Robert S. Jenkins [email protected] Academic Appointment Professor of Political Science, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, The City University of New York (2008-present) Associate Director, Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, Graduate Center, CUNY (2008-present) Recent Activities During 2006-2011, research and consultancy work primarily in two areas: The UN and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding – involving a number of interrelated projects: Research project on the UN Peacebuilding Commission: Monograph (Peacebuilding: From Concept to Commission, Routledge, in press); Commissioned papers for LSE, Carnegie Corporation and Government of Canada. Senior consultant, UN Peacebuilding Support Office, Feb-Oct 2010: Lead author, Report of the Secretary General on Women’s Participation in Peacebuilding (S/2010/466); subject of Security Council Open Debate. Consultant for UN interagency network convening June 2009 High-Level Colloquium on Sexual Violence & Mediation; co-chaired Right to Redress working group; developed draft guidance material for mediators; coauthored w/AM Goetz, ―Addressing Sexual Violence in Internationally Mediated Peace Negotiations,‖ International Peacekeeping, vol 17, April 2010 The Politics of Institutionalizing Rights in India – centering on three main projects: Co-director, ‗Rights-Based Development and India‘s National Rural Employment Guarantee Act‘ (funded, 2008-2011, UK Economic & Social Research Council): examines use of rights (to information, to work) in design of world‘s largest employment program, and constraints on the exercise of these rights. Co-authored monograph in process. Co-director, ‗The Politics of India‘s Special Economic Zones‘ (funded 2007-2010, Ford Foundation): examines assertion of rights (to property, to due process, to democratic participation) by people affected by the establishment of these highly deregulated export-processing enclaves. Co-edited volume in process. Continued research on ‗Right to Information and Anti-Corruption Activism in India‘, including articles for the Journal of Democracy and consultancy reports and other publications for DFID, Oxfam, and the World Bank (see Research Grants, Consulting, and Publications, below). Previous Positions 2001-2008 Professor of Political Science, University of London (UK), 2001-2008 1995-2001 Lecturer (Assistant Professor), Department of Politics and Sociology, Birkbeck College, London, 1995-2001 Academic Fellowships Research Associate (non-resident), Center for the Advanced Study of India, University of Pennsylvania (2007-08) – researching the Politics of Special Economic Zones. Visiting Senior Fellow, Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, Graduate Center, City University of New York (2006-08) – researching the UN Peacebuilding Commission. Robert S. Jenkins Fellow, Dorothy & Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, Humanities & Social Science Research Division, New York Public Library (2005-06), researching movements for federal world government in the United States and India during the mid 20th Century. Visiting Professor, The Poverty Research Unit, School of African & Asian Studies, University of Sussex (2002-03) Visiting Fellow, Development Policy Research Centre, University of Cape Town (Spring 1997) Visiting Researcher, Institute of Development Studies, Jaipur, India (1993-94) Higher Education University of Sussex DPhil, Institute of Development Studies, 1997 Harvard College BA, Department of Government, 1989 Research Grants Ford Foundation (2008-2011) Economic and Social Research Council (UK) (2007-10) Economic and Social Research Council (UK) (2006-07) Globalization and Poverty Programme, Dept for International Development (UK) (2001-03) Social Science Research Unit, Dept for International Development (UK) (2002-03) Ford Foundation (1997-2000) Economic and Social Research Council (UK) (1998-2000) Department for International Development (UK) (1998-2000) British Academy (UK) and Centre Nationale de Recherché Scientifique (France) (1999-2002) Central Research Fund, University of London (UK) (1997) Nuffield Foundation (UK) (1996) British Council (UK) (1995-96) Overseas Development Administration (UK) (1993-97) Consulting Carnegie Corporation of New York/University of Ottawa (2010) Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Government of Canada (2009) World Bank, Communication for Governance and Accountability Program (2008-09) UNESCO ‗Global Monitoring Report 2009: Education For All‘ (2009) UNIFEM (2008-09) Oxfam, UK (2008), co-director, ‗Survey of Oxfam Priorities in the Areas of Local Governance and the ―Right to be Heard‖‘ Saferworld, UK (2008), consultant/author, Briefing Note on ‗Prevention, Peacebuilding, and the PBC‘ The Carter Center, Emory University (2008), panelist and contributor, ‗Promoting a Global Right to Information‘ UK DFID Policy Division(March-July 2007), World Bank Institute (2005-06), ‘Governance and Public Accountability’ Policy Division, UK DFID (Jan-Sept 2004), ‘Drivers of Policy and Institutional Change’ UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Ambassadorial Briefing (2003) World Bank/DFID (2002-03) United Nations Development Program (2001-02) Strategic Partnership with Africa (SPA) – World Bank-led donor consortium (2000-02) UK DFID (2000-01) Economist Intelligence Unit, India Country Report and India Country Forecast (1997-99) 2 of 7 Robert S. Jenkins Special Programme of Assistance (SPA) for Africa—World-Bank-led donor consortium (1998) US Department of State, Ambassadorial Briefing (1997) British Council and Institute of Development Studies, ‗Indian Administrative Service (IAS) Training Course‘ (1995-97, 1999, 2000, 2001) World Bank/Swedish International Development Agency (1995-96) Publications In process Peacebuilding: From Concept to Commission (Routledge) – monograph, in press (forthcoming Jan 2012) The Politics of India’s Special Economic Zones – co-edited volume, under review. Making Welfare Work: The Politics of India’s Right to Employment – co-authored volume, drafting in process. Monographs and Edited Collections Reinventing Accountability: Making Democracy Work for Human Development (London: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2005) – co- authored with AM Goetz Democratic Politics and Economic Reform in India (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999) – sole-authored Reassessing the Commonwealth (London: Royal Institute of International Affairs/Chatham House, 1997) – sole-authored Where Development Meets History, Special Issue (44:1) of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics (Taylor & Francis, 2006) – guest editor Regional Reflections: Comparing Politics Across India’s States (Oxford University Press, 2004) – editor The Politics of India’s Next Generation of Economic Reforms, Special Issue of India Review (Washington, DC), vol. 3, no. 2 (2004) – co-edited with Sunil Khilnani. Articles and Working Papers (co-authored with AM Goetz), ―Addressing Sexual Violence in Internationally Mediated Peace Negotiations,‖ International Peacekeeping, vol 17, April 2010 ‗Access to Information and Pro-Poor Development: Lessons from Two Cases in India,‘ Working Paper (Atlanta, GA: The Carter Center, February 2008) ‗Organizational Change and Institutional Survival: The Case of the U.N. Peacebuilding Commission,‘ Seton Hall Law Review, 38:4 (2008), pp. 1327-1364. ‗Making the Most of the UN Peacebuilding Commission,‘ Briefing Note for Saferworld UK (London) for UK Parliamentary Hearing, May 2008 ‗The UN Peacebuilding Commission and the Dissemination of International Norms,‘ Working Paper No. 38, Crisis States Programme, LSE (June 2008) – available at http://www.crisisstates.com/publications/phase2papers.htm ‗India‘s Unlikely Democracy: Civil Society Versus Corruption,‘ Journal of Democracy, vol. 18, no. 2 (April 2007), pp. 55-69; reprinted in Sumit Ganguly, Larry Diamond, and Marc F. Plattner (eds), The State of India’s Democracy (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007), pp. 161-75. ‗Democracy, Development and India‘s Struggle Against Corruption,‘ Public Policy Research (Blackwell Publishers/Institute of Public Policy Research), vol. 13, no. 3 (Sept-Dec 2006), pp. 155-163. 3 of 7 Robert S. Jenkins ‗Collateral Benefit: The Iraq War and the Legitimacy of International Trusteeship,‘ Dissent, Spring 2006, pp. 72-75. ‗Toward a Networked Aid Structure: Why Development Assistance Should be Routed Through Transnational Networks of Government Officials from Donor and Recipient Countries,‘ Working Paper, Workshop on Politics and the New Aid Modalities, Columbia University, January 2006. ‗Reservation Politics in Rajasthan,‘ Working Paper, Crisis States Programme, LSE, December 2004. ‗Labor Policy and the Second Generation of Economic Reform in India,‘ India Review, vol. 3, no. 2 (November 2004), pp. 333-363. ‗The Limits to the Constituent Diplomacy Paradigm: India‘s States and the Making of Foreign Economic Policy,‘ Publius: The Journal of Federalism, vol. 33, no. 4 (Fall 2003), pp. 63-81. ‗How Federalism Influences India‘s Domestic Politics of WTO Engagement (And Is Itself Affected in the Process),‘ Asian Survey (University of California Press), vol. 43, no. 4 (2003), pp. 598-621. ‗International Development Institutions and National Economic Contexts: Neoliberalism Encounters Indigenous Political Traditions,‘ Economy and Society, vol. 32, no. 4 (2003), pp. 584-610. ‗Institutionalization and Malawi‘s PRSP‘ [co-authored with M Tsoka], Development Policy Review, vol. 21, no. 3 (2003), pp. 197-215. ‗India and the Trade-and-Labour-Standards-Controversy,‘ Daxiyangguo,