A Plan to Stabilize Afghanistan
Miakhel, Shahmahmood
Centre for International Governance Innovation, The Afghanistan Papers #4, May 2010, 14p (PDF)
"Afghanistan’s problems are well known: rampant insecurity, endemic corruption, deep-seated poverty and weak governance. Unfortunately most of the strategies advanced to address these issues have lacked clear, effective and culturally-adapted implementation frameworks, making them more like wish lists than concrete roadmaps. Based on wide experience and engagement in Afghanistan’s state-building project since 2001 – in the United Nations, Afghan government, and civil society – the author provides a broad outline for a new strategy to stabilize Afghanistan. At the core of this new strategy is a focus on priority areas, or centres of gravity, and an emphasis on local-level participation in program design and implementation. While the window of opportunity to stabilize and rebuild Afghanistan is closing, there are straight forward steps that can be taken to turn the tide of Afghanistan’s current crisis."
Shahmahmood Miakhel is the chief of party in Afghanistan for the US Institute of Peace (USIP). Prior to that he was a Governance advisor for the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), and, from 2003-2005, a deputy minister of the Interior in the Government of Afghanistan.
Go to the report at:
http://www.cigionline.org/sites/default/files/Afghanistan_Paper_4.pdf
A20/02-10. Posted May 21, 2010
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