پوسټونه ځړول شوي: Afghanistan

Central Asia and the Caucasus, 03-04/2013 In its Afghanistan-special, the Sweden-based academic journal published an article by AAN’s Thomas Ruttig. Only abstract accessible online: “While a military solution in Afghanistan has failed, the search for a political solution that includes the insurgent Taliban movement has not yielded any significant results, despite initial U.S.-Taliban contacts in […]

۹ میزان / تله ۱۳۹۲

Tell Us How This Ends. Transitional Justice and Prospects for Peace in Afghanistan

Guests • Patricia Gossman • Sari Kouvo •

AAN’s latest thematic report “Tell Us How This Ends: Transitional Justice and Prospects for Peace in Afghanistan” by Patricia Gossman and Sari Kouvo, asks whether, after 35 years of conflict, Afghanistan can move forward without addressing the legacies of its violent past? A timely and relevant question in the context of current efforts to find […]

۹ سرطان / چنګاښ ۱۳۹۲

د راپورونو ګڼه / دوسیه ها نور یی ولوله

The Ongoing Battle for Education. Uprisings, Negotiations and Taleban Tactics

Antonio Giustozzi • Claudio Franco • Guests •

In a follow-up to a December 2011 report, AAN revisits the ongoing negotiations between the Afghan Ministry of Education (MoE) and the Taleban. The earlier report, ‘The Battle for Schools: The Taleban and State Education’, focused on the changing Taleban attitudes towards Afghanistan’s state schools, allowing for the opening of schools in some of the […]

۲۰ جوزا / غبرګولی ۱۳۹۲

A Lot to Worry About: Pakistan on the Eve of Elections

Ann Wilkens • Guests •

The election in Pakistan on 11 May 2013 is just around the corner – but it has not drawn much attention in international media. A new AAN Briefing Paper by Ann Wilkens, ‘A Lot to Worry About: Pakistan on the Eve of Its First Democratic Transition’, who is a member of AAN’s Advisory Board, looks […]

۱۷ ثور / غويی ۱۳۹۲

Militia Disbandment and Peace Building: AAN republication of a 2008 paper

barbara-stapleton • Guests • Priye Ranjan Keolyar •

Disbandment of Illegal Armed Groups (DIAG) was the name of a crucial programme in the post-Taleban years in Afghanistan that ran from 2006 to 2011. As the successor to the Demobilisation, Disarmament and Reintegration (DDR) programme, it was designed to disband those remaining armed groups in the areas of the country not covered by DDR […]

۸ ثور / غويی ۱۳۹۲

Eagle’s Summit Revisited: AAN report about Decision-Making in the Kajaki Dam Project

Guests • Noah Arjomand •

In the summer of 2008, in what was described as the biggest British-led ‘route clearance operation’ since World War II, nearly 5000 ISAF and Afghan troops transported eight components of a hydroelectric turbine, each weighing 20 to 30 tonne, from Kandahar Air Field to the Kajaki Dam in Helmand Province – in the face of […]

۱۱ دلو / سلواغه ۱۳۹۱

د راپورونو ګڼه / دوسیه ها نور یی ولوله

How It All Began: Pre-1979 Origins of Afghanistan’s Conflict

For most people, it was the Soviet invasion over Christmas 1979 that put Afghanistan on the political map when, in the very last days of the 1970s, the Soviet leadership made the central Asian country the arena of the hottest conflict in the last part of the Cold War. As a result, the internationalised Afghanistan […]

۳۰ جدی / مرغومی ۱۳۹۱

The Taliban in Zabul and Uruzgan / Negotiations with the Taliban

Martine van Bijlert • Thomas Ruttig •

AAN’s Martine van Bijlert and Thomas Ruttig both contributed a chapter to this edited volume on the Taleban in Afghanistan and Pakistan, based on earlier publications for the New American Foundation. Click Here for more

۲۵ جدی / مرغومی ۱۳۹۱

Cómo empezó todo: Un breve repaso a los orígenes de los conflictos en Afganistán anteriores a 1979 (How It All Began: An Introduction into the pre-1979 origins of Afghanistan’s Conflicts)

Papeles de relaciones ecosociales y cambio global. (Número 119), Madrid For most people, it was the Soviet invasion over Christmas 1979 that put Afghanistan on the political map again after many decades. But the origins of the internationalised Afghanistan conflict, currently in its 33rd year and often explained through a Cold War perspective only, goes […]

۶ جدی / مرغومی ۱۳۹۱

Das Scheitern der Luftlande-Demokratie in Afghanistan: Die Bonner Vereinbarungen von 2001 und die versandete Demokratisierung am Hindukusch – ein Blick von innen

Thomas Ruttig, in: Marléne Neumann, Michael Schied and Diethelm Weidemann (eds), Afghanistan: Probleme, Konflikte, Perspektiven, Studien zur Geschichte und Gegenwart Asiens, vol. 3, Berlin: trafo Wissenschaftsverlag, pp 41-52. The original English version is: ‘The Failure of Airborne Democracy: The Bonn Agreement and Afghanistan’s Stagnating Democratisation’ Full pdf available here: Das Scheitern der Luftlande-Demokratie in Afghanistan: […]

۳۰ سنبله / وږی ۱۳۹۱

AAN political parties paper series 2: Rise and Decline of Maoism

Guests • Niamatullah Ibrahimi • Robert Peszkowski •

With two new reports – ‘Ideology without Leadership: The rise and decline of Maoism in Afghanistan’ by Niamatullah Ibrahimi and ‘Reforming Jombesh: An Afghan Party on Its Winding Road to Internal Democracy’ by Robert Peszkowski – AAN has launched a new series of papers that look at the development of political parties and movements in […]

۱۰ سنبله / وږی ۱۳۹۱