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Afghanistan as a Test of Canadian Politics: What did we Learn from the Experience?

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The Centre for International Governance Innovation and the SSR Resource Centre have just released the 10th and final edition of the Afghanistan Papers. Stephen Saideman’s paper, Afghanistan as a Test of Canadian Politics, considers lessons that can be drawn from the Canadian effort in Afghanistan, especially the challenges of trying to build security, governance and development in Kandahar. First, it examines how the Canadian Forces (CF) adapted over time, both in Afghanistan and in Ottawa. more...

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Mike Lawrence on May 15, 2012

NATO in Afghanistan: Transition

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This new NATO LibGuide is intended to provide a few starting points to assist users and researchers gather information from available sources, on transition in Afghanistan, from NATO/ISAF to Afghan leadership.

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Isabel Fernandez on May 15, 2012

Women in the U.S. Military: Growing share, distinctive profile

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The women who serve in today’s military differ from the men who serve in a number of ways. Compared with their male counterparts, a greater share of military women are black and a smaller share are married. Also, women veterans of the post-9/11 era are less likely than men to have served in combat and more likely to be critical of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. In other ways, however, military women are not different from military men: they are just as likely to be officers; they joined the more...

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D C on March 26, 2012

Anatomizing non-state threats to Pakistan’s nuclear infrastructure

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The greatest threat to Pakistan's nuclear infrastructure comes from jihadists both inside Pakistan and South and Central Asia. While there is appreciation of this danger, there are few substantive studies that identify and explore specific groups motivated and potentially capable of acquiring Pakistani nuclear weapons and/or fissile materials. This report fills that gap by exploring the Pakistani Neo-Taliban (PNT) and the groups that fill its ranks.

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D C on March 06, 2012

Is The Taliban The Main Loser Of Afghanistan's Elections?

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Taliban threats and attacks appear to have succeeded in keeping turnout low in several provinces during Afghanistan's presidential and provincial-council elections on August 20. But as the dust settles and the vote-counting begins, some observers are arguing that people's participation in the election and the security effort that preceded it ultimately signify a Taliban setback.

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Kasem Ali on August 25, 2009

Beyond Bin Laden, Winning the War of Perceptions for Success in Afghanistan - Diplomatic Courier interview with M. Ashraf Haidari

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Beyond Bin Laden, Winning the War of Perceptions for Success in Afghanistan Written by Diplomatic Courier | 15 May 2011 An interview with M. Ashraf Haidari, who works with the Afghan Ministry of Foreign Affairs and formerly served as the Deputy Ambassador of Afghanistan to the United States. Diplomatic Courier: What do you think of the U.S. strategy for Afghanistan; is it succeeding? Haidari: The U.S. Afghanistan strategy is comprehensive in scope, pledging to provide the requisite more...

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M. Ashraf Haidari on May 22, 2011

Wearing Men's Clothes, Afghan Woman Hits The Campaign Trail

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While out campaigning, Akmina, a woman from the deeply conservative and volatile Khost Province, wears men's clothing and carries a Kalashnikov. She is one of 323 women throughout Afghanistan defying Taliban threats and challenging tradition by running for seats on provincial councils. Elections for the councils are being held alongside the presidential poll on August 20.As a resident of the village of Durmuni -- situated not far from Pakistan's Waziristan region, home to hard-line Taliban more...

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Kasem Ali on August 25, 2009

The Torture Report Diary

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No sooner had the Bush administration embarked on a course of systematic violations of the Torture Convention than veteran intelligence officers and military interrogators began to ask what would happen to those who had been treated in a way that undermined any possibility of reintroducing them into the legal system for prosecution. In the heavily redacted section of CIA Inspector General John Helgerson's 2004 Special Review from which this new section takes its title, the only unredacted more...

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D C on April 21, 2011

Getting Away With Murder

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CPJ’s 2011 Impunity Index spotlights 13 countries where journalists are slain and killers go free. Impunity is a key indicator in assessing levels of press freedom and free expression in nations worldwide. CPJ research shows that deadly, unpunished violence against journalists often leads to vast self-censorship in the rest of the press corps. From Somalia to Mexico, CPJ has found that journalists avoid sensitive topics, leave the profession, or flee their homeland to escape violent more...

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Sonia Hossain on December 12, 2011

Beyond OBL, Public Diplomacy in Afghanistan - By M. Ashraf Haidari

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BEYOND OBL, PUBLIC DIPLOMACY IN AFGHANISTANMAY 6, 2011Posted by M. Ashraf HaidariAll posts by M. Ashraf Haidari Over the past ten years since 9/11, event after event in and outside Afghanistan has overshadowed the need to connect with the Afghan people and to deliver on their basic expectations for peace, justice, and prosperity. Even though NATO member-states increasingly appreciate the importance of public diplomacy at home and abroad, they have largely faltered to engage and listen more...

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M. Ashraf Haidari on May 10, 2011

D3 Contributes to Pew Forum Muslim Demography

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D3 Systems is pleased to be partnered with the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion and Public Life to provide consulting services and primary quantitative data collected by D3 Systems on Afghanistan’s Muslim population. Some products of this collaboration were recently released by the Pew Forum in Mapping the Global Muslim Population and at presentations at the XXVI International Population Conference of the IUSSP in Morocco in late September. Mapping the more...

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William Hayes on November 11, 2009

In Defense of Afghan Refugees and Asylum Seekers - By M. Ashraf Haidari

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http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/f04d90fc#/f04d90fc/50 G-8 MAY 2011 MAGAZINE PAGES 50-52 In Defense of Afghan Refugees and Asylum Seekers By M. Ashraf Haidari One last trek, which often tragically ends the lives of many boat refugees on the turbulent and sometimes stormy waters of high seas before they reach the shores of Greece or Australia , is only the tip of the iceberg. Afghan refugees, including many families with children, are not an exception and more...

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M. Ashraf Haidari on June 16, 2011

Seeking a Common Future - By M. Ashraf Haidari

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Seeking a Common Future Special to the Diplomatic Pouch by M. Ashraf Haidari When I first joined the Embassy of Afghanistan in Washington, D.C., in 2004, as director of government and media relations, the embassy lacked everything from a basic management structure to carry out its routine diplomatic activities to a website that could help facilitate customer service online. The concept of public diplomacy through direct dialogue with the American people — explaining to them our shared more...

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M. Ashraf Haidari on April 16, 2011

Religion and Expression

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Should Religion Have a Privileged Status? Above Critique? Above Analysis Unless that Analysis is Meant to Eulogise it? Why a Criticism of Religion Cannot be Treated as a Critical Commentary Just as a Commentary on Culture, Tradition, Science, Technology, Governance, etc?

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- nisha on March 13, 2011

Confronting an Uncertain Threat : The Future of Al Qaeda and Associated Movements

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Al Qaeda and associated movements (AQAM) have become an increasingly diffuse security threat. Although the Afghanistan-Pakistan borderlands may have represented the epicenter of global terrorism in the past decade, al Qaeda’s various regional affiliates are growing in prominence. The past several years also have seen a rise in al Qaeda–inspired plots by small cells or unaffiliated individuals based in the West.

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Moushumi Biswas on September 11, 2011

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