Knowledge Centre : Peace and Conflict : Specific Crises : Afghanistan : Page 3
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- The Political Economy of War and Peace in Afghanistan
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By Barnett R. Rubin, EurasiaNet (1999). The 20-year old Afghan conflict has created an open war economy, affecting Afghanistan and surrounding areas. Not only has Afghanistan become the world's largest opium producer and a center for arms dealing, but it supports a multi-billion dollar trade in goods smuggled from Dubai to Pakistan. This criminalized economy funds both the Taliban and their adversaries. It has transformed social relations and weakened states and legal economies throughout the region.
http://www.eurasianet.org/resource/regional/rubin_on_afgistan.html
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- THE ROGUE STATE
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Legendary foreign correspondent JOHN PILGER on America's bid to control the world. FOR 101 days, Royal Marines have been engaged in a farcical operation as mercenaries of the United States whose lawlessness now qualifies it as the world's leading rogue state. Shooting at shadows, and the occasional tribesman, blowing up mounds of dirt and displaying "captured" arms for the media, all have been part of the Marines' humiliating role in Afghanistan - a role foisted upon them by the Blair government, whose deference to and collusion with the Bush gang has become a parody of the imperial courtier.
http://www.medialens.org/articles/the_articles/articles_2002/jp_rogue_state.html
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- The situation in Afghanistan and its implications for international peace and security
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Report of the United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan. (A/57/487-S/2002/1173). August 2004.The report indicates that violent attacks have risen and that factionalism and illicit drug industry are also on the rise threatening lasting peace as the country prepares for elections. These violent attacks and cross-border infiltrations have increased especially in the south of Afghanistan and these activities are depriving many communities of the benefits of economic and political reconstruction. Violence - both terrorist and criminal - is carried out "with seeming impunity" resulting in "the loss of too many Afghan lives and increasingly of those of international assistance workers" says the report. However Kofit Annan explains that the high rate of voter registrations shows that groups responsible for the violence of politically isolated.
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/KHII-6MU3UW?OpenDocument
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- The Taliban Strikes Back
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This article by Gary Brecher explores the Taliban's resurgence after six years of an American administration ignoring the country's continuing conflict. (AlterNet, July 21, 2008).
http://www.alternet.org/audits/92157/?ses=6f8e5c2f200776ffe6a0cb88a7ce42cb
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- UN body urges US to shut Guantanamo, "secret jails"
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The United Nations top anti-torture body told the United States on Friday that any secret jails it ran for foreign terrorism suspects, along with the Guantanamo Bay facility, were illegal and should be closed. In its first review of U.S. policy since Washington launched its war on terrorism, the Committee against Torture also urged President George W. Bush to ban interrogation methods that could be regarded as torture or cruel treatment. It cited use of dogs to terrify detainees, "water-boarding" which is a form of mock drowning, and sexual humiliation, saying that some detainees had died during questioning. The U.S. State Department rejected the recommendations to close detention facilities as being beyond the committee's anti-torture mandate. (Stephanie Nebehay, Reuter, 19 May 2006)
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13107.htm
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- Video: Corruption plaguing Afghanistan
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Money spent by international aid organisations in Afghanistan does not always reach the people it is supposed to help. In this BBC video report, David Loyn reports on the alarming levels of corruption and the concerns over the way reconstruction money is being spent. (May 2006, plugins required)
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- War 'has ruined Afghan environment'
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In this report by the BBS, two decades of war have laid waste Afghanistan's environment so badly that its reconstruction is now compromised, the United Nations says.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2704989.stm
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- What are YOU doing about Afghanistan? An Open Letter to Anti-War Activists
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"Afghanistan has been devastated by the U.S. military and neglected by the antiwar movement. I am writing to appeal antiwar activists to seriously incorporate Afghanistan into their work," writes Sonali Kolhatkar of the Afghan Women's Mission. Ms. Kolhatkar draws upon a range of ideas to illustrate the challenging situation in present-day Afghanistan, and concludes "Empire is being built on the backs of Afghans and it is up to us as antiwar activists to recognize it and address it".
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0408-14.htm
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- What really works in preventing and rebuilding failed states: lessons from Afghanistan
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This occasional paper is the third in a series based on public forums held in 2006 and 2007 under the direction of Ambassador Howard Wolpe, director of the Project on Leadership and Building State Capacity at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. The series aims to examine key thematic issues that affect conflict transformation in settings of weak and conflict-prone societies. (Woodrow Wilson, September 2007)
http://www.wilsoncenter.org/topics/pubs/PLBSC_issue3.pdf
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- Why It's Not Working in Afghanistan
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Why is Afghanistan in the midst of a bloody war? Because, this article argues, the Bush administration set up a government without first making peace, and its promised aid has only benefited American contractors who are expensive and failing to deliver. (Ann Jones, Common Dreams, 28 August 2006)
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0828-22.htm
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- Williams Afghan Media Project (WAMP)
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Seeks to preserve photographs, film, video, audio, and other media having to do with the history and society of Afghanistan. WAMP was originally founded in March 2001 as a collaborative undertaking with the Afghan Media Resource Center (AMRC) in Peshawar, Pakistan to preserve and utilize for scholarly and educational purposes AMRC's archive of materials related to the conflict in Afghanistan. Since then, the WAMP archive has expanded to include other material, including approximately two thousand slides taken by the American scholars, Louis and Nancy Dupree, and the photographic collection of Khalilullah Enayat Seraj from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
http://drm.williams.edu/wamp/web/information.htm
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