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Overview

Jonathan Goodhand is affiliated with the School of Oriental and African Studies in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the social sciences, with a concentration on sociology and political science, political science and international relations, general economics, econometrics and finance, development, and clinical psychology.

The scientist's recent publications include:

  • Beyond the narco frontier; rethinking an imaginary of the margins, 2021, International Journal of Drug Policy
  • The Pat Jasan drug eradication social movement in Northern Myanmar, part one: Origins & reactions, 2021, International Journal of Drug Policy
  • Critical policy frontiers: The drugs-development-peacebuilding trilemma, 2021, International Journal of Drug Policy
  • Marginal gains: borderland dynamics, political settlements, and shifting centre-periphery relations in post-war Nepal, 2021, Contemporary South Asia
  • (Re)making the margins: Frontier assemblages and brokerage in Hambantota, Sri Lanka, 2022, Journal of International Development

Publication venues frequently featuring their work include:

  • International Journal of Drug Policy
  • The Journal of Peasant Studies
  • Journal of International Development
  • Contemporary South Asia
  • Third World Quarterly

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Jonathan Goodhand are:

  • Patrick Meehan
  • Oliver Walton
  • Jasmine Bhatia
  • Maziyar Ghiabi
  • Francisco Gutiérrez Sanín

Their main research topics focus on:

  • Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography
  • Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance
  • Cambodian History and Society
  • Natural Resources and Economic Development
  • Peacebuilding and International Security
  • Political Conflict and Governance
  • International Development and Aid

Best Publications

  • War Economies in a Regional Context: Challenges of Transformation

    Michael C. Pugh;Neil Cooper;Jonathan Goodhand

  • From wars to complex political emergencies: Understanding conflict and peace-building in the new world disorder

    Jonathan Goodhand

  • Aiding Peace?: The Role of Ngos in Armed Conflict

    Jonathan Goodhand

  • Corrupting or Consolidating the Peace? The Drugs Economy and Post Conflict Peacebuilding in Afghanistan

    Jonathan Goodhand

  • Try Again, Fail Again, Fail Better? War, the State, and the 'Post-Conflict' Challenge in Afghanistan

    Christopher Cramer;Jonathan Goodhand

  • Violent Conflict, Poverty and Chronic Poverty

    Jonathan Goodhand

  • Enduring Disorder and Persistent Poverty: A Review of the Linkages Between War and Chronic Poverty

    Jonathan Goodhand

  • Frontiers and Wars: the Opium Economy in Afghanistan

    Jonathan Goodhand

  • Aiding violence or building peace? The role of international aid in Afghanistan

    Jonathan Goodhand

  • Social capital and the political economy of violence: a case study of Sri Lanka.

    Jonathan Goodhand;David Hulme;Nick Lewer

  • Who owns the peace? Aid, reconstruction, and peacebuilding in Afghanistan

    Jonathan Goodhand;Mark Sedra

  • Sri Lanka: NGOS and peace-building in complex political emergencies

    Jonathan Goodhand

  • From war economy to peace economy? Reconstruction and statebuilding in Afghanistan

    Jonathan Goodhand

  • Stabilising a victor's peace? Humanitarian action and reconstruction in eastern Sri Lanka

    Jonathan Goodhand

  • Aid, Conflict and Peacebuilding in Sri Lanka, 2000 - 2005

    Jonathan Goodhand;Bart Klem

  • The Limits of Liberal Peacebuilding? International Engagement in the Sri Lankan Peace Process

    Jonathan Goodhand;Oliver Walton

  • Bribes or Bargains? Peace Conditionalities and ‘Post-Conflict’ Reconstruction in Afghanistan

    Jonathan Goodhand;Mark Sedra

  • From holy war to opium war? A case study of the opium economy in north-eastern Afghanistan.

    Jonathan Goodhand

  • Pawns of peace. Evaluation of Norwegian peace efforts in Sri Lanka, 1997-2009

    Gunnar M. Sørbø;Jonathan Goodhand;Bart Klem;Ada Elisabeth Nissen

  • Conducting Conflict Assessments: Guidance Notes

    Jonathan Goodhand;T Vaux;R Walker

  • Checkpoint, Temple, Church and Mosque: A Collaborative Ethnography of War and Peace

    Jonathan Spencer;Jonathan Goodhand;Shahul Hasbullah;Bart Klem

  • Stabilising a victor's peace? Humanitarian action and reconstruction in eastern

    Sri Lanka;Jonathan Goodhand

Frequent Co-Authors

Benedikt Korf
Benedikt Korf University of Zurich
David Hulme
David Hulme University of Manchester
Astri Suhrke
Astri Suhrke Christian Michelsen Institute

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