Afghanistan’s history is intimately tied to world politics.  The latest chapter of this relationship is the unprecedented statebuilding project starting in 2001. Despite much significant change in the country, many...

This article is a contribution to the Boston Review debate on counterinsurgency in Afghanistan. It argues that when the problem is cast in combat terms—Afghanistan ...

Expert witness for the inquiry on the United Kingdom and Afghanistan, Committee on International Relations and Defence, House of Lords.

Peacebuilding strategies for Afghanistan. Part II: A decade of peacebuilding: lessons for Afghanist

This paper aims to explain the broader contours of the emerging fields of political power in contemporary Afghanistan and its implications for regional ...

Afghanistan has within the span of three years moved from a complex political emergency to a nascent state-building process, a process that is not yet ...

Two different and basically conflicting visions of Afghanistan’s post-transition future were discernible by mid-2012. In one, Afghanistan’s ...

Afghanistan, Local law, Women, Human Rights

Norway has a long history of providing humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan through non-governmental organisations and the United Nations, and has played ...

This report provides the first empirically-based and independent analysis of the Afghan Local Police (ALP) programme in Afghanistan. It examines how the ...

Admittedly, the trend in Afghanistan for the past 30 years has been towards a more centralized state and greater concentration of power in the presidency. ...

Why is it that we have not seen more positive results in Afghanistan since 2001? What are the major challenges, for the Afghans and for us? Security ...

(The Norwegian Afghanistan Committee Annual Meeting in Bergen, October 1995)

Since the 2001 overthrow of the Taliban government in Afghanistan, violence against women has emerged as the single most important issue for Afghan gender ...

(Commissioned by OCHA, UNHCR, UNICEF and WFP. Limited circulation)

A new paradigm for post-conflict donor intervention was put at test in Afghanistan: adjusting to complex political, military and economic imperatives. ...

Afghanistan was a troubled country in 2001. Not only is Afghanistan one of the poorest countries in the world, but protracted armed conflict since 1978 ...

This article argues that the key issue confronting post-2001 Afghanistan is not so much which particular strongman should rule Afghanistan, but rather ...

Aid coordination is expected to ensure the more efficient and effective delivery of humanitarian assistance. Presently, a large number of humanitarian ...

Visions of peace and the means of violence have been strategically joined at the very foundation of the international engagement in Afghanistan since ...

Future stability in Afghanistan depends in part upon continued delivery of development assistance throughout the country, albeit at reduced levels, ...