Mona Kanwal Sheikh

PhD Political Science
Postdoc, research unit on The Middle East
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Expertise

Mona Kanwal Sheikh's main area of expertise is militant movements in Pakistan, especially the movements related to the Pakistani Taliban. Her research focuses on religious justifications of, and mobilization to, violence. She has also worked more broadly with Islamist ideologies related to Al-Qaeda, Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood

Selected projects and programmes

Religious Militancy in Pakistan

Sociotheology (with Mark Juergensmeyer)

Comparative Secularism (with Ole Wæver)

Selected publications

'How does religion matter? Pathways to religion in International Relations'. In Review of International Studies. Published on FirstView, 2011

'Global security and conflict' (co-authored with Ole Wæver). Entry essay in Encyclopedia of Global Studies, edited by Mark Juergensmeyer and Helmut Anheier. London and New York: Sage Publications. 2012

'Western secularisms – variations in a doctrine and its practice' (Co-authored with Ole Wæver). In Thinking International Relations Differently, edited by Arlene B. Tickner and David L. Blaney. London: Routledge. 2012

'A sociotheological approach to understanding religious violence' (co-authored with Mark Juergensmeyer). In The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Violence, edited by Michael Jerryson, Mark Juergensmeyer, and Margo Kitts. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Forthcoming 2012

Encyclopedia entry: 'Jamaat-e-Islami'. In Encyclopedia of Global Religion, edited by Mark Juergensmeyer and Wade Clark Roof. Sage Publications. 2011

Selected commissioned work

Encyclopedia entry: 'Jamaat-e-Islami'. In Encyclopedia of Global Religion, edited by Mark Juergensmeyer and Wade Clark Roof. Sage Publications. Forthcoming 2011

Brief: 'Disaggregating the Pakistani Taliban: Does the good, the bad and the ugly Taliban distinction represent a failed policy?' (2009). The Danish Institute for International Studies

Policy paper: 'Cartoons, movies: New genres building up conflict over religion in Europe' (2008) (Co-authored with Ulrik Pram Gad). Centre for European Politics, University of Copenhagen

Analytic paper: (theme confidential) for the EU commission, commissioned by the European Network of Experts on Radicalisation/The Change Institute (2008)

Feasibility study of the establishement of a Danish Cultural Institute in Qatar/Bahrain, for the Danish Cultural Institute (2004)

Selected research related activities

Member of the European Network of Experts on Radicalisation

Member of the working group on religion and security at the Centre for Advanced Security Theory, University of Copenhagen

Part of the Danish Network for Pakistan Studies

Peer reviewer for international journals

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