Negotiation: By, With, and Through the Afghan People
Negotiation: By, With, and Through the Afghan People
by Tim Mathews
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This submission is offered at this time to coincide with the upcoming panel discussion at the United States Institute of Peace, titled, Making Peace in Afghanistan: the Missing Political Strategy. The goal is to spur discussion and raise issues that have been absent in recent debates surrounding the prospects of a negotiated solution in Afghanistan. It does not offer definitive answers or advocate for a specific policy. Rather, the intent is to influence the debate by causing people to rethink assumptions about the appropriate actors to be involved in negotiations and consider how best to engage those actors.
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Tim Mathews is a former US Army Infantry Officer, commissioned in 1999 at Marion Military Institute. He served on multiple deployments to Bosnia-Herzegovina and Iraq. Since separating from the Active Army in 2008, he has earned a Master of Business Administration from George Washington University and he is a Juris Doctor candidate in the class of 2011 at the University of Maine School of Law.
