Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh Explained

Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh
Honorific Suffix:PhD
Birth Date:5 December 1965
Birth Place:Tehran
Occupation:Researcher, lecturer, consultant
Period:1995–Present
Known For:Human security, Peacebuilding in Central Asia and Afghanistan
Website:https://sciences-po.academia.edu/shahrbanoutadjbakhsh
Education:Georgetown University
Alma Mater:Columbia University
Thesis Title:The A-Soviet Woman of the Muslim East and Nativization in Tajikistan
Thesis Year:1994
Doctoral Advisor:Edward A. Allworth
Discipline:History, Sociology, Anthropology, Political Science, Cultural Studies
Notable Works:Human Security: Concepts and Implications (2007)
Notable Ideas:"Human Security"

Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh (Persian شهربانو تاجبخش) (born 1965) is an Iranian-American researcher, university lecturer, and United Nations consultant in peacebuilding, conflict resolution, counter-terrorism, and radicalization, best known for her work in "Human Security" and for contributions in the republics of Central Asia and Afghanistan, as cited by the New York Times[1] and other publications[2] as well as hundreds of scholarly publications.[3] [4] Currently, she is a lecturer at Sciences Po, researcher, and consultant to the United Nations.[5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11]

Personal life and education

Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh was born on December 5, 1965, in Iran.

In 1987, she received a BA from Georgetown University. In 1991 she earned an MA and in 1994 a doctorate from Columbia University plus certificate from Columbia's Harriman Institute. Her doctoral thesis was "The A-Soviet Woman of the Muslim East and Nativization in Tajikistan" (1994), supervised by Edward A. Allworth.[12] [13] [14] [15]

Tadjbakhsh resides currently in France.

Career in academia and United Nations

Tadjbakhsh has been teaching at l’Institute d’Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po) since 2003. Currently she is teaching a course on Human Security and a course on Understanding and Responding to Violent Extremism,[16] both at the Master's of International Security at Sciences Po. She also runs a summer course on Human Security at the Summer School since 2017 at Sciences Po.[17] [18] [19]

She also currently works with various entities of the United Nations as a consultant on peacebuilding, counter-terrorism, and prevention of violent extremism and radicalization.

Contribution to Human Security studies

Tadjbakhsh is a thought leader in the field of Human Security studies, both as an academic subject and as a policy field. She has been teaching one of the longest running university courses on the subject at the Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po) in Paris since 2003, in addition to running a summer program at Sciences Po since 2007.

Her co-authored book "Human Security: Concepts and Implications"[20] should be, in the words of a reviewer, compulsory text for all those interested in serious academic discussions on the subject.[21] As a proponent of the broad approach to Human Security, she advocates for the definition that not only encompasses freedom from fear but also freedom from want and indignity.[22] In 2004, Tadjbakhsh founded Journal of Human Security (la revue de Sécurité Humaine) at Sciences Po, which ran through 2008.

She has written numerous monograms and articles,[23] contributed to the development of training manuals at the United Nations and has trained UN workers, government officials and practitioners on the Human Security approach and its policy and programming implications. In collaboration with the UN's Human Security Unit (New York), she prepared a training manual for operationalizing human security as a concept.[24] She also contributed to the reports of the UN Secretary General on Human Security which led to a General Assembly Resolution in 2012.[25]

In May 2013, Tadjbakhsh delivered a Kapuscinski Lecture sponsored by UNDP and the European Commission on the theme of Human Security, delivered at the University of Riga and the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga, Latvia. In 2021, she was interviewed for a podcast on spotify on what humanizing people meant for security.[26]

Expertise on Afghanistan and Central Asia

She is best known for her work on Central Asia[27] [28] [29] and Afghanistan.[30] Her writing on Central Asia was recommended for The New York Review of Books by Ahmed Rashid as part of what people should know about Central Asia.[31] She has written about cross-border communities across Central Asia and Afghanistan.[32] Between 2010 and 2016 she was a researcher at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) working on Regional Security Complexes around Afghanistan[33] which resulted in a book co-written with Kristian Berg Harpviken on Afghanistan: A Rock Between Hard Places.[34] [35] She also conducted research on the ethics of liberal peace[36] and edited a book on Rethinking the Liberal Peace.[37] She and her students conducted a joint research between Sciences Po and Kabul University in 2007. In 2015, she participated at the OSCE Security Days conference focusing on Contemporary Challenges to Euro-Atlantic Security hosted by the Wilson Center and talked about Enhancing Security and Stability in Afghanistan and Central Asia.[38]

Contributions to the field of understanding violent extremism and countering terrorism

Tadjbakhsh is also known for her expertise in the field of counterterrorism and prevention of violent extremism, especially in Central Asia and Afghanistan.[39] [40] [41] [42] She has been teaching a course on Understanding and Responding to Violent Extremism at the Master's of International Security at Sciences Po since 2018. Between 2010-2019, she was a consultant with the UN Regional Center for Preventive Diplomacy in Central Asia (UNRCCA) and the UN Office on Counter Terrorism (UNOCT),[43] and helped prepare the Joint Plan of Action for the Implementation of the UN Global Counter Strategy in Central Asia, adopted in November 2011 and revised and updated in 2021.[44] In January 2018, she worked as an Advisor to the Permanent Mission of Kazakhstan to the United Nations on their Presidency of the United Nations Security Council to help with resolutions and statements on counter-terrorism and on Afghanistan. She helped the Government of Kazakhstan prepare the Code of Conduct for A World Free of Terrorism that was then adopted by 70 countries at the United Nations.[45] [46] [47] Since 2017, she has collaborated on numerous projects for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), including helping prepare the Guidebook on a government-civil society collaboration on countering and preventing violent extremism and radicalization that leads to terrorism and conducting training for journalists and the youth on countering the use of the Internet for terrorist purposes through alternative narrative development.[48]

Teaching and research

She has taught as an adjunct associate professor at Georgetown University,[49] at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs and a visiting scholar at the Harriman Institute for post-Soviet Studies through (2003–2004) and has been delivered lectures as a visiting professor at various universities in Tehran, at Kabul University, at Jamia Islamiya University (Jamia-tul-Madina) and at Jawaharlal Nehru University in India, at the University of Pretoria in South Africa, at the Russian Center for Strategic Research and International Studies]] in Russia, and at the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tajikistan.

Since 2014, she has been academic advisor to the Afghan Institute for Strategic Studies (AISS) and has provided guidance for the research and publication of a series of papers on radicalization in Afghanistan.[50] With the AISS, she has been developing a concept of security based on sufism and love, as part of a project on developing the Herat School of Security.[51] [52] [53]

Tadjbakhsh has served on the board of governors of Jacobs University Bremen (International University of Bremen, Germany) between (2008–2010). She has also served on editorial boards of the Journal of Conflict Transformation and Security, University of Manchester (2012 – Present), Les Cahiers de l’Orient (2007–2008), Central Asia Monitor (1993–2000), and the Afghan Institute for Strategic Studies (since 2015).

United Nations

Tadjbakhsh served on the staff of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) from 1997 to 2003 and since then has collaborated with UN agencies as a consultant, including the Political Affairs, UN Regional Center for Preventive Diplomacy (under DPPA), United Nations Counter-Terrorism Office and United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP), as well as the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).In 2000, while working at the Human Development Report Office at UNDP headquarters (New York City), Tadjbakhsh set up the National Human Development Report (NHDR) Unit in 2000 and ran a Community of Practice Network on Human Development.In 2003, Tadjbakhsh left the UN but has continued to contribute to UN Human Development Reports. She led team in preparing Human Development Reports on South Eastern Europe, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Iran, Nepal and South East Europe She also worked with teams in preparing Human Development Reports for Bosnia and Herzegovina, Djibouti, and Mongolia among others.

The first UNDP/Government National Human Development Report for Afghanistan, published in 2004, for which Tadjbakhsh served as editor in chief, received notice by New York Times as the "first comprehensive look at the state of development in Afghanistan in 30 years." More than 15 years prior to the US pull-out from Afghanistan in 2021, the report warned, "In addition to ranking Afghanistan in the development index for the first time, the report warned that Afghanistan could revert to anarchy if its dire poverty, poor health and insecurity were not improved. 'The fragile nation could easily tumble back into chaos,' concluded the authors of the study, led by Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh."

Since 2010, Tadjbakhsh has been a consultant for the United Nations Regional Center for Preventive Diplomacy in Central Asia (UNRCCA) and the UN Office of Counter Terrorism, for whom she has engaged in preparing the Action Plan for Implementation of the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy (UNGCTS) in Central Asia.[54] In January 2018, she worked with the Permanent Mission of Kazakhstan to the United Nations on their Presidency of the United Nations Security Council to help with resolutions and statements on counter-terrorism and on Afghanistan.

Selected bibliography

Tadjbakhsh's work appears in detail on WorldCat.[55] They include:

Books

Chapters, articles, other

External sources

See also

Notes and References

  1. News: Carlotta. Gall. Afghan Living Standards Among the Lowest, U.N. Finds. New York Times. 2005-02-22. 2021-08-01.
  2. Amitabh. Singh. Human Security: Concepts and Implications (review). India Quarterly: A Journal of International Affairs. 2008-04-01. 10.1177/097492840806400210. 152865946. 2021-08-01.
  3. Web site: author:"Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh". Google Scholar. 2021-08-01. 2021-08-01.
  4. Web site: Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh. Semantic Scholar. 2005-02-22. 2021-08-01.
  5. Web site: Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh. Sciences Po. 4 August 2021.
  6. Web site: Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh. Academia.edu. 26 November 2017.
  7. Web site: Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh. Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO). 2016. 26 November 2017.
  8. Web site: Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh. Norwegian Centre for Conflict Resolution. 2016. 26 November 2017.
  9. Web site: Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh. Open Democracy. 29 January 2018.
  10. Web site: Book Launch with Author Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh. George Washington University. 1 September 2016. 29 January 2018.
  11. Web site: Summer School: Human Security. Sciences Po. 2018-01-23. 5 February 2018.
  12. Book: Cummings , Sally N. . Sovereignty After Empire. Edinburgh University Press. 386. 11 September 2012. 29 January 2018. 9780748675395.
  13. Book: Edward A.. Allworth. Central Asia, 130 Years of Russian Dominance: A Historical Overview. Duke University Press. 617. 1994. 29 January 2018. 978-0822315216.
  14. Book: John Heathershaw. Edmund Herzig. The Transformation of Tajikistan: The Sources of Statehood. Routledge. 16. 13 September 2013. 29 January 2018. 9781135697600.
  15. News: Shahrbanou . Tadjbakhsh. Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh. Remembering Edward Allworth. Eurasianet. 16. 27 October 2016. 29 January 2018.
  16. Web site: Tadjbakhsh . Shahrbanou . Understanding and responding to violent extremism . 11 August 2021.
  17. Web site: Summer School: Professors. Sciences Po. 2014-06-23. 5 February 2018.
  18. Web site: Summer School: Social Sciences. Sciences Po. 2014-06-23. 5 February 2018.
  19. Web site: SciencesPo . SciencesPo Summer School . SciencesPo Summer School . 15 July 2014 . Sciences Po.
  20. Book: Tadjbakhsh . Shahrbanou . Chenoy . Anuradha . Human Security: Concepts and Implications . October 27, 2008 . Routledge . 9780415473385 . 292 . 11 August 2021.
  21. Book reviews: Understanding Human Security . SAGE Journals . 10.1177/002088170704400305 . 220852708 . 11 August 2021.
  22. Book: Tadjbakhsh . Shahrbanou . The Routledge Handbook of Human Security . 2013 . Routledge . 10.4324/9781315885926.ch3 . 9780415581288 .
  23. Web site: Tadjbakhsh . Shahrbanou . Human Security twenty years on . The Norwegian Peacebuilding Resource Centre . NOREF.
  24. Web site: Tadjbakhsh . Shahrbanou . Human Security in theory and practice . United Nations Trust Fund for Human Security . United Nations . 11 August 2021.
  25. Web site: UN General Assembly Resolution . United Nations . 11 August 2021.
  26. Web site: Tadjbakhsh . Shahrbanou . Interview with Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh . Trilateral Research . 11 August 2021.
  27. Web site: Tadjbakhsh . Shahrbanou . Central Asia and Afghanistan: Insulation on the Silk Road, Between Eurasia and the Heart of Asia. PRIO Papers . Peace Research Institute Oslo . 9 August 2021.
  28. Web site: Tadjbakhsh . Shahrbanou . Strangers Across the Amu River: Community Perceptions Along the Tajik–Afghan Borders. Stockholm International Peace Research Institute . 11 August 2021.
  29. Web site: International Seminar on India and the Major Powers in Central and West Asia: Challenges and Opportunities . Jamia Millia Islamia.
  30. Web site: Interview with Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh, researcher on security issues around Afghanistan. Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe. 9 August 2021.
  31. Rashid . Ahmed . Why, and What, You Should Know About Central Asia . The New York Review . 15 August 2013 . 9 August 2021.
  32. Book: Tadjbakhsh . Shahrbanou . Women's Human Insecurities Across Tajik-Kyrgyz Borders: An Assessment and Recommendations by Women Activists . 2017 . UN Women . 62 . 9 August 2021.
  33. Web site: Tadjbakhsh . Shahrbanou . Berg Harpviken . Kristian . Afghanistan in a Neighbourhood Perspective . PRIO . 11 August 2021.
  34. Web site: Tadjbakhsh . Shahrbanou . Book launch . Central Asia Program . 11 August 2021.
  35. Web site: Tadjbakhsh . Shahrbanou . Berg Harpviken . Kristian . A Rock Between Hard Places . PRIO . 11 August 2021.
  36. Web site: Tadjbakhsh . Shahrbanou . Liberal Peace and the Ethics of Peacebuilding . PRIO . 11 August 2021.
  37. Book: Tadjbakhsh . Shahrbanou . Rethinking the Liberal Peace . March 4, 2011 . Routledge . 9780415600552 . 272 . 11 August 2021.
  38. Web site: Tadjbakhsh . Shahrbanou . Afghanistan and Central Asia: Enhancing Stability and Security in the Region . Youtube . Woodrow Wilson Centre . 11 August 2021.
  39. Web site: Tadjbakhsh . Shahrbanou . Prévenir le terrorisme en Asie centrale : Novastan a reçu Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh . Novastan.org . 16 August 2021.
  40. Web site: Turkmenistan and NATO hold forum on regional peace and stability . NATO . 16 August 2021.
  41. Web site: Challenges related to foreign terrorist fighters and counter terrorism strategies in focus at OSCE Border Management Staff College event . OSCE . 16 August 2021.
  42. Web site: Tadjbakhsh . Shahrbanou . Radicalization in the Heart of Asia Countries: Inputs for Informed Policy Actions . Islamic Republic of Afghanistan - Ministry of Foreign Affairs . 16 August 2021.
  43. Web site: Tadjbakhsh . Shahrbanou . Addressing Conditions Conducive to the Spread of Violent Extremism and Terrorism . UNOCT - UNCCT . 16 August 2021.
  44. Web site: The Joint Plan of Action for Central Asia . UNRCCA . UN . 16 August 2021.
  45. Web site: Cooperation, Collaboration between Countries Crucial in Combating International Terrorism, Sixth Committee Speakers Stress, Hailing 'Code of Conduct' . United Nations . 16 August 2021.
  46. Web site: Code of conduct: towards achieving a world free of terrorism . United Nations . 16 August 2021.
  47. Web site: Kudrenok . Tatyana . Nazarbayev's visit shows best features of Kazakhstan's diplomacy - UN consultant . Kazinform . 16 August 2021.
  48. Web site: A Whole-of-Society Approach to Preventing and Countering Violent Extremism and Radicalization That Lead to Terrorism: A Guidebook for Central Asia . OSCE . 16 August 2021.
  49. Web site: Tadjbakhsh . Shahrbanou . GU: Bio and Featured Works . Georgetown University . 19 August 2021.
  50. Web site: Mr. David Sedney and Prof. Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh Join AISS's Board of Advisers . Afghan Institute for Strategic Studies . 19 August 2021.
  51. Web site: Herat School of Security II: 1 . Youtube . Afghan Institute for Strategic Studies . 19 August 2021 . en.
  52. Web site: Herat School of Security II: 2. Youtube . Afghan Institute for Strategic Studies . 19 August 2021 . en.
  53. Web site: AISS: Herat School of Security . Afghan Institute for Strategic Studies . 19 August 2021.
  54. Web site: Tadjbakhsh . Shahrbanou . Implementing the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy in Central Asia . 10 August 2021.
  55. Web site: Tadjbakhsh, Shahrbanou . worldcat.org . August 27, 2016.
  56. Book: Shahrbanou. Tadjbakhsh. Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh. Kristian P. . Harpviken. A Rock Between Hard Places: Afghanistan in its Regional Security Complexes. Oxford University Press/Hurst Publishers. 2016. 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190627232.001.0001. 9780190663018.
  57. Y.M. . Bammi. A Rock Between Hard Places: Afghanistan in its Regional Security Complexes. Journal of Defence Studies. 4 November 2017. 29 January 2018.
  58. News: Kristian Berg . Harpviken. Nytt kapittel i det store spillet om Afghanistan (New chapter in the big game about Afghanistan). ABC Nyheter (ABC News). ABC Startsiden AS. 30 January 2018. 29 January 2018.
  59. Book: Shahrbanou. Tadjbakhsh. Rethinking the Liberal Peace: External Models and Local Alternatives. Routledge. 2011. 2010042134.
  60. Book: Shahrbanou. Tadjbakhsh. Rethinking the Liberal Peace: External Models and Local Alternatives. Routledge. 2011. 26 November 2017.
  61. Book: Shahrbanou. Tadjbakhsh. Rethinking the Liberal Peace: External Models and Local Alternatives. Routledge. 2011. 28 January 2018.
  62. Book: Shahrbanou. Tadjbakhsh. Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh. Anuradha M.. Chenoy. 9780415473385. 2006022001. Human Security: Concepts and Implications. Routledge. 2008.
  63. Book: Shahrbanou. Tadjbakhsh. Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh. Anuradha M.. Chenoy. 9780415473385. Human Security: Concepts and Implications. Routledge. 2007. 28 January 2018.
  64. Web site: Tadjbakhsh . Shahrbanou . Conceptualizing love for peace from below: humane security in Afghanistan . openDemocracy . Open Democracy . 10 August 2021.
  65. Web site: Shahrbanou. Tadjbakhsh. Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh. Mohammed . Fazeli. Iran and its Relationship with Afghanistan After the Nuclear Deal. PRIO. July 2016. 28 January 2018.
  66. Web site: Shahrbanou. Tadjbakhsh. Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh. Regional Responses to Radicalization in Afghanistan: Obstacles, Opportunities and an Agenda for Action. PRIO. March 2016. 28 January 2018.
  67. Web site: Shahrbanou. Tadjbakhsh. Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh. Kosimsho . Iskandarov. Abdul Ahad . Mohammadi. Strangers Across the Amu River: Community Perceptions Along the Tajik–Afghan Borders. SIPRI/OSF. October 2015. 28 January 2018.
  68. Web site: Shahrbanou. Tadjbakhsh . Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh. Human Security Twenty Years On. NOREF. 26 June 2014. 28 January 2018.
  69. Web site: Shahrbanou. Tadjbakhsh . Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh. In Defense of the Broad Approach of Human Security. Routledge. 2013. 28 January 2018.
  70. Web site: Shahrbanou. Tadjbakhsh . Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh. The Persian Gulf and Afghanistan: Iran and Saudi Arabia's Rivalry Projected. PRIO. 2013. 28 January 2018.
  71. Web site: Shahrbanou. Tadjbakhsh . Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh. Central Asia and Afghanistan: Insulation on the Silk Road, Between Eurasia and the Heart of Asia. PRIO. 2012. 28 January 2018.
  72. Web site: Shahrbanou. Tadjbakhsh . Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh. After 9/11: A Wasteland of Buried Reason. Open Democracy. 10 September 2011. 28 January 2018.
  73. Web site: Shahrbanou. Tadjbakhsh . Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh. South Asia and Afghanistan: The Robust India-Pakistan Rivalry. PRIO. 2012. 28 January 2018.
  74. Web site: Shahrbanou. Tadjbakhsh . Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh. Non-Western International Relations Theory: Perspectives on and Beyond Asia. Routledge. 2010. 28 January 2018.
  75. Web site: Shahrbanou. Tadjbakhsh . Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh. Liberal Peace is Dead? Not So Fast. Open Democracy. 27 November 2009. 28 January 2018.
  76. Web site: Shahrbanou. Tadjbakhsh . Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh. Peacemaking in Tajikistan and Afghanistan: Lessons Learned and Unlearned. SciencesPo/CERI. 2008. 28 January 2018.
  77. Book: Shahrbanou. Tadjbakhsh. Odette . Tomasco-Hatto. Normative and Ethical Frameworks for Human Security in Eastern and Central Europe: A Status Report. UNESCO. 2007. 28 January 2018.
  78. Shahrbanou. Tadjbakhsh . Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh. Human Security: Concept, Implications and Application for Post-Intervention Afghanistan. Études du CERI. September 2005. 28 January 2018.
  79. Book: Shahrbanou. Tadjbakhsh . Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh. Women in the Wider Muslim World. Lynne Rienner. 1996. 28 January 2018. 9781555875787 .
  80. Shahrbanou. Tadjbakhsh . Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh. Alexander . Motyl. Human Security: Concept, Implications and Application for Post-Intervention Afghanistan. Central Asian Survey. 1995. 28 January 2018.
  81. Book: Shahrbanou. Tadjbakhsh . Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh. Nassim . Jawad. Tajikistan: A Forgotten Civil War. The Minority Rights Group. 1995. 9781897693803 . 28 January 2018.
  82. Book: Shahrbanou. Tadjbakhsh . Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh. The Bloody Path of Change: The Case of Post-Soviet Tajikistan. Columbia University Harriman Institute Forum. 1993. 28 January 2018. Harriman forum, 6,1993:11 .

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