The Afghan Local Police – Closing the Security Gap?

Vincent, Sam; Weigand, Florian; Hakimi, Hameed

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“…In the security sector, rather than considering how best to protect civilians, a focus on winning the war still prevailed. The US introduced the 'Afghan Local Police' (ALP) in 2010 that, contrary to its name, was not responsible for law enforcement, but for conducting counter-insurgency operations [33]. As the National Security and Defence Forces were unable to provide security on local level in the countryside, the ALP was created to help villages to protect themselves against insurgents.…”

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Why Did the Taliban Win (Again) in Afghanistan?

Weigand

Cox²

2022

LSE Public Policy Review

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The paper explores the long-term developments and dynamics in Afghanistan, which enabled the Taliban to capture the state in August 2021. It suggests that the Taliban's success was enabled by the failure of the international intervention to build legitimate authority in Afghanistan. Three factors contributed to this failure: First, different actors that were part of the intervention in the country pursued competing agendas, especially with the 'War on Terror' undermining human rights and state-building. Second, a gap between the Afghan internationally supported state and its citizens evolved and grew larger over time, especially due to the risk mitigation measures applied. Third, day-today interactions that ordinary people in Afghanistan had with the state were often perceived as corrupt and extractive, making it difficult for the state to convey that it was working in the interest of its citizens.

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Why Did the Taliban Win (Again) in Afghanistan?

Weigand

Cox²

2022

LSE Public Policy Review

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“…There was a grey zone between policing, counter-insurgency, and institution building, and institutions were not always designed for the relevant situation. At times, police forces became synonymous with forces doing counterinsurgency and were too lightly armed and too numerically weak at a local level to survive the pressure from non-state armed groups; at other times, police forces were hijacked by local power-holders [23].…”

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Striving for the Impossible? Policing and Territoriality in the Age of the War on Terror

Hansen

2020

Journal of Human Security

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This article asks how variations of state territorial control have influenced police missions in the recent past, and illustrate how recent police reforms were based on the structure of a 'western' type state with clearly identifiable formal state institutions enjoying autonomy, that strive for a form of territorial monopoly over violence. The article argues for moving beyond such assumptions by adopting scenarios based on how territory is controlled, developing four scenarios that can enable foreign-backed police missions to adapt to local circumstances. The article draws upon the typology of territorial control developed by Hansen in 2017/2019, amending this model to be adapted for policing. It argues that each of these scenarios require different strategies and compromises in order to create functioning police forces.

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Producing ‘responsible’ self-governance: counterinsurgency and the violence of neoliberal rule

Kienscherf

2016

Critical Military Studies

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The Afghan Local Police – Closing the Security Gap?

Cited by 3 publications

References 29 publications

Why Did the Taliban Win (Again) in Afghanistan?

Why Did the Taliban Win (Again) in Afghanistan?

Striving for the Impossible? Policing and Territoriality in the Age of the War on Terror

Producing ‘responsible’ self-governance: counterinsurgency and the violence of neoliberal rule

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