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Afghanistan
Reconstruction Project The Afghanistan Reconstruction Project (ARP) carries out research and public education about selected issues related to the rebuilding of Afghanistan's institutions, society, and economy. The project supports efforts by the Afghan government, Afghan civil society, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, and donors to carry out a more effective reconstruction mission based on the Bonn Agreement focused on Afghan ownership. NEW
"Afghanistan 2005 and Beyond: Prospects for Improved Stability Reference Document" NEW
"Crafting a Constitution for
Afghanistan" NEW
"Road to Ruin: Afghanistan’s
Booming Opium Industry" NEW
"Afghanistan Counter
Narcotics Seminar" Presentation NEW
Article in the International
Herald Tribune,"Let
the Afghans vote when they're ready" NEW
Feasibility Study for
the Cultivation and Processing of Flavor and Fragrance Industry Crops
in Afghanistan
NEW Afghanistan: The Cost of Doing Too Little, A joint CIC/CARE Policy Brief, prepared for "Securing Afghanistan's Future" conference, Berlin-Germany, March 2004. NEW Geothermal Energy in Afghanistan: Prospects and Potential
Briefing
on Security in Afghanistan LEGAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL AFFAIRS Assistance to the Constitutional Commission ARP has commissioned options papers on constitutional questions from scholars around the world. Authors have come from Kenya, Eritrea, Brazil, Iran, Egypt, Australia, France, and the US. Topics have included: form of government and electoral system, including measures to assure representation of women; role of Islam and sectarian jurisprudence in the constitution; women's rights in Islam; federalism, centralization, or devolution of government powers; anti-corruption measures; states of emergency; constitutional court and judicial review; economic issues in a constitution; and constitution making processes. ARP has translated these articles into Dari and Pashto and is posting them on the worldwide web in all three languages. Visit the Afghan Constitution Resource Page. On February 21-22, 2002, the ARP organized a meeting at the UN office in Geneva of Afghan and international legal professionals to consider draft texts on a number of issues, including: law for foreign investment; regulation of non-governmental organizations (NGOs); citizenship laws; rights, preamble, and women's rights in a new constitution; the role of Islam and sharia in a new constitution; corruption; centralization and de-centralization of government functions; and others.
In addition to the
work done at the LAWG meeting, ARP provided UNAMA and the interim administration
with drafts of NGO regulations from various sources for consideration
as the government elaborated its policy framework. ARP subsidized the
participation of two lawyers from the International
Center for Non-Profit Law, one of them an Afghan refugee in the US,
in a major conference in Kabul on the drafting of new legislation for
NGOs Presentation to Constitutional Commission
of Afghanistan Afghanistan
Update 4/30/02 The
Constitution-Making Process in Afghanistan Legal
Affairs Working Group Meeting Though this was one of the topics discussed by LAWG, ARP decided that it required a separate, in-depth study. ARP conducted field research in 2002 in Kabul, Qandahar, Herat, Jalalabad, and Bamiyan. This resulted in a report in English and Dari. In preparation for a World Bank workshop on reform of the Ministry of Finance, ARP wrote a paper based on the ARP research on the politics of center-periphery. Center-Periphery
Relations in the Afghan State: Current Practices, Future Prospects,
The
Politics of Center-Periphery Relations in Afghanistan Assessing subnational
Adminstration in Afghanistan: A Guide to Government
Functioning Outside of Kabul: Early in 2002, CIC/ARP began monitoring pledges and flows of assistance to Afghanistan. Using a methodology that CIC had developed in its project, Pledges of Aid, ARP developed a matrix for aid tracking by donor, sector, and status of funds. ARP's model assisted in the design of the official tracking mechanism, a joint effort of UNDP and AACA. Click here to see ARP "s matrix of Afghanistan aid resource flows and activities for year one of the recovery effort (October 2001 - September 2002). ARP has continued to track aid flows to Afghanistan as the recovery effort NEW
"Road to Ruin: Afghanistan’s
Booming Opium Industry" NEW
"Afghanistan Counter
Narcotics Seminar" Presentation NEW Afghanistan: The Cost of Doing Too Little, A joint CIC/CARE Policy Brief, prepared for "Securing Afghaninstan's Future" conference, Berlin-Germany, March 2004. Click here to see
a bar chart comparing needs, pledges, disbursements, and reconstruction
activities underway as of Winter 2003 Good
Intentions Will Not Pave the Road to Peace, Joint Center on
International Cooperation and CARE policy brief, September 15, 2003 Flowers
for Afghanistan Institutional
Framework for Flower "Through the Fog of Peacebuilding:
Evaluating the Reconstruction of Afghanistan" Afghanistan
and Threats to Human Security Geothermal
Energy in Afghanistan: Prospects and Potential ARP, together with
CIC's project on Regional Conflict Formations, the Turkish Foundation
on Social and Economic Research, and the Conflict Prevention and Peace
Forum held a conference near Istanbul in June 2002 to discuss regional
peace building. CIC published an article on this subject in the World
Policy Journal (on website). Regional
Approaches to the Reconstruction of Afghanistan Regional
Issues in the Reconstruction of Afghanistan Assessing
Change in Southern Central Asia Regional Conflict Post September 11th Diplomatic
Showdown ARP director Rubin addressed these issues in a speech on "Transitional Justice in Afghanistan" at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University College, London, on February 3, 2003. A revised text of the speech is being published in International Affairs, journal of the Royal Institute of International Affairs, London. NEW
"Road to Ruin: Afghanistan’s
Booming Opium Industry" NEW
"Afghanistan Counter
Narcotics Seminar" Presentation Briefing
on Security in Afghanistan Afghanistan
and Threats to Human Security Security
and Political Change Identifying
Options and Entry Points for Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration
in Afghanistan Transitional
Justice in Afghanistan Putting
an End to Warlord Government 1/15/02 Urban planning and the prevention of the growth of shantytowns is a priority issue, given the speed of refugee return. ARP organized a meeting on the subject with architects and planners working on Kabul, Curitiba, Beirut, Mostar, and other post-conflict cities in London on February 25-26, 2002. The
Reconstruction of Kabul ARP staff have addressed a special meeting of the UN General Assembly, private lunches with key UN ambassadors and staff, a UNFPA conference, UNIFEM, UNAMA (on several occasions), the State Department, the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, UK FCO conferences at Wilton Park, the Implementation Group in Kabul, the Open Society Institute, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Asia Society, the World Affairs Council of Northern California, many universities in several countries, including Kabul university, where Rubin was the first international scholar to give a lecture after the fall of the Taliban, and many conferences, in Norway, Japan, Afghanistan, Rome, London, Berlin, Bonn, and elsewhere. ARP staff have published in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal, appeared on CNN and ABC News, helped CBS News prepare an influential segment on warlordism for 60 Minutes, and given frequent interviews on the BBC, VOA, National Public Radio, and elsewhere. ARP also maintains a listserv with over 200 subscribers, to whom it distributes key documents, news reports, research, and other materials on a daily basis. These subscribers are around the world, many of them inside Afghanistan. NEW
The Wall Street Journal,
"War on Drugs, or War on Farmers?" NEW
The
International Herald Tribune, “Afghanistan’s Fatal Addiction” The International Herald Tribune: In Kabul, The government owns the peace (Re)
Building Afghanistan: The Folly of Stateless Democracy The
Wall Street Journal, "Afghan Dispatch" The International Herald Tribune, "The Flash Point Where Afghanistan Meets Pakistan" Edited Transcript of Remarks Delivered at Seminar Sponsopred by the Swedish Committee of Afghanistan, Stockholm, Riksdagshuset, Riksplan Statement by Barnett R. Rubin Diplomatic
Showdown Afghanistan
Update 4/30/02 Is America Abandoning Afghanistan? 4/10/02 Afghanistan and Threats to Human Security Putting an End to Warlord Government 1/15/02 |
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The Afghanistan Reconstruction Project (ARP) carries out research and public education about selected issues related to the rebuilding of Afghanistan 's institutions, society, and economy. The project supports efforts by the Afghan government, Afghan civil society, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan , and donors to carry out a more effective reconstruction mission.
The Wrong Voting System by Barnett R. Rubin, March 16, 2005 Afghanistan 2005 and Beyond: Prospects for Improved Stability February 23, 2005 “A War on Drugs or a War on Farmers?” -Wall Street Journal, January 11, 2005 A War on Drugs, Or a War on Farmers? by Barnett R. Rubin and Omar Zakhilwal, January 11, 2005“Crafting a Constitution for Afghanistan” -Journal Democracy July 2004 “Let the Afghans Vote When They’re Ready” -Herald Tribune June 14, 2004 Diplomatic Showdown Simmering Tensions Between India and Pakistan Threaten the Entire Region, Analysis by Barnett R. Rubin for abcNews.com, archived from June 2004 “ Afghanistan : The Cost of Doing Too Little” in cooperation with CARE, March 2004 “The Flash Point Where Afghanistan Meets Pakistan” -The International Herald Tribune, January 12, 2004 “Building a New Afghanistan : The Value of Success, the Cost of Failure” Paying for Essentials Policy Paper Series “Road to Ruin: Afghanistan ’s Booming Opium Industry” in cooperation with the Center for American Progress Regional Issues in the Reconstruction of Afghanistan by Barnett R. Rubin and Andrea Armstrong Reprinted from World Policy Journal, vol. XX, no. 1 (spring 2003). For further information about the journal see www.worldpolicy.org Transitional Justice in Afghanistan by Barnett R. Rubin, London, February 3, 2003 The Need for State Building in Afghanistan by Barnett R.Rubin to the Implementation Group, Kabul, October 12, 2002 Regional Approaches to the Reconstruction of Afghanistan Summary of Istanbul Meeting, June 2002 Afghanistan Update 4/30/02 by Barnett Rubin at the Open Society Institute ArchivesIs America Abandoning Afghanistan? 4/10/02 by Barnett Rubin, New York Times Op-Ed The Reconstruction of Kabul Report of London Meeting, February 25-27, 2002 Afghanistan and Threats to Human Security by Barnett Rubin, Director of Studies, Center on International Cooperation Putting an End to Warlord Government 1/15/02 by Barnett Rubin
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