SABA GUL KHATTAK

SABA GUL KHATTAK

Executive Director, Sustainable Development Policy Institute

House 24, Street 37 # 3 UN Boulevard

F-7/1, Islamabad Diplomatic Enclave, G-5, Islamabad

++92-51-2652201 PO Box 2342, Islamabad, Pakistan

saba@sdpi.org ++92-51-2278134 / 2278136

EDUCATION

University of Hawaii, Manoa Ph.D, 1991 Political Science. Fields: Public Policy

and Comparative Politics. GPA 3.95

Areas of Interest: Intersection of Peace

Studies, Feminist Theory and Political

Theory, Nationalism and Violence
University of Hawaii, Manoa M.A., 1988 Political Science. GPA 3.95

International Relations and Comparative Politics

University of Peshawar, Pakistan M.A., 1983 International Relations. GPA 4

Comparative Foreign Policies,

International Law
University of Peshawar, Pakistan B.A., 1980 Political Science and Law (1st Div)


PROFESSIONAL/ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
2002 – Present Sustainable Development Executive Director and Senior

Policy Institute, Islamabad Research Fellow

1994 – 2002 Sustainable Development Deputy Director (1998) and Research

Policy Institute, Islamabad Fellow, Program: Gender

1993-1994 United States Information Service Senior Cultural Affairs Specialist

Islamabad, Pakistan
1992-1993 East-West Center, Hawaii Research Fellow, International

Relations Program
Spring 1992 University of Hawaii, Manoa Lecturer: Comparative Politics of

Developing Countries
1990-1991 University of Hawaii, Manoa Co-coordinator, Women’s Center

Fall 1988 University of Hawaii, Manoa Lecturer: Introduction to International

Relations

University of Peshawar, Pakistan Lecturer, Department of International
Relations. Courses taught: Foreign Policies of USA, USSR, China, India, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan; International Law; International Economic Relations.
1986-1991 East West Center, Hawaii Participant, International Relations

Program

Visiting Faculty Positions:
2000-present Area Study Center for North Served on M.Phil Commitees

and South America, Quaid e Azam

University, Islamabad.
1997-2001 Regional Center for Strategic Annual Winter Workshop on

Studies, Colombo, Sri Lanka. Sources of Insecurity in South Asia.

1996-1999 ASR Institute of Women’s Annual Course on Women’s Studies.

Studies, Lahore, Pakistan.

PUBLICATIONS (including works in press)

Book:

With Shahrukh Rafi Khan and Sajid Kazmi, Hazardous Home-based Work: A Story of Multi Tiered Exploitation Karachi: Oxford University Press 2005

This book received the Akhter Hamid Khan Award for the best book in Social Sciences in Pakistan in September 2005.

Edited Volumes

South Asian Refugee Watch (SARWATCH). Guest-edited special issue on Afghan refugees, 2005

As guest editor of this issue with four major articles, two book reviews and an introduction, I drafted the call for papers, and was responsible for communication with the authors, providing substantive comments and feedback to the authors, and liaison with the publishers.

(Work in Progress):

Saba Gul Khattak and Shaheen Sardar Ali (Eds), Tentative Title: The Rise of Political Islam in Pakistan: Impacts on the Marginalized

This edited volume includes 12 articles looking at the rise and impact of the War on Terror and its connections with the rise of neo-conservative religious policies and politics in Pakistan in general and impact upon women’s status and lived experience in the North West Frontier Province specifically. My co-editor and I have provided substantive comments on each article. I wrote the book proposal and raised the funds to bring the contributors together for two workshops to discuss each chapter. Expected date of manuscript completion: December 2006. Possible Publishers: Vanguard (Pakistan); Zed Books (London, UK).


Journal Articles:
Khattak, S.G. “Twenty-five years of refugee camps: Afghan women’s rights and survival” in

Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, University of Chicago Press, Spring 2007

Khattak, S.G. “Adversarial Discourses, Analogous Objectives: Controlling Afghan Women” in Cultural Dynamics, 16(2), 2004.

Khattak, S.G. “Insecurity: Afghan refugee camps and politics in Pakistan” in the Journal of Critical Asian Studies, June 2003, New York.

Khattak, S.G. “Afghan women: Bombed to be liberated?” in Middle East Report, Spring 2002
Khattak, S.G. “Home as space and home as place: Afghan women’s experiences of conflict” in Development, 45:1, March 2002.
Khattak, S.G. "The Repurcussions of Nuclearization upon Pakistani Women" in Development,

Volume 42, Number 2 (June 1999).

Khattak, S.G. "Security discourses and the state in Pakistan" in Alternatives, Vol. 21, No. 3,

July-September 1996.

Book Chapters (International/National)
Khattak, S.G. “Violence and the Centrality of Home: Women’s experience of insecurity in the Karachi conflict” in Neelum Hussain and Samiya Mumtaz (eds) Colonial roots and post-colonial identities, Lahore: Simorgh Publications, forthcoming.

Khattak, S.G. (2006) “Inconvenient Facts: Women’s political representation and Military Regimes in

Pakistan,” in Transforming Institutions of Power: Towards Gender-responsive Governance,

Islamabad, Rozan.

Khattak, S.G. (2005) “In/Security: Afghan Women Refugees” in Farah Faizal and Swarna

Rajgopalan (Eds),Women, Security, South Asia: A clearing in the thicket, New Delhi: Sage

Publications, 2005.

Khattak, S.G. (2004) “Insecurity/Security: Afghan Refugees and Politics in Pakistan” in Imtiaz

Ahmed, Abhijit Dasgupta and Kathinka Sinho-Kerkhoff (Eds), State, Society and

Displaced People in South Asia, Dhaka: The University Press Limited.
Khattak, S.G (2003) “Women, Work and Empowerment” in SDPI Staff (Eds.), Sustainable

Development and Southern Realities: Past and Future in South Asia. Islamabad &

Karachi, Pakistan: Sustainable Development Policy Institute & City Press.
Khattak, S.G. (2002)“Violence and Home: Afghan women’s experience of displacement” in Craig

Calhoun and Paul Price and Ashley Timmer (eds), Understanding September 11, New

York: The New Press.

Khattak, S.G. (2001) “Questioning nuclear and human security discourses in Pakistan” in Navnita

Chadha Behera (ed) State, People and Security: The South Asian Context, New Delhi: Har-

Anand Publishers.

Khattak, S.G. (2001) “Subcontracted work and gender issues: The case of Pakistan” in Radhika

Balakrishnan (ed) The Hidden Assembly Line: Gender Dynamics of Subcontracted Work in a

Global Economy, New York: Kumarian Press.

Khattak, S.G. (2001) “Power configurations in public and private arenas: The women’s movement’s

response,” co-authored with Farzana Bari in Anita M. Weiss and S. Zulfiqar Gilani (eds)

Power and Civil Society in Pakistan, Karachi: Oxford University Press.


Khattak, S.G. (1999) "Gendered and Violent: Inscribing the military on the nation-state" in Rubina

Saigol and Neelam Hussain (eds) “Engendering the Nation-State," Simorgh Publications,

Lahore.
Khattak, S.G. (1998) "Linkage between internal and external dynamics of South Asian security" in

Moonis Ahmer (ed) Internal and External Dynamics of South Asian Security, Fazleesons

(Pvt) Ltd. Karachi,

Khattak, S.G. (1995) "Militarization, masculinity and identity in Pakistan—effects on women" in

Nighat Saeed Khan and Afiya Shehrbano Zia (eds) Unveiling the Issues, ASR Publications,

Lahore, Pakistan.

Khattak, S.G. (1994) "A reinterpretation of the state and statist discourse in Pakistan," in Nighat

Saeed Khan, Robina Saigol and Afiya Shehrbano Zia (eds) Locating the self. Perspectives on

women and multiple identities, ASR publications, Lahore, Pakistan.
Other Academic Publications
Khattak, S.G. (2005) “Policy Interventions for Women’s Economic Empowerment” policy brief included in

the chapter on gender, Pakistan Medium Term Development Goals, Planning Commission of Pakistan.

Khattak, S.G. (2002) “Women and the Centrality of Home: Women’s experience of the Karachi Conflict”

Working paper Series #73, Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI), Islamabad.

Khattak, S.G. (2002) Violence and home: Women’s experience of displacement” Working paper

Series # 72 Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI), Islamabad.
Khattak, S.G. (2001) Women’s work and empowerment issues in an era of economic liberalization: A case study of Pakistan’s urban manufacturing sector, co-authored with Asad Sayeed, PILER and SDPI.

Khattak, S.G. (2000) “Subcontracted Women Workers in the Global Economy: The case of Pakistan”

Co-authored with Asad Sayeed, Sustainable Development Policy Institute Monograph Series #15
Khattak, S.G. (1996) "Women in Local Government in Pakistan" Sustainable Development Policy

Institute Working Paper Series # 24

Khattak, S.G. & Nausheen Ahmed (1995) chapter entitled "Effects on women of national and

international armed conflict" for the Government of Pakistan National Report on Women,

presented at the UN Women's Conference at Beijing in September 1995.
Khattak, S.G. & Shaheen Sardar Ali (1993) "Domestic Servants and the Need for Legislation: The

Case of the NWFP," in the proceedings of the workshop on “Women and Employment

Legislation in Pakistan," held at Lahore, Pakistan, February 11-13, 1993, sponsored by the

British Council, Islamabad, Pakistan.



Khattak, S.G. and Chaudhry, L. (1992) Images of white women and Indian nationalism: Ambivalent representations in Shakespeare Wallah and Junoon. Literary Studies: East and West, 7, 121-133.

Khattak, S.G.(1991) "The Future of Democracy in Bangladesh" Current Affairs Notes, International Relations Program, East West Center.
Khattak, S.G. (1990) "Kashmir: Beyond Solution?" in Current Affairs Notes, International Relations Program, East West Center.

Khattak, S.G. (1989) “Dilemmas of Parliamentary Democracy in Pakistan” in Current Affairs Notes, International Relations Program, East West Center.

RESEARCH GRANTS AND AWARDS


IDRC, $ 27,000 for project workshop entitled, “Engaging with East Pakistan/Bangladesh 1971: Building a Field of Dialogue and Scholarship” jointly with the International Institute of Asian Studies (The Netherlands) for the purpose of producing an annotated bibliography and holding a workshop in January 2007.

IFAD and Action Aid, research grant of USD 100,000 for project entitled, “Women’s Right to Land in Pakistan,” to look at women’s legal entitlement, access and control over land in different geographical zones and provinces of Pakistan. April 2006-March 2008.

Heinrich Boll Foundation, Euro 40,000 for research project (with Ahmed Salim) entitled, “Re-writing History” with two components looking at the violence of 1947 and 1971 that focus on violence and its prevention through interfaith conflict and harmony, and in particular, examining the role of religious minorities in the Indian sub-continent. July 2006-March 2008
Ford Foundation and the Pakistan Environmental Project, USD 40,000 for a project entitled, “A study of internal conflict in Pakistan.” This project involved leading a team of young trainee researchers to understand different types of conflict in Pakistan and its impact upon people’s lives. December 2005-June 2006.

Akhtar Hameed Khan Award, Rs 50,000 for best book in social sciences in Pakistan by the Council of Social Sciences (COSS), Pakistan for the book entitled, “Hazardous Home-based Work: A story of multi-tiered exploitation” published by Oxford University Press, Pakistan. 2005. As authors we decided to donate the money to the communities with whom we worked.
Ford Foundation, New York: $170,000 research grant to establish a Program on Peace at SDPI. The Program consists of four components, including two I was responsible for. The first focused on the women’s movement and peace movement in Pakistan, and the second on the impact of different types of internal conflict upon people’s lives in Pakistan. September 2001-August 2003 extended to March 2006.

Social Sciences Research Council, New York: $12,000 research grant (with Lubna Chaudhry) for research collaboration in conflict zones for project entitled, “Constructions of Violence and Recovery of Alternatives: Partition and Memory in the Indian Subcontinent” September 2001-May 2002.
UNICEF, Rome: $32,000 for a research project entitled, “Hazardous Home-based Work: A Study of Women and Children.” 2000-2001
Ford Foundation, New York: $125,000 research grant for project entitled, “Women, Conflict and Security” September 1999-June 2001.
MacArthur Foundation Research and Writing Grant: Received USD 100,000 for the project entitled, “Women, Conflict and Security” in 1999.
Fellowship in South Asian Alternatives (FISAA): $ 2000 for a project on Ethnicity and Violence in South Asia August 1998-April 2000.
The Asia Foundation, Washington DC: $ 10,000 for project entitled “Subcontracting for Women Workers in the Global Economy,” a five country study looking at home-based work in India, Thailand, Pakistan, The Philippines and Sri Lanka. 1998-1999
Canadian International Aid Agency (CIDA): $ 50,000 grant (with Asad Sayeed) for a study entitled, “Impact of Structural Adjustment Policies upon Women Workers in Pakistan” April 1999-December 2000.

SOLICITED RESEARCH


Completed:
Monograph-length study entitled, “Gendered Human Security in South Asia,” study at the request of the Bangladesh Institute of International Strategic Studies (BIISS), Dhaka. 2004-2006

Report entitled, “The Future of Afghan Refugees in Pakistan” at the request of UNHCR Islamabad and Geneva offices. March-July 2005

Report entitled, “The Impact of Children’s Work on Education” at the request of the ILO, Islamabad office. August 2005 - April 2005.

“Inconvenient Facts: Women’s Political Representation and Military Regimes in Pakistan” at the request of the Center for the Study of Developing Societies, (CSDS) Delhi. 2005

“Indicators of Women’s Economic Empowerment” for the Planning Commission, Government of Pakistan, incorporated in the 5-year Medium Term Development Program. 2005
Rapid Assessment entitled, “Trafficking in Children for Labor and Sexual Exploitation in Pakistan,” at the request of the ILO, Pakistan office.2005

Short-term study entitled, “A Review of Campaigns on Violence Against Women in Pakistan” at the request of Oxfam, Islamabad (Pakistan) Office. June 2004
Short term study entitled, “Ending Violence Against Women with Special Reference to Honor Killings in Pakistan: A Literature Review” at the request of Oxfam, Islamabad Office, June 2004

Study entitled, “Gender (In)Justice: Honor Killings in Pakistan—A Review of Policy and Case Law” with Nausheen Ahmed, Kiran Ahmed and Kiran Habib in collaboration with the Christian Michelson Institute, Norway. 2003-4

Study entitled, “Household Food Economy Assessment of Shamshatoo Refugee Camp, NWFP, Pakistan” with the SDPI team and in partnership with the World Food Program (WFP) and UNHCR, Islamabad office, 2003.

Rapid Assessment entitled “Worst Forms of Child Labor: Ragpickers in Karachi, Lahore, Quetta and Peshawar,” with the SDPI team at the request of ILO, Pakistan office, 2003.
Study entitled, “Proposal to assess and devise strategies for the rehabilitation of refugee hosting areas in Balochistan and the NWFP” at the request of the UNHCR, Islamabad office, 2002.

Report entitled, “Impact of Structural Adjustment Policies upon Women Workers in Pakistan” with Asad Sayeed, 2002.

Study entitled, “Hazardous Home-based Work: A Story of Multi Tiered Exploitation” with Shahrukh Rafi Khan and Sajid Kazmi. (Oxford University Press Publication)
Study entitled, “Subcontracted Women Workers in the Global Economy: The case of Pakistan” co-authored with Asad Sayeed at the request of the Asia Foundation, Washington DC. 1999

Study entitled, “Perspectives on Corruption in Pakistan: A Pilot Study” co-authored with Saeed Shafqat and Shafi ur Rehman at the request of the United Nations Development Program, New York, 1999.

CONSULTANCY AND TRAINING EXPERIENCE

Training on “Preventing Violence Against Women” organized by Action Aid for the print media and community based organizations of the North West Frontier Province. My responsibility included a presentation on the intersections of the state, community and family in perpetuation of violence against women and strategies to address this violence. Peshawar, September 2006.


Assessment of women’s economic empowerment of the British Council’s Gender Empowerment Project (GEP) at the end of the program. May June 2006.
Training on Addressing Violence Against Women” organized by Aurat Foundation for its’ staff and partners in the North West Frontier Province. I was responsible for the session on the role of the state in preventing and exacerbating violence against women. May 2005.

“Women and fundraising: Dilemmas and solutions for women working in NGOs” presentation at the workshop/meeting entitled, Training for women’s economic skills promotion in South Asia: Afghanistan, India and Pakistan organized by the Department of Women’s Studies, San Diego State University, and funded by the Fred J. Hansen Institute for World Peace, in New Delhi, January 3-6, 2005

Co-trainer with Azra Talat Saeed and Karin A Siegmann on “Women, Development and Environment” organized by SDPI, September 21-23, 2004.
May-July 2004: Evaluation of SEPHIS Program at the request of the SEPHIS Steering Committee. Funded by the Research Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Netherlands, the evaluation was undertaken with an international team consisting of Ahmed C Bawa, (Higher Education Programme Officer Johannesburg Office, Ford Foundation) and Mamadou Diawara (Professor, Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Africa and the Institute for Historical Ethnology, Johann Wolgang Goethe University, Frankfurt).
Co-trainer with Lubna Nazir Chaudhry, Abid Suleri, Shaheen Rafi Khan, Haider Nizamani and Sajid Kazmi, “Training for young professionals on critical analysis of development” organized by SDPI, Islamabad. July 2002.

November 12, 2001: Lecture on approaches to women and development at the Gender and Development (GAD) Training at the National Center for Rural Development (NCRD).
October 25, 2001: Consultant for a 3-day gender sensitization workshop conducted for senior staff of the Department of Forests, Fisheries and Wildlife, NWFP. Provided conceptual input at the workshop and provided an outline of my presentation to the organizers.

June 14-17 2001: Consultant for a 3-day gender sensitization workshop conducted for senior staff of the Department of Forests, Fisheries and Wildlife, NWFP. Provided conceptual input at the workshop aside from being responsible for writing the final workshop report.

May 4-May 28 1998: Evaluation of Shirkat Gah Women’s Resource Center’s Women, Law and Status Project outreach activities at the request of the Heinrich Boll Foundation, Germany. This involved reviewing and assessing Shirkat Gah literature, strategy for outreach, coordination and capacity-building activities with Community Based Organizations (CBOs) and other NGOs, trainings and their impact on legal awareness with CBOs and, networking and advocacy at the grassroots for legal awareness and consciousness across the four provinces of Pakistan.

December 1997-February 1998: Participated as a gender expert and leading team member for the mid-term programmatic evaluation of The Asia Foundation (TAF) Pakistan NGO Initiative (PNI), focusing specifically on gender issues in the conceptualization and implementation of the PNI across Pakistan and in different social sectors. My evaluation assessed if the PNI was successful in its overall aim of empowering women in the context of social development and NGO capacity building in Pakistan.
October-November 1997: Evaluated the Pakistan Institute of Labor, Education and Research (PILER) Women Workers' Centers and its’ Women's Education Program. This involved visits to PILER offices in Karachi and Lahore, meeting with participants of PILER's education courses as well as members of its partner organizations in the four provinces of Pakistan. The evaluation provided recommendations for reviving the Women's Centers as well as the new direction/s in which to work.

October 1994: Consultant to GTZ on their Primary Education Project in Charsadda, NWFP. The consultancy involved an assessment of the conditions of work of female Learning Coordinators (LCs) at the district level and proposals for institutional improvement and recommendations for attaining better educational standards.

PRE-DOCTORAL AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

East-West Center Distinguished Service Award, also known as the Makana Award (the highest award the Center confers) for outstanding service to the community, and promoting the goals of the East West Center. May 1991.
Norman Meller Award for Academic Excellence, Department of Political Science, University of Hawaii, September-December, 1990.

Outstanding Contribution Award from the East West Center Participants Association for services to the EWC community. 1987

East West Center Scholarship, selected after a competitive process for graduate study at the University of Hawaií, Manoa. The fellowship covered tuition, book expenses, a monthly stipend, lodging, support for fieldwork in Pakistan and a one-time roundtrip airfare from Pakistan. August 1986–August 1990.
University of Peshawar, Pakistan, Awarded the gold medal for topping the class (M.A.) at the University of Peshawar, 1982.

University of Peshawar, Pakistan, selected for merit scholarships. Tuition waiver and stipend for study during B.A. and later, M.A. in the Department of International Relations, 1976-1982.

FUTURE RESEARCH ACTIVITY
More refereed journal articles based on data collection in Pakistan. While I am currently working on preparing essays based the studies I have conducted in Pakistan, in the near future I will continue to explore various opportunities and possibilities of producing more scholarship from that data. Specifically, I would like to pursue the following:

Use the oral histories with survivors from the 1947 Indo-Pak partition in the North West Frontier Province to write an article for a refereed journal. A draft version of the paper was produced and presented at conferences during the last 4 years.
A possible refereed publication is an expanded version of the 2004 SDPI Working Paper entitled “Women in Karachi Conflict” The data from the research in Pakistan is rich and varied enough to offer a variety of optics.
Publish my work based on interviews with men and women who experienced the two partitions (1947 and 1971) to provide an understanding of ruptured national identities and their fluidity, thereby questioning nationalism and its roots.

Book project provisionally titled: Afghan Refugees in Pakistan: Policy Shifts and Human Security Dilemmas. I am in the process of sketching an outline for this book that will represent an attempt to integrate my work on Afghan refugees over the last 15 years. Modified versions of articles and reports that I have written will also be part of this volume. I anticipate working on this book in 2006-2008.

Edited Book provisionally titled: Rethinking Categories: Questioning Peace and Security in Intra-State Conflicts with Nazish Brohi. We wish to use the data on the social impact of intra-state conflict including communal, ethnic, sectarian, territorial, tribal, familial, community and government sponsored), produced by our project on conflict zones in Pakistan to:

Redefine conflict, conflict zones and security from conflict in Pakistan, challenging conventional peace formulae
Re-conceptualize peace in relation to development issues and everyday life as part of process of deconstructing and embedding the concept of peace in civil society

The eight research areas covered areas of active conflict, ‘flashpoint’ zones considered vulnerable to violence, and areas commonly perceived to be non-conflict or relatively peaceful, spanning all four provinces and tribal and northern areas of Pakistan. The data collected quantifies individual and collective violence on various counts, in terms of health, income, housing, mobility, civil liberties and political rights, among others. There is also a collection of life histories showing how people’s lives are shaped by various forms of violence throughout their lives. 10 researchers have been identified for the project to write on different aspects and themes emerging from the data.

A three-country joint publication The Nation, State, and Violence: 1971 Re-examined with Imtiaz Ahmed, Amena Mohsin and Ashis Nandy

This study would be a significant scholarly and political contribution towards building peace in the Indian subcontinent as no such initiative has been undertaken till now in Bangladesh, Pakistan and India. It will have scholars from the three countries critically analyzing the role of their governments and resistance/independence movement in 1971 to highlight the deep connections between nationalism, the state, and violence. It aims to look at the use of state apparatuses to exacerbate violence by and in the name of the state at three levels: first, it will look at violence that is perpetuated according to the laws of warfare; second, it will examine violence perpetuated on non-combatants; and third, it will look at violence perpetuated by resistance movements in the name of the state in formation. When complete, it will be presented in all three capitals (Islamabad, Dhaka and Delhi) jointly by authors of all three countries.
CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS
“At the Crossroads: The Invisible People in the Old and New Wars” at the World Social Forum (WSF) session entitled, “Osama Bin Laden: Constructing a new Politics of Terror” Karachi, Pakistan, March 25, 2006


“Refugees or Displaced: The Future of Afghans in Pakistan” paper presented at the 8th Sustainable Development Conference, organized by SDPI in Islamabad, 7-9 December 2005.

“Inconvenient Facts: Women’s political representation and Military Regimes in Pakistan,” paper presented at the conference on Gender and Governance, organized by Rozan, December 2004 in Islamabad, Pakistan.

“Post 9/11: Terror, Terrorists and Women in Pakistan’s Tribal Areas” paper presented at the Seventh Sustainable Development Conference entitled, Troubled Times: Sustainable Development and Governance in an Age of Extremes, organized by organized by the Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Islamabad, December 8-10, 2004

“Trafficking in Children for Labor and Sexual Exploitation in Pakistan” report presented with

Shahbaz Bokhari and Kiran N. Ahmed at Seventh Sustainable Development Conference (details above).
“Honor Killings in Pakistan” report presented with Kiran N. Ahmad, Kiran Habib, at Seventh Sustainable Development Conference (details above).

“Impact of masculinities on gender relations in Pakistan,” paper presented at the workshop entitled Engendering Curriculum in Pakistan, Organized by Women’s Studies Center, Quaid e Azam University in collaboration with UNESCO, Islamabad, November 22, 2004

“Post 9/11: Terror, terrorism and effects on local women in Wana, Pakistan” chapter at the request of the Regional Center for Strategic Studies (RCSS) Colombo for its project entitled “Post 9/11: Women and Insecurity in South Asia,” and presented at a workshop entitled, Wana Operations, organized by the Sustainable Development Policy Institute. March 2004.
“Women workers and Peace Movement(s) in South Asia” paper at the conference on Labor and Peace, organized by Pakistan Institute of Labor, Education and Research (PILER), Karachi, September 4-5, 2003.
“Comparing Afghan Refugees and Local Population: What is to be Done?” paper presented at the Sixth International Sustainable Development Conference entitled, Sustainable Development: Bridging the Research/Policy Gaps in Southern Contexts, organized by the Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Islamabad, October 31-November 2, 2002

“Countering Violence: The Role of NGOs” paper presented at a workshop entitled Countering Violence: Challengers for the state and civil society” organized by the Hans Seidel Foundation with the Ministry of Interior, Pakistan, in Islamabad, September 10, 2002

“Afghan Women and the Issue of Agency” paper presented at a conference entitled, Transforming cultures of conflict: Envisioning Peace, organized by Rozan, Islamabad, 19-20 April, 2003

“Women’s Struggles and Structural Adjustment in Pakistan” paper presented at the Fifth International Sustainable Development Conference entitled, Sustainable Development and Southern Realities: Past and Future in South Asia, organized by the Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Islamabad, October 31-November 2, 2002

“Coexistence and difference: Partitions in the Frontier Province” paper presented at the Fifth International Sustainable Development Conference entitled, Sustainable Development and Southern Realities: Past and Future in South Asia, organized by the Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Islamabad, October 31-November 2, 2002

“Women, Work and Empowerment” Paper presented at workshop entitled, Women’s Workers and Empowerment in an Era of Economic Liberalization: A Case Study of Pakistan’s Urban Manufacturing Sector organized by the Pakistan Institute of Education & Labor Research, Karachi, Oct. 17, 2002.


“Violence and the Centrality of Home: Women’s experience of insecurity in the Karachi conflict” at a meeting entitled Colonial Roots and Post-Colonial Identities organized by Simorgh Women’s Collective, Lahore, 2001.

“Beyond Governance: Bargaining for Women’s Rights and Lives,” paper presented at the CEESP-SSRC-SDPI conference on Beyond Governance held at Murree, Pakistan, August 19-21, 1999.

“Understanding Women and Conflict: Cases of Afghan Refugee Women in Peshawar and Mohajir Women in Karachi” paper presented at the Fourth International Sustainable Development Conference organized by the Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Islamabad, May 24-26, 1999.

"Gendered and Violent: Inscribing the military on the nation-state" at conference entitled, Engendering the Nation-State, organized by Simorgh Women’s Collective, 1999.

“Status and Future Directions of Security Studies in Pakistan” paper presented at conference on Security Studies organized by the Regional Center for Strategic Studies (RCSS) in Colombo, December 15-16, 1998
"Linkage between internal and external dynamics of South Asian security" at a conference entitled, Internal and External Dynamics of South Asian Security organized by the Department of International Relations, University of Karachi, September 1996.

"Refugee Policy Politics: Afghans in Pakistan," paper presented at the at the Conference of Scholars and other Professionals Working on Refugees and Displaced Persons in South Asia organized by the RCSS in collaboration with the Refugees Studies Programme of the University of Oxford, Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies, Dhaka and Refugee and Migratory Movement Research Unit of the University of Dhaka, and held at Rajendrapur, Bangladesh, February 9-11, 1998.
"Environmental Conflict and Refugees," paper presented at the Aga Khan University Conference New Directions for Research on Women held at Karachi, May 30-31, 1997.

"The relationship between the women's movement and the state--a historical and theoretical exploration" at a Goethe Institut sponsored symposium entitled "Women in Pakistan and Germany. Breaking the silence," held in Lahore, October 4-7, 1995.

"Good Governance: Can it be a Reality?" at the SDPI and the Heinrich Boll Foundation sponsored conference entitled "Green Economics," held in Islamabad on September 12-14, 1995.

"Militarization, masculinity and identity in Pakistan--effects on women" at the conference entitled Unveiling the Issues organized by ASR Resource Center, 1995.

"A reinterpretation of the state and statist discourse in Pakistan," at the conference Locating the self. Perspectives on women and multiple identities organized by ASR Resource Center, July 1994.

"Security discourses and the state in Pakistan" presented at an SSRC-MacArthur Foundation workshop entitled "Rethinking South Asian Security Studies," held in South Hadley, Massachusetts, August 27-28, 1994.
"Toward a feminist Perspective in American Studies in Pakistan." Paper presented at the Regional American Studies Conference held in Dhaka, Bangladesh, sponsored by the Bangladesh Association for American Studies, November 16-18, 1993.

"Domestic Servants and the Need for Legislation: The Case of the NWFP," co-authored with Shaheen Sardar Ali. In the proceedings of the "Workshop on Women and Employment Legislation in Pakistan," held at Lahore, Pakistan, sponsored by the British Council, Islamabad, Pakistan, February 11-13, 1993.

"A Reinterpretation of the State and Statist Discourse in Pakistan." Paper presented at the 21st Annual Conference on South Asia at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, November 1992.

"Pakistan: Rationale for Identity Construction." Paper presented at the 20th Annual Conference on South Asia at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, November 1991.

"Industrial Policy and the State in Pakistan: The Zia Regime (1977-1988)." Paper presented at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Association of Asian Studies, Chicago, April 1990.

"The Politics of Survival: Industrialization as a State Project in Pakistan," Paper presented at the Seventh Annual Spring Symposium of the Center for South Asian Studies, School of Hawaiian, Asian, and Pacific Studies, University of Hawaii, March 1990.

"The Pakistani State under Zia ul Haq." Paper presented at the Sixth Annual Spring Symposium of the Center for South Asian Studies, School of Hawaiian, Asian, and Pacific Studies, University of Hawaii, in March 1988.
Other conference roles
“Bin Laden: Constructing a New Politics of Terror” session co-organized with Nafisa Shah for the World Social Forum, held at Karachi March 24-26, 2006. Responsibilities included conceptualizing the session, writing an abstract for the session, contacting possible presenters, and coordination with the World Social Forum Organizing Committee.

Fund-Raising for The Sustainable Development Conference (SDC) Series, I have been responsible conceptualizing the theme and proposal for the SDC series since 2002 as well as raising funds (approximately USD 85,000) with the support of the Conference Coordinator for the international conference organized by the Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI). This is a highly respected, well-recognized regional event, attracting scholars, policy-makers and activists.
Introduction and Welcome, The opening speech, written and delivered at the 8th International Sustainable Development Conference, organized by SDPI, Islamabad, December 7-9, 2006.

Introduction and Welcome, The opening speech, written and delivered at the 7th International Sustainable Development Conference entitled, Troubled Times: Sustainable Development Governance in the age of Extremes, organized by SDPI, Islamabad, December 8-10, 2004.

Introduction and Welcome, The opening speech, written and delivered at the 6th International Sustainable Development Conference, entitled Sustainable Development: Bridging the Research/Policy Gaps in Southern Contexts, organized by SDPI, Islamabad, December 11-13, 2003.
Introduction and Welcome, The opening speech, written and delivered at the 5th International Sustainable Development Conference, entitled Sustainable Development and Southern Realities: Past and Future in South Asia October 31-November 01, 2002

Panel Organizer: Have regularly organized panels at the SDPI conference series on the themes of labor, refugees, and peace and security issues, 1998-present
Discussant at the conference entitled, Discussing Traditional Societies and Democracy with a Citizenship Approach to Development, sponsored and organized by the Heinrich Boll Foundation, Lahore, 18 November 2005

Discussant for a conference theme paper by Radhika Coomaraswamy, “Human Security with attention to Human Rights, Social Justice and Social Cost of Gender Specific Violence within the Home and Outside” at the conference entitled Development Effectiveness through Gender Mainstreaming: Lessons Learnt from South Asia organized by UNIFEM in partnership with IDRC and IFAD, New Delhi, 10-12 May 2005

Facilitated a session entitled, ‘Forms of Violence’ and drafted the final declaration as part of the drafting committee at the regional conference on Violence against Women organized by Ministry of Women’s Development, Government of Pakistan, Islamabad, 7-8 September 2005

Panelist: New Perspectives from Zones of Conflict” at t he SSRC sponsored meeting on Conflict Zones Research, Budapest, May 22, 2002



PUBLIC SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS (PAKISTAN):

Regularly deliver public lectures by invitation at different colleges, universities and non-government organizations (NGOs). Also present at workshops, seminars and panels organized by NGOs, INGOs and Government of Pakistan ministries as well as the Planning Commission of Pakistan.

Regularly deliver lectures at the following institutions:

The National Defense College, Islamabad

The Quaid e Azam University, Islamabad.

Allama Iqbal Open University, Islamabad

University of Peshawar, NWFP

Sustainable Development Policy Organization, Islamabad

Christian Study Center, Rawalpindi

ActionAid, Pakistan

LEAD, Pakistan

Pakistan Secretariat Training Institute, Islamabad

SAARC Human Development Center, Islamabad

National Center for Human Development, Islamabad

SELECTED PRENSENTATIONS (INTERNATIONAL)

“At the Crossroads: Women’s Movements in Pakistan and Afghanistan negotiating for space,” presentation at the workshop/meeting entitled, Training for women’s economic skills promotion in South Asia: Afghanistan, India and Pakistan organized by the Department of Women’s Studies, San Diego State University, and funded by the Fred J. Hansen Institute for World Peace, in New Delhi, January 3-6, 2005

“Analyses of the Partition experiences of people in the NWFP and Punjab” at the SSRC (USA) meeting on Zones of Conflict, held in Budapest, May 19-22 2002

“Experiencing the two Partitoins (1947 and 1971—an intergenerational case study” presented at the meeting on ethnicity and violence by the Center for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), New Delhi, September 2001
“Afghan refugee women and peace” at the invitation of the Fred J. Hansen Institute for World Peace, San Diego State University, October 2000
“Women in Conflict Zones—Experiences of Women from Karachi and Kabul” at a meeting entitled, Gender and International Relations organized and sponsored by the Ford Foundation, New York May 2000
“The Pakistani Women’s Movement and the Pakistani State,” presentation for the Department of Women’s Studies, the University of North Caroline, Chapel Hill, March 2000.

“Memories of 1971—case study of an anonymous soldier,” presented for the project on Ethnicity and Violence, organized by the Center for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi at Godavari, Nepal, June 1999
Presentation at the meeting organized by Asia Pacific Women about women in conflict situations in Bangkok, 1997

Presentation at RCSS on refugees and Pakistan Government Policy during the Annual Winter Workshop of the RCSS on Non-Traditional Security Issues March 1998 and March 1999

"Towards People's Participation in Sustainable Development," presentation at an FAO Regional Meeting held in Bangkok, September 25-30, 1995.
"Construction of Gender in Asia," panel speaker for the Asian Studies Development Program Summer Institute, jointly sponsored by the University of Hawaii and the East West Center, July 1991.

"Neo-conservatism, Islam, and Politics in Pakistan" presentation at the New Generation Seminar sponsored by the International Relations Program, June 1991
"Status of Women in Pakistan," presented at a seminar for the American Association of University Women (AAUW), Honolulu, March 1989.
“Malnutrition in Pakistan" presented at the East West Center in May 1987.
“Chinese Foreign Policy: An Overview” presented as a panel speaker at the Core Seminar series at the East West Center, October 1987.
"Religion and Politics in South Asia," presented as a panel speaker at the Core Seminar series at the East West Center, October 1986.
NEWSPAPER ARTICLES

A number of newspaper articles have appeared in leading national dailies such as The News and The Nation on issues of regional politics, gender, labor, and sustainable development. Copies can be provided upon request. Occasionally write for the monthly newsmagazine Newsline.
MEDIA:

Regularly provide comments and input on various political and development issues to the print and electronic media (radio and television) at the local, national and international levels. Have addressed press conferences on behalf of civil society organizations on political rights, human rights, and women’s rights issues. Also participate in discussion programs/talk shows on national television and private television channels.



PROFESSIONAL/SERVICE ACTIVITIES

2006, Member, International Advisory Board, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, University of Chicago Press.

2006, Member, Academic Council, Quaid e Azam University, Islamabad.
2006, Member, Advisory Board, Women’s Institute for Learning and Leadership, Islamabad.


2005-present, Member, Board of Governors, Center for Excellence in Gender Studies, Quaid e Azam University, Islamabad.

2004-present, Member, Board of Directors, Center for Research on Poverty Reduction and Income Distribution (CRPRID), Planning Commission, Islamabad, Government of Pakistan.

2004-present, Member, Millennium Development Goals Review Committee, Planning Commission and Ministry of Finance, Government of Pakistan.
2004-2005, Member, Selection Committee for the Executive Director, Regional Center for Strategic Studies (RCSS), Colombo

2003-present, Advisory Panel, Global Fund for Women, San Francisco, USA.
2002-present, Member, National Environmental Quality Standards (NEQS) Committee, Ministry of Environment, Islamabad, Government of Pakistan.
2002-present, Member, International Research Committee, Regional Center for Strategic Studies, Colombo, Sri Lanka

2002-present, Member, Regional Advisory Panel for South Asia, The Social Sciences Research Council (SSRC), New York

2002-present, Member, Board of Studies, Women’s Studies Center, University of Peshawar.
1995-present, Member, Editorial Board of Theoretical Perspectives published by the Center for Research on Politics, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
1997-present, Member, Board of Directors, and Trustee, Pakistan Institute of Labor Education and Research (PILER), Karachi.

1998-2000 Member, Regional Selection Committee (South Asia), Asia Fellowships sponsored by the Ford Foundation.

1994-2000, Member, Board of Directors, Pattan, Islamabad.

1995-1999, Member, Beijing Follow-Up Unit (National Core Group), Pakistan.
1993-4, Member, Working Committee (Islamabad Chapter), Women's Action Forum.
1993-present, Member, Human Rights Commission of Pakistan.

1996 Worked with CCA--Coordination Center for Afghanistan on human rights issues.
1996-1999 Member, Curriculum Committee, Institute for Women's Studies, Lahore (IWSL), sponsored by ASR Resource Center, Lahore.

1993-1995 Member, Curriculum Committee for Women's Studies, University Grants Commission, Islamabad.

1994-present Member, Curriculum Committee, Center for Women's Studies, Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad.

1993-1995, Fellow, Council of Fellows, Center for Women's Studies, University of Peshawar.

1994-present Member, Islamabad Social Sciences Forum.

1993 Analyst to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Assistance to Afghanistan (UNOCHA), Islamabad.

1988-1989 Board Member, East West Center Participants Association.
1986-1987 and 1988-1989 Co-chairperson, Cultural and Non-formal Committee, East West Center Participant Association Board.

1989-1991 Member, Executive Committee, Center for South Asian Studies, University of Hawaii.
1989-1991 Member, Women's Center Collective, University of Hawaii Women's Center, Hawaii.


References available upon request.