یافته‌های ۸صبح: معادن افغانستان تاراج می‌شوند روزنامه 8صبح، گزارشگر: اکبر رستمی، 11 حمل 1392یافته‌های روزنامه ۸صبح نشان می‌دهد که پس از انتخاب وحیدالله شهرانی به حیث وزیر «معادن، نفت و گ... Read more
“Good” water governance models in Afghanistan: Gaps and Opportunities Afghanistan Research and evaluation Unit(AREU), March 2013This policy note draws on evidence from recent EU-funded AREU field research to ex... Read more
Karzai’s Curious Counterblast Institute for War & Peace Reporting(IWPR), By Hafizullah Gardesh, March 22, 2013Whatever President Hamed Karzai’s motives for launching ... Read more
The Politics of Aid Chatham House, March 14, 2013This is a transcript of a speech made by Sir John Holmes, UN Emergency Relief Coordinator (2007-10), on 14 Marc... Read more
2014: The Other Afghan Withdrawal Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB), By Reyes, Gabriel , February 28, 2013The withdrawal of international troops seems to hav... Read more
Is Peaceful Political Transition in Afghanistan Possible? Chatham House, March 12, 2013This is a transcript of an event held at Chatham House on 12 March 2013. The panel discussed the international ... Read more
Displacement in Afghanistan: Post-2014 Origins, Current Situation and Potential Flows NATO Civil-Military Fusion Centre, By Gonzalez Palau, Rainer , March 21, 2013This document provides an overview of the origins and current c... Read more
The Kabul Bank Tribunal: an Exercise in Containment Afghanistan Analysts Network(AAN), By Martine van Bijlert, March 9, 2013The Kabul Bank crisis is complicated and multi-layered. Its tentacle... Read more
Rancour between the Allies: Karzai speaks to the Americans Afghanistan Analysts Network(AAN), By Kate Clark, March 22, 2013If the Americans ‘surrender’ to Afghan demands, President Karzai has said, h... Read more
Afghanistan: Bagram prison transfer raises torture concerns Amnesty International, March 8, 2013The transfer of hundreds of detainees at Bagram detention centre from US to Afghan custody raises seriou... Read more

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The forty fifth edition of the Truth Newsletter reflects the published articles in the Kabul print media in the areas of prospects for political More...
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The forty fourth edition of the Truth newsletter is published with the most important issues reflected in the Kabul print media in the areas of More...

17 July 2011
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Statement of Afghanistan Watch on the International Criminal Justice Day   This year for the first time in world history, 17 July is celebrated as International Criminal Justice Day. The day More...
18 July 2010
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17 civil society actors, representing more than 200 civil society organisations, and several media organisations, unite before the approaching Kabul Conference to ask the Afghan Government to pass More...
10 December 2009
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Statement of Afghanistan Watch on the 10th of December the Universal Human Rights Day and Victims Day in Afghanistan The 10th of December is the Universal Day of Human Rights and officially More...
05 April 2009
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President Karzai has recently signed Qanon-e Ahwal-e Shakhsiah Ahl-e Tashaio’a, or the Law on Private Matters of the Shiites, a new legislation dealing with the private matters of the Shiite More...

12 May 2013
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The Civil Society Natural Resources Monitoring Network (CSNRMN) monthly meeting was held in Afghanistan Watch on 12 May 2013. The meeting was opened by remarks from Jalil Benish, the director of More...
11 April 2013
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In its series of seminar regarding important political and social issues in Afghanistan, the Afghanistan Watch has held a seminar on reconciliation with Taliban and the role of media and civil More...
15 January 2013
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A number of civil society organizations in Afghanistan in a one-day meeting have assessed challenges and opportunities in regards with the extraction of mines in Afghanistan. The meeting took place More...
25 December 2012
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Afghanistan Watch Second Conference with Civil Societies and Media representatives As part of its efforts to collect and analyze Afghan media coverage of key current issues facing Afghanistan, More...
19 October 2012
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In October 2012, Afghanistan Watch and the Afghan Analyst Network (AAN) jointly initiated a Transition Seminar Series to provide an opportunity for constructive debate between Afghans and More...

Peace offerings: Theories of conflict resolution and their applicability to Afghanistan

Afghanistan analysts Network (AAN) / January 28, 2011

Despite the recent deployments of more troops and greater military resources to Afghanistan by the US-led Western coalition, there has been no abatement in the insurgency. It rather is increasing in lethality, territorial scope and mobilisation beyond their main base in the Pashtun ethnic group. As a result, doubts about the efficacy of conventional war-fighting, counter-insurgency and transition strategies grow and alternative means of mitigating the conflict come into sight.

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Washington fuelling graft in Afghanistan

According to Namatullah Ibrahimi with Afghanistan Watch, a Kabul-based non-governmental organization, drawing a clear distinction between clean and dirty money in the country is a difficult task. Corruption is often a matter of perception.

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Looking Back: An Afghanistan Watch Analysis of the Voting Patterns in the First Parliament

What lessons can be drawn from the first parliamentary cycle? What voting patterns and political alignments have developed in the parliament? What ideas, ideologies and powers have been at play when the parliament voted for the Mass Media Law, the National Reconciliation Charter or the Higher Education Law? These are some of the questions addressed in Afghanistan Watch’s report ‘The First Experience - Voting Patterns and Political Alignments in the Wolesi Jirga 2005-2010’. Sari Kouvo, AAN Co-Director, takes a closer look at the research conducted by Afghanistan Watch and funded by AAN

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Asia Speech for General Debate

Speech of Jalil Benish for the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the ICC

Distinguished members of the Assembly of States Parties of the ICC, Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen:

My name is Jalil Benish of Afghanistan Watch from Kabul, Afghanistan, speaking on behalf of my colleagues in the Coalition for the ICC- Asia-Pacific.

We are witnessing a definite trend towards accountability for the most serious crimes in the Asia Pacific – a region that has seen horrible atrocities being committed in the past and present and yet is one of the most underrepresented before the ICC. Of the six ratifications for 2011, three of them – the Philippines in Southeast Asia, Maldives in South Asia and Vanuatu in the Pacific – are in Asia-Pacific, bringing to a total of 17 the states parties to the ICC from the region. On this occasion, we would also like to commend the government of Malaysia for having completed the necessary steps within the domestic level for accession to the Rome Statute, and call on it promptly deposit its instrument of accession, thus bringing to 18 the total number of states parties in the region.

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Website link: Coalition for the International Criminal Court (CICC)


 
Afghans campaign amid warzone

Aljazeera

A report released this month by the Afghanistan Watch organisation and funded by the Afghan Analysts Network characterised parliament as being wracked by continual ethnic and sectarian fights, throwing obstacles in front of processes such as approving effective cabinet nominees.

The report quoted Kabir Ranjbar, a member of parliament, as saying that "the approaches based on ethnicity, language and religion have been a main point of the Wolesi Jirga’s weakness and the main factor for approval of the incapable and inefficient ministers. If the [members of parliament] had considered the national interests during the process of confidence voting for the cabinet nominees, the consequent confusions would have been prevented."

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Impunity and Instability: An Unbroken Cycle

Middle East Institute Viewpoints: Afghanistan, 1979-2009: In the Grip of Conflict • www.mei.edu

By: Abdul Jalil Benish, director of Afghanistan Watch

Impunity in Afghanistan is like an unwritten law which benefits the wealthiest and most powerful criminals.

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