Afghanistan's Cultural Institutions & Private Sector in the Shadow of 2014
MEI Podcast, 20120925 Afghanistan’s Cultural Institutions & Private Sector in the Shadow of 2014 Shaharzad Akbar; Joanie Meharry, Jahid Mohseni, Laura Tedesco, George Gavrilis , Wendy ChamberlinPresented by The Middle East Institute and the Hollings Center
Afghanistan's Cultural Institutions & Private Sector in the Shadow of 2014
MEI Podcast, 20120925 Afghanistan’s Cultural Institutions & Private Sector in the Shadow of 2014 Shaharzad Akbar; Joanie Meharry, Jahid Mohseni, Laura Tedesco, George Gavrilis , Wendy ChamberlinPresented by The Middle East Institute and the Hollings Center
Afghanistan's Cultural Institutions & Private Sector in the Shadow of 2014
MEI Podcast, 20120925 Afghanistan’s Cultural Institutions & Private Sector in the Shadow of 2014 Shaharzad Akbar; Joanie Meharry, Jahid Mohseni, Laura Tedesco, George Gavrilis , Wendy ChamberlinPresented by The Middle East Institute and the Hollings Center
Afghanistan's Cultural Institutions & Private Sector in the Shadow of 2014
MEI Podcast, 20120925 Afghanistan’s Cultural Institutions & Private Sector in the Shadow of 2014 Shaharzad Akbar; Joanie Meharry, Jahid Mohseni, Laura Tedesco, George Gavrilis , Wendy ChamberlinPresented by The Middle East Institute and the Hollings Center
Afghanistan: Where Chaos Is King and Plunder Is Privilege
The “new and improved” tactics of “divide and conquer” are operational both at the vertical and horizontal layers of the government and society in Afghanistan.
Afghanistan 2002-2012: A Decade of Progress and Hope.
Recent media coverage of the Afghan war questions whether we’ve made meaningful progress towards security and an effective Government in that country. Or were the past ten years a lost decade for the Afghans and Coalition partners? This ten-year milestone is a good point in time to pause, check Afghanistan’s progress, and assess where it appears to be headed. With the assistance of over 40 nations, Afghanistan developed its infrastructure and has taken major steps towards self sufficiency.
We are regularly bombarded by news reports and political analysis that reflect certain underlying assumptions about Afghanistan. These assumptions range from claims that Afghanistan was always a backward state ruled by warlords, to assertions that the country was never really a nation at all, and proclamations that Afghanistan is unfit for Western-style democracy and that it is dangerously naïve to think otherwise.
Since the overthrow of King Mohammad Zahir Shah in 1973, Afghanistan has been plagued by war — either war waged among ideologues (Marxists v. nationalists) or war marked by foreign invasion and occupation. The Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, which began in 1979, lasted a full decade.
Bruce Richardson raises an important issue regarding the protection, trafficking, and exploitation of cultural patrimony. Aspects of this issue range across research, polemics, and litigation in attempts to document loss, return treasures, or on the other hand prevent restitution or repatriation. Richardson properly decries cultural looting, but we must distinguish among causes to reach agreement on protective steps.
The Afghanistan Stabilisation Program (ASP): A National Program to Improve Security and Governance
Since the coup in April of 1978 by the People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA), the social, cultural, political, economic, governance, and security fabric of Afghanistan’s institutions have been destroyed by the subsequent Mujahedin and Taleban regimes. It is impossible to have enduring peace, stability, and development in a country without a strong institutional foundation. After 33 years of war and instability, for the most part, the linkages between central, provincial, district, and village governance structures in Afghanistan are either very weak or non-existent.
