Kathleen M. Jennings

Researcher
M.Phil in Politics, St. Antony's College, University of Oxford

E-mail: kathleen.jennings@fafo.no

Tel: +4722088620

Work areas:
Gender; human security; international policy interventions into conflict and post-conflict areas (with a particular focus on UN peacekeeping and peacebuilding operations); security privatisation and private military companies; economic actors in conflict; West Africa

Current projects

Peacekeeping, Poverty, and Development: Towards an Understanding of the Gendered Peacekeeping Economies in the DRC, Sudan, and Liberia, (PhD project).

Women’s Participation in UN peacekeeping

Past projects

Sexual exploitation and abuse in UN peace operations

MicroCon network project on gender and conflict

Gendering the political economy of post-conflict disarmament, demobilization and rehabilitation projects

Publications

Jennings, K.M. (2011)  Women’s participation in UN peacekeeping operations: agents of change or stranded symbols?, NOREF Report, Oslo: NOREF.

Bjørkhaug, Ingunn, Kathleen M. Jennings and Morten Bøås (2010), Mapping and assessment of national, bilateral and multilateral actors’ support to work against sexual based violence in the Great Lakes region in Africa. Norad Report 12/2010 Discussion

Jennings, K.M. (2010) “Unintended Consequences of Intimacy: Political Economies of Peacekeeping and Sex Tourism”, International Peacekeeping, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 229-243.

Jennings, K.M. (2009) “The political economy of DDR in Liberia: a gendered critique”, Conflict, Security & Development, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 475-494.

Jennings, K.M. and V. Nikolic-Ristanovic (2009) UN peacekeeping economies and local sex industries: connections and implications, MicroCon Working Paper.

Jennings, K.M. (2009) Gender and Post-Conflict Statebuilding: A Synthesis, New York: Program on States and Security, Graduate Center at CUNY.

Jennings, K. (2008), Protecting whom? Approaches to sexual exploitation and abuse in UN peacekeeping operations. Fafo-report 2008:36

Jennings, K.M. (2008) “Securitizing the Economy of Reintegration in Liberia”, in Michael Pugh, Neil Cooper and Mandy Turner (eds) Whose Peace? Critical Perspectives on the Political Economy of Peacebuilding, Basingstoke: Palgrave, pp.157-170.

Bøås, M. and K.M. Jennings (2008) “War in the Great Lakes Region and Ugandan Conflict Zones: Micro-regionalisms and Meta-narratives”, in Fredrik Söderbaum and Ian Taylor (eds) Afro-Regions: The Dynamics of Cross-border Micro-regionalisms in Africa, Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet.

Jennings, K. (2008) “Unclear ends, unclear means: Reintegration in postwar societies – The Case of Liberia”, Global Governance, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 327-345.

Jennings, K. and A. Kaspersen (eds) (2008) ‘Integrated Missions Revisited: Policy and Practitioner Perspectives’, Special Issue of International Peacekeeping, vol. 14, no. 3.

Jennings, K. and A. Kaspersen (2008), ‘Introduction: Integration Revisited’, International Peacekeeping, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 443-452.

Jennings, K. and A. Kaspersen (2008), ‘Conclusion: Integration Going Forward’, International Peacekeeping, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 582-587.

Jennings, K. (2008) Seeing DDR from below: Challenges and dilemmas raised by the experiences of ex-combatants in Liberia, Fafo report 2008: 03, Oslo: Fafo.

Jennings, K. (2008) ‘The Political Economy of DDR in Liberia: A Gendered Critique’, Paper presented at the International Studies Association annual conference, 26-29 March, San Francisco, CA.

Bøås, M. and K. Jennings (2007) ‘“Failed States” and “State Failure”: Threats or Opportunities?’, Globalizations, vol. 4, no. 4, 475-485.

Jennings, K. (2007) “The Struggle to Satisfy: DDR Through the Eyes of Ex-Combatants in Liberia”, International Peacekeeping, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 1-15.

Bjørkhaug, I., M. Bøås, A. Hatløy and K.M. Jennings (2007) Returning to uncertainty? Addressing vulnerabilities in Northern Uganda, UNDP

Jennings, K. (2007) The War Zone as Social Space: Social Research in Conflict Zones. Fafo-report 2007:08

Jennings, K. (2006), Armed Services. Regulating the Private Military Industry. Fafo-report 531

Jennings, K. (2006), "Smekk på fingrene", Comment in Ny Tid, Vol. 54, No. 30 (4 August), pp. 32-33

Bøås, M., K. Jennings and T. Shaw (2006), "Dealing with Conflicts in Emergency Situations" in: Desai, V. and R. Potter, eds., Doing Development Research

Bøås, M. and K. Jennings (2005) "Insecurity and Development: The rhetoric of the 'failed' state", European Journal for Development Research

Taylor, M. and K. Jennings (2005) In Search of Strategy: An Agenda for Applied Research on Transitions from Conflict, Fafo report 480, Oslo: Fafo

Jennings, K. and C. Ruge (2005) Killing many birds with as few stones possible: Integrating ERW and SALW actions with peacebuilding and development efforts, Commissioned paper submitted to the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research

Heimann, J. and K. Jennings (2005), "...A Long Way From the Top." Foreign Affairs

Jennings, K. (2004), 'Krigen mot narkotika' [The War Against Drugs], Dagbladet (April 20)

Taylor, M. (ed.), J. Aaser, A. Huser and K. Jennings (2004), The Next Generation of Policy Responses. Report of the expert consultation on conflict economies and development. Oslo, 4 November 2003. Economies of Conflict series. Fafo-report 436

Jennings, K. and W. Nash, Humanitarian Intervention Issue Brief. Council of Foreign Relations

Jennings, K. and W. Nash (2001), "Conflict Prevention as a Tool of Foreign Policy: New Approaches to Combat Crisis Situations in the Post-Cold War Era." Voices: Sasakawa Peace Foundation Newsletter, No. 29, Vol. 1

Kathleen M. Jennings – complete CV