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Saghar Chopan is a PhD candidate at the University of Cologne. She holds a Master’s degree in Social Sciences from the University of Cologne and a second one in Conflict, Governance and Development from the University of York. She has worked for the Afghan Embassy in Berlin, UNICEF, Insurance Corporation of Afghanistan and Club de Madrid.
Political Leadership in Post-Taliban Afghanistan: The Critical Factor
Originally posted December 2009
A hasty, fluid, and poorly conceived process of creating leadership in a post-war situation mainly provides the space for rich and powerful — mostly corrupt — individuals to prevail because their roles, styles, and abilities overshadow concerns about their background, characteristics, homogeneity, and behavioral patterns.[1] Regrettably, such is the case in post-Taliban Afghanistan.
