Rehabilitation and Development
Rehabilitation and development activities are regarded as important
instruments in the peacebuilding process, both as a way to secure common
Afghans a peace dividend and to generate support for the ATA and the
political transition process. Major emphasis had therefore been placed
on the National Solidarity Program (NSP), the National Emergency Employment
Programme (NEEP) and the Afghanistan’s New Beginnings Programme
(ANBP). While these programmes are criticized for their slow implementation,
they are expected to be largely expanded over the coming years.
The introduction of military Provincial Reconstruction Teams has become
more controversial as, in the US model which differs from the UK one,
provision of humanitarian assistance and the coordination thereof is
part of a military strategy of ‘winning Afghan hearts and minds’.
Links:
Publications:
2004
Inger W. Boesen (2004)
From
Subjects to Citizens: Local Participation in the NSP
http://topics.developmentgateway.org
/afghanistan/rc/filedownload.do~itemId=1011063
CARE and Centre on International Cooperation
The
Cost of Doing Too Little (2004)
http://www.careusa.org
/newsroom/specialreports/afghanistan/CICBrief_final.pdf
Feinstein International Famine Center (2004)
Human
Security and Livelihoods of Rural Afghans, 2002–2003
http://famine.tufts.edu/pdf/Mazurana2.pdf
Sarah Lister and Adam Pain (AREU Briefing Paper June 2004)
Trading
in Power: The Politics of "Free" Markets in Afghanistan
http://www.areu.org.af
/publications/Political Economy/AREU%20Political%20Economy%20Brief.pdf
UN Office on Drugs and Crime (November 2004)
Afganistan
Opium Survey 2004
http://www.unodc.org/pdf/afg/afghanistan_opium_survey_2004.pdf
World Bank Country Economic Report (2004)
Afghanistan. State Building, Sustaining Growth, and Reducing Poverty
http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTAFGHANISTAN/News and Events
/20261395/AfghanistanEconomicReportfinalversion909.pdf
2003
Kristian Berg Harpviken and Bernt A. Skaara (2003)
Humanitarian
mine action and peace building: exploring the relationship
Third World Quarterly, 2003, vol. 24, no. 5, pp. 809-822
http://taylorandfrancis.metapress.com/link.asp?id=44b6bdypw2ytn9t8
International Crisis Group (Asia Report No. 48, 2003)
Afghanistan:
Women and Reconstruction
http://www.crisisweb.org/home/index.cfm?id=1637
International Crisis Group (Asia Report No. 65, 2003)
Disarmament
and Reintegration in Afghanistan
http://www.crisisweb.org/home/index.cfm?id=2292
Kjell Erling Kjellman, Kristian Berg Harpviken, Ananda S. Millard and
Arne Strand (2003)
Acting
as one: coordinated responses to the land mine problem
Third World Quarterly, 2003, vol. 24, no. 5, pp. 855-871
http://taylorandfrancis.metapress.com/link.asp?id=9kjpnwx2ra23q263
Barnett R. Rubin, Humayun Hamidzada and Abby Stoddard (2003)
Through
the Fog of Peacebuilding: Evaluating the Reconstruction of Afghanistan
2002
Sultan Barakat (Guest Editor) (2002)
Third
World Quarterly. Special Issue. Reconstructing war-torn societies: Afghanistan
http://taylorandfrancis.metapress.com/link.asp?id=t3l3fwv2d3jg
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