Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh, PhD is a university professor, researcher, and international consultant specializing in human security, peacebuilding, counter-terrorism, and radicalization, with geographic specialization in Central Asia and Afghanistan. In addition to the course she teaches during the Fall at the Center for Security Studies of the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, she has been teaching Master's Level courses on Human Security since 2004, a course on Understanding and Responding to Radicalization within the Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA) at Sciences Po Paris (Institute of Political Studies) since 2018 and has been running a Summer School Program on Human Security at Sciences Po since 2014. Before the Sciences Po, Tadjbakhsh taught at Columbia University (New York) as an adjunct professor and has been a visiting professor at universities in Tehran, Kabul, New Delhi, Pretoria, Moscow, and Dushanbe.
She is the author of dozens of publications, including the most recent ones, A Rock Between Hard Places; Afghanistan in its Regional Security Complexes (with Kristian P. Harpviken) (Oxford University Press/Hurst Publishers, 2016), Iran and its Relationship with Afghanistan After the Nuclear Deal (with Mohammed Fazeli), (PRIO July 2016), Regional Responses to Radicalization in Afghanistan: Obstacles, Opportunities and an Agenda for Action (PRIO, March 2016), Radicalization in the Heart of Asia Countries (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan, Department of Regional Cooperation, Secretariat of the Istanbul Process, June 2015); Strangers Across the Amu River: Perceptions of Communities Along the Afghan-Tajik borders ( SIPRI and OSF, October 2015) and Human Security Twenty Years On, Norwegian Peacebuilding Resource Center Paper, Oslo: Norway, 26 June 2014. She was the editor of Rethinking the Liberal Peace: External Models and Local Alternatives (Routledge 2011) and author of Anuradha Chenoy of Human Security: Concepts and Implications (Routledge, 2007).