This document has been producedwith the financial assistance of the european union. Relation of afghan government income, international aid and drugs 21. Village institutions and state interference christine noellekarimi 39 4. Ethnicity and the political reconstruction in afghanistan conrad schetter center for development studies zef, university of bonn, germany 1. Afghanistan citizens charter afghanistan project english. Centreperiphery relations in afghanistanazitshahranin 23 3. Ethnicity and the political reconstruction in afghanistan.
Building in afghanistan and somaliland request pdf. Geologic map of quadrangle 3566, sangcharak 501 and sayghanokamard 502 quadrangles, afghanistan compiled by kenzie j. Maps provided by the afghan government or the united nations. Local politics in afghanistan should do for the microstudy of afghanistan what decoding the new taliban did for taliban studies. Afghanistan map map of afghanistan, afghanistan outline map. Conrad schetter, ethnicity and the political reconstruction of afghanistan, center for development studies zef university of bonn, germany, working paper 3, 2004.
Summary based on research in kunduz, a province in northeast afghanistan, this. I have been working on peacebuilding in afghanistan which, according to susan. The attacks on the world trade center and the pentagon on september 11, 2001 instantly focused international attention on afghanistan. Ethnicity and the political reconstruction of afghanistan. Conrad studied at the university of bonn and worked at the center for development research. The terrain of afghanistan is dominated by rugged mountain ranges, which generally run from the northeast to the southwest.
The uk increased its troop commitment, adding 100 additional forces in july 2016. Part of the family moved from lower dir to the neighbouring district of. Conrad schetter e t h n i c i t y in the afghan conflict. Agnew, mapping political power beyond state boundaries. Afghanistanconflict analysedesk study ziviler friedensdienst. Conrad schetter ethnicity and the political reconstruction in. It shows how the taliban gained ground in local politics by a divide et impera rule and by using the network of religious representatives mullahs, mawlawis, etc. Library of congress federal research division country profile. Geologic map of quadrangle 3566, sangcharak 501 and.
Afghanistans crossborder trade with pakistan and iran and. Policies, practices and outcomes of demandoriented community. The geographical area of study of the competence network extends from eastern iran to western china and from the aral sea to northern india. Best englishlanguage coverage, produced by us military, but often out of stock. On the one hand, the relations that involve the most compelling duties are also those that can lead to the most serious conflicts. The development objective for the citizens charter afghanistan project is to improve the delivery of core infrastructure and social services to participating communities through strengthened community development councils cdcs. On the other hand, there are bonds of trust and cooperation, solidarity and. Slide 1, country outline map labeled with capital and major cities. Currently, afghanistan s imports excluding military imports are ten times higher than its exports giroa, 2017, p. The exact number of speakers is unavailable, but different estimates show that pashto is the mother tongue of 4560% of the total population of afghanistan.
Konfliktregion persischer golf, 19 quellen im literaturverzeichnis, sprache. Pashtun peoples are the largest ethnic group in the south of the country, while tajiks and uzbeks are concentrated along the norther borders, and the hazara in the central highlands. Free afghanistan editable map free powerpoint templates. Afghanistan in red, known as the center or the heart of asia, surounded by east, south west and central or north asia general maps of afghanistan edit cia map of afghanistan in english. The pashtun tribal system artikel 2002 pdf 103 kb conrad schetter. The ethnonym afghan afgan has been used in the past to denote a member of the pashtuns, and that usage still persists in some places in afghanistan. Currently, afghanistans imports excluding military imports are ten times higher than its exports giroa, 2017, p. Afghanistan, center for development studies zef university of bonn, germany, working paper 3. Conrad schetter ethnicity and the political reconstruction.
Suddenly, we were confronted with the need to understand how and why social and political circumstances in that country could be diametrically opposed to the values and norms commonly associated with modern states and civil society. In the political process, ethnic categories were understood as key building blocks of afghan society. From the nineteenth century to today, afghanistan has contended with relentless foreign interventions and domestic political failures. How the mcdonaldization of statebuilding misses the mark in. Afghanistan at current levels of 850, 760, an d 500 troops, respectively, after 2016.
Schetter s edited volume is an engaging set of essays on the dynamics of the local level of activity and how this intersects with other agendas whether imposed from outside by foreignersinternationals or from the afghan government itself. Some of the countries with a theocratic government include yemen, vatican city, sudan, and mauritania. Recommendantions for reconstruction and peace making in afghanistan. Publications friedrichebertstiftung afghanistan office. Impunity, militias, and the afghan local police hrw. External powers such as british india, the soviet union, pakistan, and nato have egregiously interfered in local affairs, and various afghan governments, whether monarchical, communist, islamist, and ostensibly democratic, have meddled disastrously with. Afghanistan citizens charter afghanistan project english abstract. Geospatial reference datasets usgs projects in afghanistan. Download publication 510 kb, pdf file peace and conflict impact assessment prepared as part of a pilot project organised by the friedrichebertstiftung fes at the fes topic centre for civil conflict management islamabad in cooperation with the fes office in afghanistan.
In an interview with hans dembowski, conrad schetter, an expert on afghanistan at bonns centre for development research, discussed why development efforts have not borne more fruit. The scroll speed, either with edge panning or arrow keyswasd is unbearably slow. It shows that afghans move in a number of social spaces that overlap but do not fit together exactly. How war map template work with other parts of wikipedia. Afghanistan is a landlocked country located within south asia and central asia. This chapter discusses how the taliban dealt with local politics during the last two decades. The map of afghanistan template includes two slides. Afghanistan is a favorite destination in centralasia for those who enjoy adventurous traveling. Kyrgyzstan, uzbekistan and tajikstan, the country is a backdrop of dramatic mountain scenery, where the unparalleled hospitality of its people render the stay all. Jun 02, 2016 afghanistan outline map labeled with kabul, herat, jalalabad, mazarisharif, ghazni, and kandahar cities. Conrad schetter is a senior research fellow at the center for development research. Schetter, conrad, rainer glassner, and masood karokhail. Instead of making progress, afghanistan seems to have sunk ever deeper into civil war since then. Mountains occupy all but the northcentral and southwestern regions of the country, which are dominated by plains.
Conrad schetter, ethnicity and the political reconstruction of afghanistan, center for development studies zef. This map partially depicts areas of taliban control and support and isis presence across afghanistan as of december 10, 2015 as well as the status of district centers that have been attacked by taliban militants in 2015. He has written and published widely on ethnicity and ethnic conflict in afghanistan. Isw will update this map as ground conditions change and as analysts continue to assess support zones. The merriamwebster english dictionary defines a militia simply as a body of citizens organized for military service. Look at some of the recent projects we have completed. Afghanistans crossborder trade with pakistan and iran. Map of the situation in afghanistan in august 2001 until october 2001 the taliban started shelling kabul in early 1995 but were defeated by forces of the islamic state government under ahmad shah massoud.
Conrad schetter, director of research, bonn international center for conversion. Habilitation 2009 conrad studied at the university of bonn and worked at the center for development research zef of the university of bonn from 1999 to 20, where his most recent position was that of acting director and where he still is associated member of the zef directorate. Massoud red, dostum green and taliban yellow territories. Publication of the zefproject social management of water in afghanistan in cooperation with deutsche welthungerhilfegerman agro action funded by the european community grant contract food2005108700.
Thus since the outbreak of the afghan war 1979 various political actors have. Civilmilitary nexus, politics of interventions, local politics. Conrad schetter, rainer glassner, masood karokhail. Afghanistan outline map labeled with kabul, herat, jalalabad, mazarisharif, ghazni, and kandahar cities. This chapter examines the role of trust, friendship, and cooperation in afghan society. The panoramic satellite map represents one of many map types and styles available. The exact number of speakers is unavailable, but different estimates show that pashto is the mother tongue of. Understanding local violencesecurity arrangements in kandahar, kunduz and paktia afghanistan. Conrad schetter bonn international center for conversion. Landlocked between china, iran, pakistan and three of the new central asian republics.
Introduction when it comes to the meaning of ethnicity concerning the current afghan war different opinions collide. Continuous translocal migration of afghans into neighbouring states and the gulf. Conrad schetter is a research fellow at the center for development research, university of bonn, germany. Because each of our afghanistan digital maps is available in the adobe illustrator or editable pdf format, both of which use a vector based approach to displaying images, you can easily zoom into any portion of our maps without any degradation in the quality of the text, lines and symbols of the map regardless of the magnification factor. Afghanistans people have contended with an almost continuous series of foreign interventions in their local affairs in the nineteenth. On the ethnicization of afghan politics schetter, conrad 20161201 00. Detailed clear large road map of afghanistan ezilon maps. Policy congressional research service 1 background afghanistan has a history of a high degree of decentralization, and resistance to foreign invasion and occupation. The above documentation is transcluded from template. Asqalan main canal, a map of which is provided in figure 2.
Baker, stratfor national geographic maps 0 mi 0 km 200 200 bandi amir lakes tajik 85% pashtun 10% hazara 2% uzbek 2% turkmen 1% tajik 60% hazara 10% pashtun 10% turkmen 10% uzbek 10% tajik 45% hazara 25% pashtun 25% uzbek 2% turkmen 1% hindu 1% pashtun 70% tajik 20% hazara 6%. Studienarbeit aus dem jahr 2004 im fachbereich politik internationale politik region. Map scroll speed afghanistan 11 general discussions. Turner prepared in cooperation with the afghan geological survey and the afghanistan geodesy and cartography head office under the auspices of the u. At the same time, afghanistans natural resources are being degraded as immediate needs, ongoing conflict, internal displacement, high rates of population growth, low levels of education, and poverty, result in a prioritization of survival over the longerterm sustainability of natural resource use and. As a national language of afghanistan, pashto is primarily spoken in the east, south, and southwest, but also in some northern and western parts of the country. Trust, friendship and transversal ties of cooperation among. Local perceptions and development approaches in kunduz province. Crossroads asia the scholars collaborating in the competence network crossroads asia pursue a novel, postarea studies approach, making thematic figurations the basis of their scholarly research. Fischer who categorise the afghan conflict as an ethnic one. Afghanistan russian geology, database and support documents for 1.