Areas
of Research State-/Peacebuilding, Local Ownership,
Scurity Policy, Democratization, Human Rights,
International Organisations, Multi-stakeholder
Partnerships, Conflict Analysis & Mediation,
Western Balkans
Curriculum vitae
Jens Narten studied Political Science, Social
Sciences and Humanitarian Law in Colorado/USA,
Hanover/Germany, Bochum/Germany and Uppsala/Schweden
graduating as BA (1997), Diplom Sozialwissenschaftler
(1999) and MA Humanitarian Assistance (2000).
From 2001 to 2004, he worked as Senior Human Rights
Officer and HR Training Co-ordinator at the OSCE
Mission in Kosovo, seconded by the German Foreign
Office. As a lecturer, he gave academic seminars
at the Universities of Prishtina/Kosovo, Hanover/Germany
and Marburg/Germany on "Human Rights and
International Organisations" and "Conflict
Resolution: Applied Methods and Skills".
From 2004 to 2010, he worked at the Institute
for Peace Research and Security Policy and the
Centre for OSCE Research in Hamburg as researcher
and PhD candidate sponsored for two years by the
German Foundation for Peace Research. He is a
participant in the Research Partnership on Postwar
State-Building (RPPS) , case author to the project
on 'External Democracy Promotion in Post-Conflict
States', and a case study-researcher of the EU-funded
research project "Multi-stakeholder Partnerships
in Post-conflict Reconstruction.".
Languages
English, German, Spanish, French, Albanian
Current project
Multi-stakeholder Partnerships in Post-conflict
Reconstruction