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... Afghanistan: Reconciliation plans, tribal leaders and civil society by Thomas Kirk ... of understanding Afghanistan's social context and ordinary Afghan's opinions" when he himself may belie a lack of knowledge therein. For ...

Journal Article - Jan 4 2011 - 12:28pm - 10 comments

... This paper presents a scenario for resolution of the Afghan conflict in a manner that achieves U.S. objectives in Afghanistan. This ... Northern Alliance based government. This is the target of Reconciliation, and if the ISSUES (not the men or groups) driving this ...

Journal Article - Dec 2 2010 - 11:22pm - 120 comments

... on March 11 in Panjwai, near Kandahar, that left 16 Afghan civilians dead. The alleged shooter, a 38-year-old U.S. Army staff ... defeat; he also knew that any compromise in the name of reconciliation would be taken as a sign of future withdrawal. He was right, of ...

Blog post - Mar 16 2012 - 6:21pm - 44 comments - 0 attachments

... exercised near-genocidal levels of violence against the Afghan population, as did the Nazis in occupied Russia. Neither was attempting ... lot of Catholics in Ireland stopped fighting because of a reconciliation process. That process was in part brought about by events like ...

Blog post - Jul 5 2011 - 9:00am - 98 comments - 0 attachments

... Background Assuring security in Afghan local communities has been one of the top priorities of the ... Following to the unsuccessful paramilitarisation efforts under the names of Afghan National Auxiliary Police (ANAP) in 2006 and ... and refusal to truly seek reasonable compromise and reconciliation with the other half of Afghan society. Such refusal can only ...

Journal Article - May 18 2012 - 4:49am - 6 comments

... TB. Currently, I serve as a Mentor/Advisor to the Afghan National Police. I work on with the police on security side of COIN ... but ineffective in moves towards accommodation and reconciliation. But then again, so will anything else. I argue that in ...

Journal Article - Jan 27 2012 - 5:53am - 44 comments

... controlled, no matter how many Afghans you bribe into the Afghan Peace-through-Reintegration program (another reincarnation of failed DDR ... in Kabul. That can be resolved through compromise and reconciliation, or by the prevailing of one over the other on their own two ...

Journal Article - Mar 12 2012 - 5:02am - 24 comments

... silly. Our way of life is American... not Iraqi, Egyptian, Afghan, etc, etc, etc... ... but then... what do I know... I am not a ... be subjugated to efforts that focus on identification and reconciliation of the principle issues of the Taliban and the subsuquent ...

Blog post - Feb 4 2011 - 5:19pm - 90 comments - 0 attachments

... Treaty Organization (NATO) allies, and the newly minted Afghan National Army (ANA) to drive the Taliban out of the area and bring in ... to work on structure, the overiding grievances, conflict reconciliation, and the mending of the hearts, minds, and souls to rebuild the ...

Blog post - Jul 25 2010 - 4:27am - 47 comments - 0 attachments

... with U.S. troops in Afghanistan, and the other an Afghan citizen who taught Afghan Culture and Language Studies to Coalition ... to define and implement terms of the reintegration and reconciliation of insurgents in a new and evolving security, governance, and ...

Journal Article - Apr 23 2012 - 4:42am - 3 comments