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16 Sept 2019: Do the Taleban Want Peace? Seminar in Oslo

Thomas Ruttig •

Seminar in Oslo on 16 September (6-8pm), organised by the Norwegian Afghanistan Committee. Panel with: Ashley Jackson, Overseas Development Institute and Kings College, London Thomas Ruttig, Afghanistan Analysts Network (AAN) Ahmad Yasir Aqil, freelancer, Oslo moderator: Kai Eide     Here the original (Norwegian) announcement: Invitasjon til møte 16. september. kl 18-20, Tøyen,Oslo AKTUELT/ onsdag […]

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Call for Bids (or Proposals) Website Design, Development, Hosting and Maintenance for the Afghanistan Analysts Network

Sudhansu Verma •

The Afghanistan Analysts Network is a non-profit, independent policy research organisation, established in 2009. It aims to bring together the knowledge, experience and drive of experts to better inform policy and to increase the understanding of Afghan realities. It is driven by engagement and curiosity and is committed to producing independent, high quality and research-based […]

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Multi-panel discussion at the U.S. Institute of Peace

Sudhansu Verma •

The Long Search for Peace in Afghanistan – Top-Down and Bottom-Up Efforts AAN’s co-director Kate Clark will be speaking at the the U.S. Institute of Peace on Thursday, June 7 during a multi-panel discussion on practical steps for the search for peace in Afghanistan. The event will examine the issue from two crucial perspectives: the top-down effort […]

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28 April 2018, Frankfurt/M: AAN at The (Afghan) Poetry Project

Thomas Ruttig •

Since their arrival in Europe, 14 to 18 year old refugees from Afghanistan and Iran have started writing poetry and working with a group of mentors around Spiegel journalist (and Afghanistan correspondent) Susanne Koelbl. The compose verses about mortal fear, foreignness and longing, allowing insight into the experience of war, becoming a refuge and meeting […]

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AAN on panel: discussing state building in Afghanistan in a global context

Sudhansu Verma •

With its strategic location Afghanistan has been a focus of global politics for many centuries. Despite its fragile nation-state and conflicting ethnic parties, Afghanistan has managed not to formally cede its sovereignty to a colonial power or break up along ethnic lines. How can we explain this historical development? How does the Afghan state function? […]

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One of the refugee families who returned from Pakistan to Afghanistan in 2017. Last year, some 57,000 people returned. This year, a far bigger, forced exodus is feared. Photo: Andrew Quilty, 2017, Nangrahar.

AAN at 6 March 2018 Vienna event: “Afghanistan in Pakistan”

AAN •

Pakistan has hosted millions of Afghan refugees over decades. 2016 it began, however, to push them out in masses. The deported Afghans return into a country with a  catastrophic security situation.  Their situation will be discussed on a podium which includes AA’s Jelena Bjelica.   Time and location Tuesday, 6 March 2018, 19:00 – 21:00 […]

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AAN in Berlin (4 December 2017): The Afghanistan Rumour Kitchen

Thomas Ruttig •

rumours about_Afghanistan: is the name of a Berlin anti-deportation initiative, based on the title of a campaign the German Embassy launched last year via social media and large-format posters in Kabul and Mazar-e Sharif in order to persuade Afghans not to leave their country and come to Germany. Two days before Germany’s planned eight deportation […]

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AAN on Afghanistan podiums: Stuttgart 30/8, Berlin 4/9, 20/9

Thomas Ruttig •

It is general election campaign time in Germany (the new Bundestag is to be elected on 24 September) and Afghanistan’s situation is making it into the discussion again, mainly related to refugee movements and the internal security situation. Chancelor Angela Merkel has just told daily taz in an extensive interview: “We should not send the […]

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Berlin, 5 July 2017: Book presentation with AAN

Thomas Ruttig •

“A Society of Intervention: An essay about about conflicts in Afghanistan and other military interventions” – this is the title of a new book by Michael Daxner, Professor of Sociology, Freie Universität Berlin, former advisor to the Afghan Minister of Higher Education and prolific author on Afghanistan. It will be presented at the Berlin office […]

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This evening: AAN in Potsdam (Germany) on Afghan migration

Thomas Ruttig •

“Protection for Afghan Refugees in Brandenburg? Perspektives, not deportation into war”. AAN co-director Thomas Ruttig speaks about the security situation in Afghanistan in the context of Germany’s deportations of rejected Afghan asylum seekers. Organised by the Brandenburg Refugees Council In German and Dari   where: Urania-Verein, Gutenbergstr. 71/72, Potsdam when: 30 May 2017, 7-9pm   More […]

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Picture shows damaged building

AAN’s Thomas Ruttig on „How safe is Afghanistan (for deportations)?“

Thomas Ruttig •

Here are AAN co-director Thomas Ruttig’s next speaking appointments: four public events in four German cities (Mainz, Hamburg, Geesthacht near Hamburg, Berlin), all before the end of March, each time about the Afghan issue that dominates Germany’s domestic debate: whether the country is ‘safe’ enough that the German government (at the start of an election campaign […]

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Kabul’s Kart-e Sakhi shrine where two attackers wearing police uniforms and equipped with grenades and machine guns opened fire on Ashura mourners on 11 October 2016. Photo: Tolo

AAN at Public Seminar in Wiesbaden (Germany: 19 January 2017)

Thomas Ruttig •

„Afghanistan: A country between world policy, ethnic conflict and religious radicalism“ (Ein Land im Spannungsfeld von (Welt-)politik, ethnischen Konflikten und religiösem Radikalismus) AAN’s Thomas Ruttig will be one of the presenters at this evening of lectures and discussion (in German), organised by Hesse State Centre for Political Education (HSCPE). Other participants: Ambassador Dr. Gunter Mulack […]

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