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Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh

Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh directs and teaches a programme on Human Security as part of the Master’s in Public Affairs at Sciences Po (l’Institut d’Etudes Politiques) in Paris; is a research associate with the Peace Research Institute, Oslo; and is a consultant with the UN on counter-terrorism in Central Asia. She is the editor of Rethinking the Liberal Peace: External Models and Local Alternatives (Routledge, 2011); the author, with Anuradha Chenoy, of Human Security: Concepts and Implications (Routledge, 2007) and of several reports, chapters in books and journal articles on human security and peace-building with case studies on Afghanistan and Central Asia; and a contributor to the National Human Development Reports of, among others, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States, China, Nepal, Georgia, Mongolia and Tajikistan. She has taught at Columbia University as an adjunct professor and has been a visiting professor or researcher at universities in New Delhi, Pretoria, Moscow and Dushanbe. She has worked for seven years for the UN Development Programme in New York and Central Asia.

Research areas: Asia

Publications

Post-war on terror? Implications from a regional perspective: Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh 3 August 2011
This paper examines three possible impacts of the death of Osama bin Laden on the war on terror from the perspective of countries surrounding Afghanistan. A first scenario sees America abandoning the global war on terror (GWoT) on the territory of Afghanistan and moving its attention to new fronts, such as containing the uprisings in t... more