Beyond the Taliban? The Afghan conflict and United Nations peacemaking

Fielden, M; Goodhand, Jonathan

doi:10.1080/14678800100590617

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“…Conversely, political parties in Pakistan and Iran interceded as logistical conduits between the local resistance commanders and 'fronts' in Afghanistan. Western aid fostered a new leadership, with the emergence of commanders and the demise of the country's intelligentsia and local khans (Fielden and Goodhand, 2001). The system of brokerage that developed around the arms pipeline laid the foundations for the regionalized war economy that was to emerge in the 1990s.…”

Section: Pdpa Regime: a State Under Siegementioning

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Try Again, Fail Again, Fail Better? War, the State, and the ‘Post–Conflict’ Challenge in Afghanistan

Cramer

Goodhand

2002

Development and Change

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This article investigates the challenges currently facing Afghanistan. It argues that 'post-conflict' peace and reconstruction in Afghanistan may depend on a dramatic expansion of institutionalized economic interdependence: this will not necessarily require obeisance to standard international policy paradigms and it will have to draw on existing patterns of interdependence, even though many of these are rooted in brutally exploitative war economy conditions. The authors argue further that neither peace nor economic development will hold without a centralized, credible and effective state, that the emergence of such a state is a political problem more than a technical problem, and that it will depend on a monopolization of force by the state. Such developments cannot be envisaged without policy being based on a close reading of the long and decidedly non-linear, conflictual experiences in state formation and failure in Afghanistan, a history whose patterns and implications are summarized in this article.

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Section: Pdpa Regime: a State Under Siegementioning

confidence: 99%

“…This was again reversed with the removal of the Taliban who were replaced by a United Front dominated interim authority. While the origin of the war may not be ethnic, the politicization of ethnicity has had a corrosive effect on the potential for national reconciliation (Fielden and Goodhand, 2001).…”

Section: Tribalismmentioning

confidence: 99%