Special Report
March 2003

Afghanistan:
Between War and Reconstruction:
Where Do We Go From Here?

By Mark Sedra

SRafghan.pdf (157 kb)

• Political Recommendations
• Economic Recommendations
• Military Recommendations
• Conclusions
  
  
• Box 1: Warlords of Two Kinds
  
  
• Endnotes

Endnotes

1. Mark Sedra, Challenging the Warlord Culture: Security Sector Reform in Post-Taliban Afghanistan, (Bonn: BICC, November 2002), 1-5.
2. Stephen John Stedman, “Spoiler Problems in Peace Processes,” in International Security 22 (fall 1997): 2, 5-53.
3. Mark Kennedy, “18 Afghan Rebels Die in Clash With U.S.,” Associated Press (AP), 28 January 2003. www.yahoo.com.
4. Ahmed Rashid, “Dangerous Neighbors,” Far Eastern Economic Review, 9 January 2003, 28.
5. Rashid, 28-9.
6. CARE International, A New Year’s Resolution to Keep: Secure a Lasting Peace in Afghanistan, (CARE International, 13 January 2003), 3.
7. CARE International, 3.
8. Integrated Regional Information Network (IRIN), “Focus on Poppy Eradication,” IRIN, 21 January 2003, www.irinnews.org.
9. Anthony Davis, “Afghanistan’s opium production rises post-Taliban,” Jane’s Intelligence Review (December 2003), 28-29.
10. Davis, 28-9.
11. IRIN, 21 January 2003.
12. Integrated Regional Information Network (IRIN), “UK Customs Officers Join Drugs Fight,” IRIN, 12 December 2002, www.irinnews.org.
13. United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Judicial Reform Commission Starts Up With Support From UNDP, December 2002, www.undp.org.
14. International Crisis Group (ICG), ICG Asia Report no. 45, Afghanistan: Judicial Reform and Transitional Justice, (Afghanistan/Brussels: ICG, 28 January 2003), i-iii.
15. Ahmed Rashid, “Civil Society Returns to Herat,” EurasiaNet, 16 May 2002, www.eurasianet.org.
16. Rashid, 16 May 2002.
17. Sedra, 24.
18. CARE International, Rebuilding Afghanistan: A Little Less Talk, a Lot More Action, (CARE International, 1 October 2002), 3.
19. David Rohde, “G.I.’s Walk Perilous Line Between Finding Enemy and Alienating Afghans” New York Times on the Web, 7 December 2002, www.nytimes.com.
20. CARE International, 1 October 2002, 8.
21. Walter Gibbs, “Donor Group Gives Karzai Control of Aid,” New York Times on the Web, 18 December 2002, www.nytimes.com.
22. Associated Press, “Germany Wants Greater NATO Role in Kabul,” ABC News, 8 February 2003, www.abcnews.go.com.
23. Carlotta Gall, “Warlord Is Said to Be Ready to End Standoff With Kabul,” New York Times on the Web, 19 January 2003, www.nytimes.com.
24. Integrated Regional Information Network (IRIN), “Poor Security in the Southeast Hampers Humanitarian Aid,” IRIN, 7 February 2003, www.irinnews.org.