Professor Jonathan Goodhand
BA, PGCE (Birmingham); MSc, PhD (Manchester)
Overview
Department of Development Studies
Professor
Centre of South Asian Studies
Member, Centre of South Asian Studies
Centre of Contemporary Central Asia & the Caucasus
Member, Centre of Contemporary Central Asia and the Caucasus
Centre for the Study of Pakistan
Member, Centre for the Study of Pakistan
Centre for the International Politics of Conflict, Rights and Justice
Member
Development Policy, Aid, Institutions and Poverty Reduction Research Cluster
Research Cluster Member
Violence, Peace and Development Research Cluster
Research Cluster Member
- Name:
- Professor Jonathan Goodhand
- Email address:
- jg27@soas.ac.uk
- Telephone:
- 020 7898 4483
- Address:
- SOAS, University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG - Building:
- Russell Square: College Buildings
- Office No:
- 296
- Office Hours:
- Monday 2-4
Biography
Jonathan Goodhand studied at the Universities of Birmingham and Manchester, with qualifications in education as well as development -BA PGCE(Birmingham) MSc (Manchester) and PhD (Manchester). He worked for some years managing humanitarian and development programmes in conflict situations in Afghanistan/Pakistan and Sri Lanka, and has extensive experience as a researcher and advisor in South and Central Asia for a range of NGOs and aid agencies, including DFID, SDC, ILO and UNDP. His research interests include the political economy of aid and conflict, NGOs and peacebuilding and ‘post conflict’ reconstruction.
Teaching
Programmes Convened
Courses Taught
- Development practice
- Issues in development practice
- Political economy of violence, conflict and development
- War to Peace Transitions (MSc Research for International Development)
- War to peace transitions
PhD Students supervised
- Adam Burke, Internal conflict and the developmental state, focusing on Thailand
- Aziz Ahmad Hakimi, Between Assumptions and Practices: Negotiating Statehood in Contemporary Afghanistan
- Benjamin Petrini, Policy Dilemmas of Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) Programs: The Case of Colombia (provisional)
- David Mansfield, Drug eradication and opium cultivation in Afghanistan
- Filippo De Danieli, Drug political economy/mafias in Tajikistan
- Mariyam Shiuna, Working Title: Urban violence and disillusionment with democracy in the Maldives.
- Mehair Kathem,
- Orzala Ashraf Nemat, The changing nature of local power dynamics and governance at the community level in Afghanistan
- Patrick Meehan,
- Sarajuddin Isar,
- Sylvia Brown, The role of youths in the Karan National Liberation Organisation
Expertise
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Available for
Regional Expertise
- Central Asia
- South Asia
Country Expertise
- Afghanistan
- Sri Lanka
Languages
Publications
Authored Books
Goodhand, Jonathan (2006) Aiding Peace? The Role of NGOs in Armed Conflict. Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner Publishers.
Pugh, Michael and Cooper, Neil and Goodhand, Jonathan (2004) War Economies in a Regional Context. Challenges for Transformation. London: Lynne Rienner. (A project of the International Peace Academy)
Edited Books
Goodhand, Jonathan and Spencer, Jonathan and Korf, Benedikt, eds. (2011) Conflict and peacebuilding in Sri Lanka: caught in the peace trap? London: Routledge. (Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series)
Book Chapters
Goodhand, Jonathan and Dennys, Christian and Mansfield, David (2011) 'A Dangerous Peace? Drugs, post conflict statebuilding and horizontal inequalities in Afghanistan.' In: Langer, Arnim and Stewart, Frances and Venugopal, Rajesh, (eds.), Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Horizontal Inequalities. London: Palgrave MacMillan, pp. 249-274. (Conflict, Inequality and Ethnicity Series)
Cramer, Christopher and Goodhand, Jonathan (2011) 'Hard science or waffly crap? Evidence-based policy versus policy-based evidence in the field of violent conflict.' In: Bayliss, Kate and Fine, Ben and Waeyenberge, Eisa Van, (eds.), The Political Economy of Development. The World Bank, Neo-Liberalism and Development Reseearch. London: Pluto Press, pp. 215-238.
Goodhand, Jonathan (2011) 'Corrupting or Consolidating the Peace? The Drugs Economy and Post Conflict Peacebuilding in Afghanistan.' In: Zaum, Dominik and Cheng, Christine, (eds.), Corruption and Post Conflict Peacebuilding: Selling the Peace? London: Routledge, pp. 144-161. (Cass Series on Peacekeeping, 29)
Goodhand, Jonathan and Korf, Benedikt (2011) 'The illiberal consequences of liberal peacebuilding.' In: Goodhand, Jonathan and Spencer, Jonathan and Korf, Benedikt, (eds.), Aid, conflict and peacebuilding in Sri Lanka. Caught in the Peace Trap'. London UK: Routledge, pp. 1-15.
Goodhand, Jonathan and Walton, Oliver (2011) 'Public versus private power: Non governmental organisations and international security.' In: McKercher, Brian, (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Diplomacy & Statecraft. London: Routledge, pp. 428-440.
Goodhand, Jonathan (2008) 'War, Peace and the Places In Between: Why Borderlands are Central.' In: Pugh, M. and Cooper, N. and Turner, M., (eds.), Whose Peace? Critical Perspectives on the Political Economy of Peacebuilding. London: Palgrave, pp. 225-244.
Goodhand, Jonathan (2008) 'Politics, Poppy and Statebuilding.' In: Hayes, G and Sedra, M, (eds.), Afghanistan. Transition Under Threat. Canada: Laurier University Press.
Goodhand, Jonathan (2006) 'Preparing to intervene in complex political emergencies.' In: Hanlon, J. and Yanacopulos, H., (eds.), Civil Wars, Civil Peace. Milton Keynes: Open University.
Goodhand, Jonathan (2006) 'Working 'in' and 'on' conflict.' In: Hanlon, J. and Yanacopulos, H., (eds.), Civil Wars, Civil Peace. Milton Keynes: Open University.
Goodhand, Jonathan (2004) 'Afghanistan in Central Asia.' In: Pugh, M. and Cooper, N. and Goodhand, J., (eds.), War Economies in a Regional Context: Challenges for Transformation. Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner Publishers, pp. 45-91. (A project of the International Peace Academy)
Goodhand, Jonathan (2003) 'Profits and Poverty: aid, livelihoods and conflict in Afghanistan.' In: Collinson, S, (ed.), Power, livelihoods and conflict: case studies in political economy analysis for humanitarian action. ODI, Humanitarian Policy Group (London), pp. 37-52.
Goodhand, Jonathan (2003) 'Try Again, Fail Again, Fail Better? War, the State and the Post Conflict Challenge in Afghanistan.' In: Milliken, J, (ed.), State Failure, Collapse and Reconstruction. UNSPECIFIED.
Goodhand, Jonathan (2002) 'Complex Political Emergencies.' In: Kirkpatrick, C. and Clark, R. and Palidano, C., (eds.), Handbook on Development Policy and Management. Edward Elgar, pp. 269-278.
Goodhand, Jonathan (2002) 'Afghanistan: the challenge of winning the peace.' In: Mekenkamp, M and van, P and van, H, (eds.), Searching for peace in Central And South Asia. Lynne Reinner (USA), pp. 109-140.
Goodhand, Jonathan (2002) 'From holy war to opuim war?: A case study of the opium economy in North Eastern Afghanistan.' In: Noelle-Karimi, C and Schetter, C and Schlagintweit,, R, (eds.), Afghanistan - A country without a state? IKO-Verlag (Germany), pp. 139-160.
Articles
Goodhand, Jonathan (2010) 'Stabilizing a Victor’s Peace? Humanitarian action and reconstruction in eastern Sri Lanka.' Disasters, 34 (3). pp. 342-367.
Walton, Oliver and Goodhand, Jonathan (2009) 'The Limits of Liberal Peacebuilding: International Engagement in the Sri Lankan Peace Process.' Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, 3 (3). (Forthcoming)
Goodhand, Jonathan and Klem, B. and Korf, B. (2009) 'Religion, conflict and boundary politics in Sri Lanka’s east.' The European Journal of Development Research, 21 (5). pp. 679-698.
Goodhand, Jonathan and Sedra, M. (2009) 'Who owns the peace? Aid, reconstruction and peacebuilding in Afghanistan.' Disasters, 10 (4).
Goodhand, Jonathan (2008) 'Corrupting or Consolidating the Peace? The Drugs Economy and Post Conflict Peacebuilding in Afghanistan.' International Peacekeeping, 15 (3). pp. 405-423.
Goodhand, Jonathan and Sedra, M. (2007) 'Bribes or Bargains? Peace Conditionalities and ‘Post Conflict’ Reconstruction in Afghanistan.' International Peacekeeping, 14 (1). pp. 41-61.
Goodhand, Jonathan (2005) 'Frontiers & Wars: The Opium Economy in Afganistan'.' Journal of Agrarian Change, 5:2 . 191 - 216.
Goodhand, Jonathan and n/a, (2005) 'Bringing the borderlands back in: A Commentary on 'Selfish Determination'.' Ethnopolitics, 4:1 . 94 - 97.
Goodhand, Jonathan (2004) 'From war economy to peace economy? Reconstruction and statebuilding in Afghanistan.' Journal of International Affairs, Special Edition on International Institutions and Justice, 58 (1). pp. 155-174.
Goodhand, Jonathan (2003) 'Enduring Disorder and and Persistent Poverty. A Review of the Linkages between War and Chronic Poverty.' World Development, 31 (3). pp. 629-646.
Goodhand, Jonathan and Cramer, Christopher (2002) 'Try Again, Fail Again, Fail Better? War, the State, and the 'Post-Conflict' Challenge in Afghanistan.' Development and Change, 33 (5). pp. 885-909.
Goodhand, Jonathan (2002) 'Aiding Violence or Building Peace? The Role of International Aid in Afghanistan.' Third World Quarterly, 23 (5). pp. 837-59.
Conference or Workshop Items
Goodhand, Jonathan (2005) Post Tsunami Asia: Early Warning, Relief, Reconstruction & Peace Process' - The Tsunami Asia & the Sri Lankan Peace Process. In: UNSPECIFIED.
Other
Goodhand, Jonathan and Vaux, T and Walker, R (2002) 'Conducting Conflict Assessments: Guidance Notes.' London: Department for International Development.
