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An offer for peace with Taliban

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The Hindu, 3 March 2018 This article on President Ghani’s peace proposal to the Taleban quotes from AAN research by Thomas Ruttig and Jelena Bjelica: The proposal has a reference to “negotiation of… any contested aspect of the international community’s future role in Afghanistan”. This, in the opinion of security analysts Thomas Ruttig and Jelena […]

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Die Taliban sind nicht zu besiegen

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NZZ am Sonntag, 3 March 2018 A short quote from AAN’s Thomas Ruttig in this article about the current situation in Afghanistan in the Sunday edition of leading Swiss daily Neue Zürcher Zeitung (in German): Ein entscheidender strategischer Vorteil der Taliban sei die Möglichkeit, sich bei Bedarf nach Pakistan zurückzuziehen, sagt Thomas Ruttig vom Afghanistan […]

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The Second meeting of Kabul Process for Peace and Security Cooperation, held on 28 February 2018 in the Afghan capital, marked a change in peace rhetoric. Credit: Tolo

Who shall cease the fire first? Afghanistan’s peace offer to the Taleban

Jelena Bjelica • Thomas Ruttig •

The second meeting of the Kabul Process for Peace and Security Cooperation that was held in the Afghan capital on 28 February 2018 marked a change in the peace rhetoric. The Afghan government presented some very concrete proposals for peace talks with the Taleban. It came with a few conditions (not called as such) – mainly […]

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Deutscher in Afghanistan gefasst: Ein Kulturforscher unter Islamisten

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Tageszeitung, 1 March 2018 Guest article by AAN’s Thomas Ruttig in he Berlin-based daily on the alleged German Taleban advisor captured in the Afghan province of Helmand (in German).

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Die afghanische Regierung macht den Taliban ein konkretes Angebot

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Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 28 February 2018 The leading Swiss daily quotes AAN’s Thomas Ruttig about the Afghan government’s peace proposals to the Taleban laid out at the Kabul Process’s second meeting, as not fully new in its details, but remarkably systematic: Thomas Ruttig vom Afghanistan Analysts Network, einer Denkfabrik in Kabul, erklärt, dass die einzelnen […]

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Friedensplan in Afghanistan: Angebot an die Taliban

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Tageszeitung, 28 February 2018 Thomas Ruttig’s article summarising the meeting of the Kabul Process and the Afghan president’s peace proposal to the Taleban (in German).

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Friedenskonferenz in Kabul: Angebote an die Taliban

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dpa/Die Welt, 28 February 2018 This conservative German paper – and some other regional pepers – quote AAN’s Thomas Ruttig on the second session of the Kabul Process and the Afghan peace proposal to the Taleban (in German): Die Taliban lehnten das Angebot am Abend allerdings gleich ab. (…) Da hätten die Taliban aber wohl […]

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The Road to Turkestan or: More Theses on Peacemaking in Afghanistan. Manifesto No 2

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Author’s Note: The title and the theme of this set of theses refer to Barnett Rubin’s “Theses on Peacemaking in Afghanistan: A Manifesto” published in War on the Rocks on 23 February 2018 (read here). But these theses will mainly scrutinise Afghanistan’s internal institutional crisis that needs to be addressed in order to improve the […]

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‘Terroristen en rebellen’ van Taliban zijn welkom bij vredesproces Afghanistan

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De Volkskrant, 28 February 2018 AAN’s Thomas Ruttig is quoted in this article by the leading Dutch daily on the recent Afghan peace initiatives and the proposal for a ceasefire: Thomas Ruttig van het gezaghebbende Afghanistan Analysts Network noemt Ghani’s plan een duidelijke stap in de juiste richting. ‘Dit is het meest doortimmerde voorstel sinds […]

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Frieden mit den Taliban? “Man kann und man muss mit ihnen reden”

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Deutschlandfunk Kultur, 28 February 2018 Read a summary and listen to the audio of an extensive interview with AAN’s Thomas Ruttig on the latest peace initiatives in Afghanistan (in German).

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Friedenskonferenz in Kabul – Angebot an Taliban hat “neue Qualität”

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ZDF online, 28 February 2018 Full interview with AAN’s Thomas Ruttig on the website of Germany’s second TV network, discussing the outcome of the second Kabul Process meeting and President Ghani’s peace proposals to the Taleban (in German).

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An Open Letter to the Taliban

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The New Yorker (online), 27 February 2018 Barnett Rubin, an American who helped open secret negotiations with the movement, answered their 14 February 2018 Open Letter “to the American people” and calls for them to challenge the Afghan and the US governments and the second meeting of the Kabul Process beginning today in Kabul with […]

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