Externer Doktorand

Forschungsschwerpunkte
Postwar Peace-/Statebuilding, Local Ownership, Multi-stakeholder Interaction, Human Rights, Conflict Analysis & Mediation, Western Balkans

Kontakt
CORE
Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy
Beim Schlump 83
20144 Hamburg

Lebenslauf
Jens Narten studierte Politikwissenschaft, Sozialwissenschaften und Humanitäres Völkerrecht in Colorado/USA, Hannover, Bochum und Uppsala/Schweden mit den Abschlüssen BA (1997), Diplom-Sozialwissenschaftler (1999) und MA Humanitarian Assistance (2000). Von 2001-2004 arbeitete er, sekundiert vom Auswärtigen Amt, in der OSZE-Mission im Kosovo als Senior Human Rights Officer und HR Training Co-ordinator. In Rahmen von Lehraufträgen leitete er Seminarveranstaltungen an den Universitäten

Prishtina/Kosovo, Hannover und Marburg zu den Themen „Human Rights and International Organisations“ und „Conflict Resolution: Applied Methods and Skills“. Seit November 2004 ist er als Doktorand am Institut für Friedensforschung und Sicherheitspolitik / Zentrum für OSZE-Forschung in Hamburg tätig und erhielt dafür ein zweijähriges Forschungsstipendium der Deutschen Stiftung Friedensforschung.

Er ist Teilnehmer der Research Partnership on Postwar State-Building (RPPS) und Autor im Projekt External Democracy Promotion in Post-Conflict States sowie Er ist Teilnehmer am EU-Forschungsprojekt Multi-stakeholder Partnerships in Post-conflict.

Laufendes Projekt
Peacebuilding-Dynamiken und das Ringen um Local Ownership in Nachkriegs-Kosovo.

Sprachen
Deutsch, Englisch, Spanisch, Albanisch

Ausgewählte Veröffentlichungen

• Peacebuilding is Interaction. Explaining the Outcomes of Postwar Democratic Transitions, paper presented at the 2009 APSA Annual Meeting in Toronto, 5 September 2009, in co-authorship with C. Zürcher.
  http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1451596
• Assessing Kosovo’s Postwar Democratization: Between External Imposition and Local Self-Government, in: Taiwan Journal of Democracy, vol. 5, no. 1, July 2009, pp. 127-162.
  http://www.tfd.org.tw/docs/dj0501/127-162-Jens%20Narten.pdf
• Co-opting Multi-stakeholder Security Provisions. “Demobilization by Rearmament”–The Dual Conversion of the KLA into Kosovo’s New Army, paper presented at the 2009 ISA Annual Convention in New York, 15 February 2009.
  http://www.ifsh.de/pdf/aktuelles/ISAPaper2009Narten.pdf
• Dilemmas of Promoting Local Ownership: The Case of Postwar Kosovo, in: R. Paris/T. Sisk (eds), The Dilemmas of Statebuilding. Confronting the Contradictions of Postwar Peace Operations, London 2008.
  http://www.routledgepolitics.com/books/The-Dilemmas-of-Statebuilding-isbn9780415776295
• Post-Conflict Peacebuilding and Local Ownership: Dynamics of External-Local Interaction in Kosovo under United Nations Administration, in: Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, vol. 2, no. 3, 2008, pp. 369-390.
  http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=
  a905595675~db=all~jumptype=rss
• Evaluating International Influences on Democratic Development. Case Study Report on Kosovo, Consultancy Paper to the Research Project of the Freie Universität Berlin: Evaluating International Influences on Democratic Development (Volume 2: Post-Conflict Countries), September 2008.
  http://www.polwiss.fu-berlin.de/people/zuercher/paper/
  casestudymemos/nartenkosovo.pdf
• Kosovo auf dem Weg in die (Un-)Abhängigkeit? Politische, gesellschaftliche und wirtschaftliche Aspekte und die Rolle der internationalen Gemeinschaft. in: Hamburger Informationen zur Friedensforschung und Sicherheitspolitik/Hamburg Information on Peace Research and Security Policy, No. 42 (Zukunft des Kosovo/The Future of Kosovo), November 2007, pp. 5-9.
  http://www.ifsh.de/pdf/publikationen/hifs/HI42.pdf
• Post-conflict Peacebuilding & Local Ownership: A Case Study on External-local Dynamics in Kosovo under UN Interim Administration. Paper at the International Studies Association Conference in Chicago, 3 March 2007, 16 pp.
  http://www.allacademic.com//meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/1/8/1/5/4/
  pages181546/p181546-1.php
• In Need of Self-Reflection: Peacebuilding in Post-War Kosovo from a Systems-Analytical Perspective. In: The Whitehead Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations, vol. VIII, no. 1, Winter/Spring 2007, forthcoming, 13 pp.
  www.journalofdiplomacy.org
• Kosovo before Status Determination: Peacebuilding Unfinished, Dilemmas Unresolved. In: Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy Hamburg: Annual Report 2006, forthcoming, Hamburg, 6 pp.
  www.ifsh.de/IFSH/profil/jahresberichte
• Der Kosovo vor der Entscheidung über seinen künftigen Status: Unvollständiger Friedensaufbau, ungelöste Dilemmata. In: Institut für Friedensforschung und Sicherheitspolitik Hamburg: Jahresbericht 2006, im Erscheinen, Hamburg, 6 pp.
  http://www.ifsh.de/pdf/jahrbuch/JB2006en.pdf
• Building local institutions and parliamentarianism in post-war Kosovo: A review of joint efforts by the UN and the OSCE from 1999 to 2006. In: Helsinki Monitor, volume 17, 2006, No. 2., ISSN 0925-0972, pp. 144-159.
  http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/mnp/hels/2006/00000017/00000002/
  art00005;jsessionid=1oawx82ftvp3c.alice?format=print
• Options for A General OSCE Human Dimension Monitoring Instrument. CORE Policy Paper on behalf of the Swiss Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Centre for OSCE Research at the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy: Hamburg, June 2006, 44 pp.
  http://www.core-Hamburg.de/documents/CORE_Policy_Paper_on_OSCE_HD_Monitoring_Aug_2006.pdf
• The Human Dimension: The OSCE's Approach to Human Rights. In: Malte Brosig: Human Rights in Europe - A Fragmented Regime? Peter Lang Publishers: Frankfurt/Main, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, 2006, ISBN 3-631-54458-8 / US-ISBN 0-8204-7792-3, pp. 102-119.
  http://ftp://maltebrosig.net/narten.PDF
• Human Rights and the Sustainable Civilisation of Conflict – Peace Efforts of the UN, OSCE, EU and NATO in Post-War Kosovo. Paper at ICCEES VII World Congress, 30 July 2005, Berlin, abstract in: International Council for Central and East European Studies/ICCEES VII World Congress (ed.): Europe - Our Common Home? Abstracts 2005, BWV: Berlin, ISBN 3-8305-1045-4, 287 pp.
  Abstract
• Promoting Democracy by Means of International Election Observation: The ODIHR Election Observation Mission to Albania (co-authorship with Juliane Markard). In: Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy Hamburg: OSCE-Yearbook 2005, Yearbook on the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe. Nomos: Baden-Baden 2006, ISBN 3-8329-1552-4, pp. 231-242.
  http://www.core-hamburg.de/documents/yearbook/english/05/MarkardNarten-en.pdf
• Demokratieförderung durch internationale Wahlbeobachtung: die Wahlbeobachtungsmission des BDIMR in Albanien (zusammen mit Juliane Markard). In: Institut für Friedensforschung und Sicherheitspolitik Hamburg: OSZE-Jahrbuch 2005, Jahrbuch zur Organisation für Sicherheit und Zusammenarbeit in Europa. Nomos: Baden-Baden 2006, ISBN 3-8329-2375-6, pp. 259-270.
  http://www.core-hamburg.de/documents/jahrbuch/05/MarkardNarten-dt.pdf
• Menschenrechtsschutz in internationalen Mandatsgebieten und seine strukturellen Widersprüche am Beispiel des Kosovo [The protection of human rights in territories under international mandate and its structural contradictions with special reference to Kosovo]. In: The Journal of International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict/Humanitäres Völkerrecht - Informationsschriften, volume 17, 2004, No. 3, ISSN 0937-5414, pp. 144-151.
  http://www.ifhv.rub.de/publications/huvi.html

Presentations & Lectures

• Presentation at the Führungsakademie der Bundeswehr (FüAk) “Kosovo im Umbruch: Politische Entwicklungen im Kosovo vor und nach der Unabhängigkeitserklärung [Kosovo in Transition: Political Developments in Kosovo Before and After the Declaration of Independence]“, Hamburg, 16 December 2008.
• Presentation titled "UN in Kosovo: From Autocracy into the Prisoner Dilemma" at the 2nd Scientific Symposium on European Studies of the Jean Monnet European Centre of Excellence "Kosovo: Independently into Dependency?" at the Leibniz University at Hannover, 27 June 2008.
• Lecture on the “Political Dimension of Journalism” at the Slavic University of Baku/Azerbaijan, 13 May 2008.
• Presentation of a case study on Kosovo as a part of the research project “Evaluating International Influences on Democratic Development” of the Freie Universität Berlin and the Stanford University, Berlin, 15 December 2007.
• Presentation of the research paper ‘Kosovo auf dem Weg in die (Un-)Abhängigkeit? Politische, gesellschaftliche und wirtschaftliche Aspekte und die Rolle der internationalen Gemeinschaft’ at the IFSH/DGVN panel discussion ‘Zukunft des Kosovo’, Berlin, 8 October 2007.
• Lecture on ‘Conflict Prevention & Regulation through Field Operations (FOPS) and the HCNM: Overview Western Balkans – Kosovo’ for the benefit of the participants in CORE’s ‘OSCE-Related Training Course for Officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan’, Hamburg, 26 September 2007.
• Lecture on ‘Peacebuilding and Local Ownership: The Case of Kosovo’, European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation, Venice, 12 December 2006.
• Presentation of CORE Policy Paper on ‘Options For A General OSCE Human Dimension Monitoring Instrument’ on behalf of the Swiss Ministry of Foreign Affairs at the OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting, Warsaw, 12 October 2006.
• Presentation of the Working Paper on ‘Dilemmas of Promoting Local Ownership: State-building in Postwar Kosovo’ at the Working Meeting of the Research Partnership on Postwar Statebuilding, Boulder/USA, 6-7 July 2006.
• Presentation on ‘Perspektiven der Friedensentwicklung auf dem Balkan [Peace Perspectives on the Balkans]’. Socialdemocrats’ Working Group on International Politics [Arbeitskreis Internationale Politik], Hamburg, 18 May 2006.
• Workshop on ‘Applied Conflict Analysis and Resolution Techniques: Mediation and Facilitation’. Carlo Schmid Program Summer Seminar 2005: Krieg und Konflikt [War and Conflict], Chorin/Berlin, 21 July 2005.
• Seminal Course on ‘Conflict Resolution: Methods and Skills in International Organisations’, Centre for Conflict Studies at the Philipps University of Marburg, summer 2005.
• Presentation on ‘Human Rights Protection and Its Contradictions in Peacekeeping Areas: Lessons Learnt From Kosovo’, International IPOSS conference: Human Rights in Europe. A Fragmented Regime?. In co-operation with Amnesty International/German Institute for Human Rights, Hannover, 17 September 2004.
• Seminal Course on ‘Conflict Resolution: Methods and Skills in International Organisations’ Institute for Political Science at the University of Hannover, winter 2004/2005.
• Seminal Course on ‘International Organisations and Human Rights: The case of Kosovo/Kosova’ Institute for Political Science at the University of Hannover, summer 2004.
• Seminal Courses on ‘Human Rights, Democracy and Rule of Law’, Department for Political Science and Public Administration at the University of Prishtina/Kosovo, winter 2002/2003 and summer 2003.
• Seminal Courses on ‘Conflict Theories and Institutional Peace-Building’, Department for Political Science and Public Administration at the University of Prishtina/Kosovo, winter 2002/2003 and summer 2003.
• Lecture on ‘Human Rights Monitoring in Kosovo’, Network On Humanitarian Assistance European Master Program in Humanitarian Assistance at the Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict at the Ruhr University Bochum, November 2002.