Department of Development Studies
Professor in Conflict and Development Studies
Academic Staff, Centre of Contemporary Central Asia and the Caucasus
Academic Staff, SOAS South Asia Institute
Centre on Conflict, Rights and Justice
Member
Centre for the Study of Pakistan
Academic Staff, Centre for the Study of Pakistan
Research Cluster Member
Research Cluster Member
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.
Professor Jonathan Goodhand Inaugural Lecture: Straddling the Line: Brokerage, drugs and conflict in the Afghan borderlands
Critical policy frontiers: The drugs-development-peacebuilding trilemma
Goodhand, Jonathan, Meehan, Patrick, Bhatia, Jasmine, Ghiabi, Maziyar and Gutierrez Sanin, Francisco, 2021, International Journal of Drug Policy (89), 103115
Battlefields of Method. Evaluating Norwegian peace efforts in Sri Lanka
Goodhand, Jonathan, Klem, Bart and Sorbo, Gunnar (2013). In: Andersen, Ole Winckler, (eds.), Bull, Beate, (eds.) and Kennedy-Chouane, Megan, (eds.), Evaluation Methodologies for Aid in Conflict. London: Routledge, pp 61-84
Stabilizing a Victor's Peace? Humanitarian Action and Reconstruction in Eastern Sri Lanka
Goodhand, Jonathan (2013). In: Muggah, Robert, (ed.), Stabilization Operations, Security and Development. States of Fragility. London: Routledge, pp 215-241
Drugs and (dis)order. The opium economy, political settlements and statebuilding in Afghanistan
Goodhand, Jonathan and Mansfield, David (2013). In: Schetter, Conrad, (ed.), Local Politics in Afghanistan. A Century of Intervention in the Social Order. London: Hurst, pp 211-243
Goodhand, Jonathan (2013). In: Korf, Benedikt, (eds.) and Raeymaekers, Timothy, (eds.), Violence on the Margins. States, Conflict, and Boderlands. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp 247-264
Hard science or waffly crap? Evidence-based policy versus policy-based evidence in the field of violent conflict
Cramer, Christopher and Goodhand, Jonathan (2011). In: Bayliss, Kate, (eds.), Fine, Ben, (eds.) and Van Waeyenberge, Elisa, (eds.), The Political Economy of Development. The World Bank, Neo-Liberalism and Development Reseearch. London: Pluto Press, pp 215-238
Corrupting or Consolidating the Peace? The Drugs Economy and Post Conflict Peacebuilding in Afghanistan
Goodhand, Jonathan (2011). In: Zaum, Dominik, (eds.) and Cheng, Christine, (eds.), Corruption and Post Conflict Peacebuilding: Selling the Peace?. London: Routledge, pp 144-161
Public versus private power: Non governmental organisations and international security
Goodhand, Jonathan and Walton, Oliver (2011). In: McKercher, Brian, (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Diplomacy and Statecraft. London: Routledge, pp 428-440
The illiberal consequences of liberal peacebuilding
Goodhand, Jonathan and Korf, Benedikt (2011). In: Goodhand, Jonathan, (eds.), Spencer, Jonathan, (eds.) and Korf, Benedikt, (eds.), Aid, conflict and peacebuilding in Sri Lanka. Caught in the Peace Trap'. London UK: Routledge, pp 1-15
War, Peace and the Places In Between: Why Borderlands are Central
Goodhand, Jonathan (2008). In: Pugh, Michael, (eds.), Cooper, Neil, (eds.) and Turner, Mandy, (eds.), Whose Peace? Critical Perspectives on the Political Economy of Peacebuilding. London: Palgrave, pp 225-244
Goodhand, Jonathan (2004). In: Pugh, M., (eds.), Cooper, Neil, (eds.) and Goodhand, Jonathan, (eds.), War Economies in a Regional Context: Challenges for Transformation. Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner Publishers, pp 45-91
Profits and Poverty: aid, livelihoods and conflict in Afghanistan
Goodhand, Jonathan (2003). In: Collinson, Sarah, (ed.), Power, livelihoods and conflict: case studies in political economy analysis for humanitarian action. London: ODI, Humanitarian Policy Group, pp 37-52
Cramer, Christopher and Goodhand, Jonathan (2003). In: Milliken, J, (ed.), State Failure, Collapse and Reconstruction: Issues and Responses. Oxford: Blackwell
Goodhand, Jonathan (2002). In: Kirkpatrick, Colin, (eds.), Clark, Ronald, (eds.) and Palidano, C., (eds.), Handbook on Development Policy and Management. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp 269-278
From holy war to opuim war?: A case study of the opium economy in North Eastern Afghanistan
Goodhand, Jonathan (2002). In: Noelle-Karimi, C, (eds.), Schetter, Conrad, (eds.) and Schlagintweit,, R, (eds.), Afghanistan - A country without a state?. Germany: IKO-Verlag, pp 139-160
Goodhand, Jonathan (2002). In: Mekenkamp, Monique, (eds.), van Tongeren, Paul, (eds.) and van de Veen, Hans, (eds.), Searching for Peace in Europe and Eurasia: An Overview of Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding Activities. Boulder, Co: Lynne Reinner (USA), pp 109-140
