democracy in Afghanistan (with Michael Schoistwohl) Seminar
Magazine, New Delhi, India August 2007
- Human Security: Concepts and Implications (Co-authored with
Anuradha Chenoy), London, Routledge Publishers, 2006
- “State Failure Through the Human Security Lens”, Chapter
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).
- “Normative and Ethical Frameworks for Human Security in Eastern
and Central Europe: A Status Report”, with Odette Tomasco-Hatto,
for UNESCO publication (Forthcoming)
- “La Diplomatie, une bombe humaine (on whether France should
adopt human security as its foreign policy), Alternatives Internationales-Ceri
Hors Serie Les Enjeux 2007, (November 2006) (in French)
- « Human Security: Concepts, Implications and Application to the
Post-Intervention Challenges in Afghanistan» Etudes du CERI,
Paris : Centre de Recherches Internationales, (No. 118, September
2005)
- “Regional Cooperation on Drugs, Terrorism and Natural Disasters
in Central Asia”, Chapter in Report Regional Cooperation for
Human Security in Central Asia, Brookings Institute/UNDP, October
2005
- Editor in Chief, "Security with a Human Face: Challenges and Responsibilities",
National Human Development Report for Afghanistan, UNDP and Government
of Afghanistan, 2005
- « 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)
- “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.
- Director of Project, The Diary: Personal History of an Early
Twentieth Century Bukharan Intellectual, Leiden Press, Brill.
2003.
- Impact of Restructuring on Women in Central Asia: A Regional
Perspective, in Central Asia 2010, Publication of the Regional
Bureau for Europe and the CIS, UNDP, 1998
- "National Reconciliation in Tajikistan: the Imperfect Whim", in
The Central Asian Survey, No. 1, 1997.
- Economic Regionalism, Former Soviet South Project Series Briefing,
London, The Royal Institute of International Affairs, March 1996.
- "Between Socialism and Islam: Women in Tajikistan", in Tohidi and
Herbert (Eds.), Women in the Wider Muslim World, New York,
Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1996.
- Women's Economic Survey of Tajikistan, UNHCR Report, Dushanbe,
Tajikistan, February 1996.
- Co-author with Nassim Jawad, Tajikistan: A Forgotten Civil War,
London, The Minority Rights Group, 1995.
- "Tajikistan: From Freedom to War", in Current History, April
1994
- "Women and War in Tajikistan", in The Central Asian Monitor,
No. 1, January 1994.
- The Bloody Path of Change: The Case of Post-Soviet Tajikistan,
New York, Harriman Institute Forum, Columbia University, 1993.
- "Tajik Spring of 1992: A Comparison of Tajik Political Parties",
in The Central Asian Monitor, No. 2, April 1993.
- "Causes and Consequences of the Civil War", in The Central Asian
Monitor, No.1, February 1993.
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