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Jamiat-e Islami Peace Plan

Jamiat-e Islami-ye Afghanistan: “A Comprehensive Peace Plan for Afghanistan: A Practical Concept Note for Sustainable Peace, prepared by General Ata Mohammad Noor, General Chief of Executive Council of Jamiat-e-Islami” dated: Mazar-e Sharif, 2020

30 Apr 2020 Peace process

Looking ahead to Intra-Afghan Negotiations: A scrutiny of different political groups’ plans for peace

Since the US-Taleban agreement in late February, focus has shifted to intra-Afghan negotiations, with little clarity so far as to their scope. The US-Taleban deal agreed on 29 February focused on the withdrawal of US (and other foreign) troops, and anti-terrorism guarantees by the Taleban. While waiting for talks to begin, five political groups have […]

30 Apr 2020 Ali Yawar Adili • Khadija Hossaini • War and Peace

Islamic Republic of Afghanistan negotiation team for Taleban talks

This list has been published by the State Ministry for Peace on 26 March 2020. Originally, it included five women and 16 men (since then two members, including a woman, have been replaced, according to a source from the SMP speaking to AAN on 22 April, bringing down the number of women to four): Masum Stanekzai, head […]

30 Apr 2020 AAN Team • Peace process

Heart of Asia Society: “Draft Framework for Intra-Afghan Peace Negotiations between the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and Taleban Movement”

Draft Framework for Intra-Afghan Negotiations by the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Jadi 1398 [Dec 2019/Jan 2020] Kabul – Afghanistan Table of Content  Introduction ( page 3) Section One: Basis of intra-Afghan negotiations (Page 4) Viewpoints and overall objective  Principles and values Need for national consensus (4) Section Two: Structures necessary for legitimacy and advancement of Intra-Afghan […]

30 Apr 2020 AAN Team • Peace process

Position of Mehwar-e Mardom-e Afghanistan (Afghanistan People’s Axis) regarding Peace Negotiations (Dari)

Mehwar-e Mardom-e Afghanistan (Afghanistan People’s Axis) : “Position of Mehwar-e Mardom Afghanistan regarding Peace Negotiations محور مردم افغانستان ریاست دارالانشاء موضع محور مردم افغانستان در باره مذاکرات صلح کابل، ۳۰ سرطان ۱۳۹۸ مدخل افغانستان در آستانه یک چرخش بسیار مهم تاریخی قرار دارد. گفت‌وگو های ایالات‌متحده امریکا با طالبان در حال نهایی شدن است. همه نشانه‌ها دال بر این است که […]

30 Apr 2020 AAN Team • Peace process

Hezb-e Islami Peace Proposal

Hezbi Islami Peace Proposal (not dated) بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم Introduction: This proposal details the procedure and mechanism aimed at the creation of an authoritative and agreed-upon body for peace and broad political consensus one that includes all circles i.e. government, political entities within and outside the government, prominent and influential personalities, administer the peace […]

30 Apr 2020 AAN Team • Peace process

Plan of the National Council for Peace (Dari)

Mehwar-e Solh wa Nejat-e Afghanistan az Bohran (Axis for Peace and Salvation of Afghanistan from Crisis): “Tarh-e Shura-ye Melli-ye Solh (Plan of the National Council for Peace)” طرح شورای ملی صلح  بخش اول مقدمه اهداف اعتماد سازی و مراحل آن موارد اعتماد سازی داخلی موارد اعتماد سازی خارجی مکانیزم های عملی برای دست یابی به توافقات دارالانشاء […]

30 Apr 2020 AAN Team • Peace process

Flash from the Past: The 1950 Kabul Students Union and its impact on the post-WWII opposition movement

70 years ago, on 4 April 1950, the first students’ organisation in Afghanistan’s history was launched. The Students Union of Kabul University started as an attempt by factions in the government to gain control over a small, but enthusiastic group of activists and instrumentalise it for their own interests. This attempt backfired, and the Union […]

26 Apr 2020 Thomas Ruttig • Context and Culture

Static War: Helmand after the US Marines’ return

In April 2017, 300 US Marines were sent back to Helmand, a province the US troops, who numbered 20,000 at their peak there, had handed over to Afghan forces less than three years earlier. The Marines’ task was to rehabilitate the Afghan National Army’s (ANA) 215th Corps and help prevent the fall of the provincial […]

23 Apr 2020 Andrew Quilty • War and Peace

Herat City’s Reported Spike in Insecurity: What a sober reading of events reveals

In late 2019 and early 2020, Afghanistan’s key western city of Herat witnessed a series of security incidents, including targeted killings and attacks on the police. The increase in violence resulted in an Afghan media uproar and a swirl of local theories about what or who could be behind it. Taking a closer look at […]

21 Apr 2020 S Reza Kazemi • War and Peace